The Woady Yaloak River
is a
perennial river
A perennial stream is a stream that has continuous flow of surface water throughout the year in at least parts of its catchment during seasons of normal rainfall, Water Supply Paper 494. as opposed to one whose flow is intermittent. In the abse ...
of the
Corangamite catchment, located in the
Western District Lakes
The Western District Lakes of Victoria, in the Western District of Victoria, south-eastern Australia, were recognised on 15 December 1982 as wetlands of international importance by listing under the Ramsar Convention, as Ramsar site no.268.
D ...
region of the
Australian state of
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
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* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
.
Location and features
The Woady Yaloak River rises below Black Hill, west of
Ballarat and flows generally south joined by three minor tributaries through the towns of , and before reaching its
river mouth and emptying into Lake Martin and then
Lake Corangamite
Lake Corangamite , a hypersaline endorheic lake, is located near Colac in the Lakes and Craters region of the Victorian Volcanic Plains of south-west Victoria, Australia. The lake's salinity levels have increased dramatically as the lake level ...
. From its highest point, the river descends over its
meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ...
ing
course.
[
The river is crossed by the ]Glenelg Highway
Glenelg Highway is a rural highway in south-eastern Australia, linking Mount Gambier with Ballarat. Most of the highway is located within the Western part of the state of Victoria, though a short, 15 km stretch from the South Australia/V ...
west of Scarsdale and the Hamilton Highway
Hamilton Highway is a rural highway in western Victoria, Australia, linking Geelong and the town of Hamilton, through the localities of Inverleigh, Cressy, Lismore, Derrinallum, Darlington, Mortlake, and Penshurst. Glenelg Highway links Ha ...
at Cressy, and McMillans Bridge
McMillans Bridge, is a riveted wrought iron open web truss bridge, located over the Woady Yaloak River on the Rokewood-Skipton Road between Rokewood and Werneth, Victoria, Werneth on a historical route between Geelong and the 1850s goldfields at ...
on the Rokewood-Skipton Road between Rokewood and Werneth.
Etymology
In the Aboriginal Australian Wathawurrung language
Wadawurrung, also rendered as Wathawurrung, Wathaurong or Wada wurrung, and formerly sometimes Barrabool, is the Aboriginal Australian language spoken by the Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nation of Central Victoria. It was spoken by 15 clans ...
different sections of the river are given two names, ''Wurdi-yaluk'' or sometimes ''Wurdi-yaluk gundidj'', meaning "big creek";[ and ''Currarerer'', with no defined meaning.][ Variations on the spelling of the river's name have included ''Wandinyallock'', ''Wardiyallock'' and ''Worriyallock''.
]
See also
*
References
External links
*
Corangamite catchment
Rivers of Barwon South West (region)
Rivers of Grampians (region)
Colac, Victoria
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