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Yea River

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- location
  
below Mount Tanglefoot

- location
  
northwest of Yea

Source
  
Great Dividing Range

Country
  
Australia

- elevation
  
566 m (1,857 ft)

- elevation
  
162 m (531 ft)

Mouth
  
Goulburn River

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- left
  
Captain Creek, Rocky Creek (Victoria), Rellimeiggam Creek, Ti Tree Creek

- right
  
Katy Creek, Murrindindi River

Towns
  
Toolangi, Castella, Glenburn, Yea

The Yea River, an inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower South Eastern Highlands bioregion and Northern Country/North Central regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

Contents

Map of Yea River, Victoria, Australia

Location and featuresEdit

The Yea River rises in the Toolangi State Forest north-east of Toolangi and northwest of Mount Tanglefoot, part of the Great Dividing Range. The river generally flows in a northerly direction, generally aligned with the Melba Highway which crosses the river in its lower reaches. The river is joined by six tributaries including the Murrindindi River, flows east and north of the town of Yea before reaching its confluence with the Goulburn River, near Ghin Ghin Bridge. The river descends 403 metres (1,322 ft) over its 74-kilometre (46 mi) course.

The river is also crossed by the Goulburn Valley Highway, east of Yea.

EtymologyEdit

The suspected Aboriginal Taungurong language name for the river was Kayigai, with no clearly defined meaning. A surveyor's map of circa 1860 gives Kayigai or Muddy Creek, so it is likely that was the Aboriginal name of the river.

The river was originally called Muddy Creek in 1824 by explorers Hume and Hovell because of its muddy banks. The river was renamed when or soon after the town of Muddy Creek was renamed Yea. The river, like the town is named in honour of Colonel Lacy Walter Yea – a British Army colonel killed during the Crimean War in 1855, the year that Yea was founded.

References

Yea River Wikipedia