Anglesea River Explained

Anglesea
Native Name:[1]
Name Other:Deep Gully, Marshy Creek, Salt Gully[2]
Name Etymology:After Anglesey, an island in Wales.
Map Size:250
Pushpin Map:Australia Victoria
Pushpin Map Size:250
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the Anglesea River mouth in Victoria
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Australia
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Victoria
Subdivision Type3:Region
Subdivision Name3:South East Coastal Plain (IBRA), The Otways
Subdivision Type5:Local government area
Subdivision Name5:Surf Coast Shire
Source1:Otway Ranges
Source1 Location:east of
Source1 Coordinates:-38.3956°N 144.1831°W
Mouth:Bass Strait
Mouth Coordinates:-38.4153°N 144.1931°W
Mouth Elevation:0m (00feet)
River System:Corangamite catchment
Custom Label:National park
Custom Data:Great Otway National Park

The Anglesea River is a perennial river of the Corangamite catchment, located in the Otways region of the Australian state of Victoria.

Location and features

The Anglesea River rises in the Otway Ranges east of and flows generally east by south before reaching its mouth and emptying into Bass Strait near the town of the same name.

Etymology

In the Aboriginal Australian Wathawurrung language the name for the river is Kuarka-dorla, meaning "place to catch mullet".[1]

The river was named after Anglesey, an island in Wales.[3] [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anglesea River: 2671 . Vicnames . . 12 August 2011 . 9 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140512230950/https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=2671 . 12 May 2014 .
  2. Web site: Anglesea River: 2671 . Vicnames . . 2 May 1966 . 9 May 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140512213956/https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/place.html?method=edit&id=9420 . 12 May 2014 .
  3. Book: Blake, Les. Place names of Victoria. Adelaide. Rigby. 1977. 294. 0-7270-0250-3.
  4. Web site: Bird . Eric . 12 October 2006 . Place Names on the Coast of Victoria . The Australian National Placename Survey (ANPS) . PDF . https://web.archive.org/web/20110218121208/http://www.anps.org.au/documents/VIC_coastal.pdf . 18 February 2011 . dead . dmy .