| Goulburn River | |
| Name Other: | Reedy Creek |
| Name Etymology: | In honour of Henry Goulburn[1] |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Australia |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name2: | New South Wales |
| Subdivision Type3: | Region |
| Subdivision Name3: | NSW North Coast (IBRA), Upper Hunter |
| Subdivision Type5: | Local government area |
| Subdivision Name5: | Mid-Western Regional |
| Length: | 221km (137miles) |
| Source1: | Great Dividing Range |
| Source Confluence: | Moolarben Creek and Sportsmans Hollow Creek |
| Source Confluence Location: | near Ulan |
| Source Confluence Elevation: | 434m (1,424feet) |
| Mouth: | confluence with the Hunter River |
| Mouth Location: | south Denman |
| Mouth Elevation: | 97m (318feet) |
| River System: | Hunter River catchment |
| Tributaries Left: | Munmurra River, Krui River, Poggy Creek, Tunbridge Creek, Bow River, Merriwa River, Eckfords Creek, Worondi Rivulet, Giants Creek, Wybong Creek |
| Tributaries Right: | Wollar Creek, Rocky Creek (New South Wales), Bylong River, Mount Misery Creek, Honeysuckle Creek (New South Wales), Kerrabee Creek, Quarry Creek, Widden Brook, Baerami Creek, Kings Creek (New South Wales) |
| Custom Label: | National parks |
| Custom Data: | Goulburn River NP |
| Extra: | [2] |
Goulburn River, a perennial river of the Hunter River catchment, is located in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.
Goulburn River rises at the confluence of Moolarben Creek and Sportsmans Hollow Creek, on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near the village of Ulan, east of Mudgee and flows generally eastward, joined by twenty-one tributaries including the Munmurra, Krui, Bylong, Bow, and Merriwa rivers and Worondi Rivulet. The river reaches its confluence with the Hunter River, south of . The majority of the course of the river flows through the Goulburn River National Park. The river descends over its course.[2]
William Lawson explored the area in 1823. Goulburn River was named in honour of Henry Goulburn, a British politician in the 1820s.[1]