List of valleys of Australia explained

This is a list of valleys of Australia.

New South Wales

The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales lists 37 valleys in the Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW.^[1]

• Arbon Vale
• Babbage Ravine
• Bindra Basin
• Bromley Basin
• Brumby Pass
• Capertee Valley
• Cedar Valley
• Edies Glen
• Erskine Valley
• Glenfinlass
• Glenworth Valley
• Jamison Valley
• Jerrawangala Valley
• Kangaroo Valley
• Kanimbla Valley
• Kedumba Valley
• Kemps Valley
• Ladysmith Glen
• Luminous Valley
• Lyrebird Glen
• Megalong Valley
• Monolith Valley
• Old Mans Valley
• Orara Valley
• Queen Charlottes Vale
• Sidmouth Valley
• Stoddarts Valley
• Tam O'Shanters Glen
• Three Mile Glen
• Uargon Valley
• Valley of The Shadows
• Valley of The Swamps
• Water Nymphs Dell
• Wattley Hollow
• Whalania Deep
• Wolgan Valley
• Yarramalong Valley

Although not included in the Geographical Names Register, the following are also valleys in New South Wales:

• Berowra Valley
• Brindabella Valley
• Bylong Valley
• Grose Valley
• Hunter Valley - Technically the Hunter Valley is not a single valley but a series of interlinking valleys forming a single region known formally as the Hunter Region.
• Macquarie Valley (Shellharbour)
• Tweed Valley

Northern Territory

• Palm Valley

Queensland

• Boyne Valley
• Currumbin Valley
• Fassifern Valley
• Goldsborough Valley^[2]
• Lockyer Valley
• Numinbah Valley
• Samford Valley
• Tallebudgera Valley

South Australia

• Aroona Valley^[3]
• Barossa Valley
• Clare Valley
• Eden Valley
• Inman Valley
• Kenton Valley
• Second Valley

Tasmania

Placenames Tasmania, the official nomenclature agency of Tasmania, lists 516 geographic entities classed as 'valleys' and 164 with the name of Valley.^[4]

• Coal River Valley
• Cradle Valley
• Derwent Valley
• Fingal Valley
• Huon Valley
• Meander Valley
• Styx Valley
• Tamar Valley
• Upper Florentine Valley
• Weld Valley

Victoria

• Goulburn Valley
• Indigo Valley
• King Valley
• Latrobe Valley

Western Australia

• Blackwood Valley
• Helena Valley
• Swan Valley

See also

• List of rivers of Australia

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of placenames ASSIGNED as VALLEYs. Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. 2008-06-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20120716185236/http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search?transaction=savefile&placename=&status=ASSIGNED&designation=VALLEY&lga=None&map=&parish=. 2012-07-16. dead.
2. http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/park/?parkid=214&noback=1 Goldsborough Valley State Forest
3. Web site: Aroona Valley . A biography of the Australian continent . 19 November 2023.
4. Web site: Placenames Tasmania. placenames.tas.gov.au. Department of Natural Resources & Environment. 7 November 2015.