Perry | |
Name Native: | [1] [2] |
Name Other: | Providence Ponds[3] |
Name Etymology: | In honour of Captain Samuel Perry |
Pushpin Map: | Australia Victoria |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Perry 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), East Gippsland |
Subdivision Type5: | Local government area |
Subdivision Name5: | Shire of Wellington |
Length: | 29km (18miles) |
Source1 Elevation: | 66m (217feet) |
Mouth: | confluence with the Avon River |
Mouth Location: | southeast of |
Mouth Coordinates: | -38.0439°N 147.2639°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 3m (10feet) |
River System: | East Gippsland catchment |
Tributaries Right: | Sandy Creek (Perry River, Victoria), Jones Creek (Perry River, Victoria), Fiddlers Creek |
Custom Label: | National park |
Custom Data: | The Lakes National Park |
Extra: | [4] |
The Perry River is a perennial river of the East Gippsland catchment, located in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.
The Perry River rises near on the East Gippsland plain and flows in a highly meandering course generally south, joined by three minor tributaries before reaching its confluence with the Avon River before the Avon empties into Lake Wellington southeast of . Within Lake Wellington, the Avon forms its confluence with the Latrobe River, empties into Bass Strait via the Mitchell River south of . The river descends over its 29km (18miles) course.[4]
In the Aboriginal Brataualung language the name for the river is Goomballa, meaning "climbing".[1] [2]
The river was named in 1840 by Count Paweł Strzelecki after Captain Samuel Perry, deputy Surveyor General of New South Wales.[5] [6]