Scout Creek | |
Name Etymology: | Derived from the Baden Powell Scout Training Camp, located adjacent to the creek. |
Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map: | Australia Sydney |
Pushpin Map Size: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Map of Greater Metropolitan Sydney, with the location of the mouth of the Scout Creek, as marked |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Australia |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | New South Wales |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Sydney basin (IBRA), Northern Suburbs |
Subdivision Type5: | LGAs |
Subdivision Name5: | Hornsby |
Length: | 1.8km (01.1miles) |
Source1 Coordinates: | -33.7358°N 151.0764°W |
Mouth: | confluence with the Lane Cove River |
Mouth Location: | between Pennant Hills and South Turramurra |
Mouth Coordinates: | -33.7533°N 151.1006°W |
River System: | Parramatta River catchment |
Custom Label: | National park |
Custom Data: | Lane Cove NP |
Scout Creek is an urban gully, is located in Hornsby Shire local government area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Parramatta River catchment.
Scout Creek rises on the southern side of the intersection of Paling Street and Pennant Hills Road, in the suburb of ; with its headwaters forming the watershed boundary between the Hornsby Plateau and the Cumberland Plain. The creek flows generally south-east by south, through the Baden Powell Scout Training Camp and Pennant Hills Park, before reaching its confluence with the Lane Cove River, between Pennant Hills and South Turramurra, in the Lane Cove National Park. The course of the creek is approximately .
Scout Creek was formerly known as 'Boy Scout Creek' from when the Boy Scout Camp site was opened in 1927, adjacent to the creek. The name was locally changed to 'Scout Creek' in the 1960s when the term 'Boy' was removed from the title of the Scouts Association.