The Delatite River, an inland
perennial river
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of the
Goulburn
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Broken catchment, part of the
Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower
South Eastern Highlands
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bioregion
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and
Northern Country/North Central regions of the
Australia
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n state of
Victoria. The headwaters of the Delatite River rise on the western slopes of the
Victorian Alps
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and descend to flow into the Goulburn River within
Lake Eildon
The Eildon Dam is a rock and earth-fill embankment dam with a controlled spillway, located on the Goulburn River between the regional towns of and within Lake Eildon National Park, in the Alpine region of Victoria, Australia. The dam's pur ...
.
Location and features
The Delatite River rises in Howqua Gap, between the ski resort mountains of
Mount Stirling and
Mount Buller
Mount Buller is primarily a resort town on the slopes of Mount Buller (Victoria), Mount Buller, within Mount Buller Alpine Resort, an unincorporated area of the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It is located approximately n ...
, of the
Great Dividing Range
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. The river flows generally westwards, initially through rugged national park and state forests and, as the river descends, through more open woodlands. The river is joined by nine tributaries, passing north of the town of before reaching its
confluence
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in Lake Eildon, an impoundment formed on the Goulburn and Delatite rivers, just east of . The river descends over its
course
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.
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Etymology
In Australian Aboriginal languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
, the river is variously named ''Wappang'', ''Callathera'', ''Kalylatherer'' or ''Kay-lath-er-rer'', ''Pappang'', and ''Wapping'' with no defined meanings for each of the words.[
The name of the river is derived from the name of the wife of a former local ]indigenous
Indigenous may refer to:
*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology)
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leader ''Beolite'', the leader of the yowung-illum-baluks of the Taungurung people, in the Taungurung language.
See also
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References
External links
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Goulburn Broken catchment
Rivers of Hume (region)
Tributaries of the Goulburn River
Alpine National Park
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