Myall River | |
Name Other: | Upper Myall River |
Name Etymology: | Aboriginal |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Australia |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | New South Wales |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | NSW North Coast (IBRA), Mid North Coast, Hunter |
Subdivision Type4: | Local government area |
Subdivision Name4: | Mid-Coast Council |
Subdivision Type5: | Town |
Subdivision Name5: | Bulahdelah, Tea Gardens, Hawks Nest |
Length: | 92km (57miles) |
Source1: | Kyle Range, Great Dividing Range |
Source1 Location: | north northeast of Stroud |
Source1 Elevation: | 352m (1,155feet) |
Mouth: | Port Stephens |
Mouth Location: | at Hawks Nest |
Mouth Elevation: | 0m (00feet) |
River System: | Mid-Coast Council |
Basin Size: | 819km2 |
Tributaries Left: | Kyle Creek, Pipers Creek (Great Lakes, New South Wales) |
Tributaries Right: | Crawford River, Little Myall River, Monkey Jacket Creek |
Custom Label: | National park |
Custom Data: | Myall Lakes NP |
Extra: | [2] |
Myall River, an open semi-mature brackish freshwater barrier estuary[3] of the Mid-Coast Council[4] system, is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.
Myall River rises out of the southern slopes of Kyle Range within the Great Dividing Range, north northeast of Stroud, and flows generally south southeast then southwest, joined by tributaries, before reaching its mouth within Port Stephens at Hawks Nest. Port Stephens then empties into the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean. The river descends over its course.[2]
After flowing past the town of Bulahdelah, east of the small settlement of Nerong, the Myall River enters the most southern of the three Ramsar-protected Myall Lakes, Bombah Broadwater, within the Myall Lakes National Park. The flow of the river runs adjacent to the coastline and through both the Little Brasswater and the Brasswater near the towns of Tea Gardens, and Hawks Nest.[2]
Two notable bridges cross the Myall River. The Bulahdelah Bridge, carries the Pacific Highway, across the river north of Bulahdelah and the Singing Bridge crosses the river between Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest..
The word myall is an Australian Aboriginal term for a small silver-grey wattle tree.[1]