Ithaca Creek

Ithaca
Ithaca Creek at Bardon, 2007
Location
CountryAustralia
StateQueensland
RegionSouth East Queensland
CityBrisbane
Physical characteristics
SourceMount Coot-tha
 • locationTaylor Range
MouthRed Hill
 • location
Brisbane
Basin features
River systemEnoggera Creek
Ithaca Creek at Bardon, 2011.

Ithaca Creek is a waterway in the Enoggera Creek catchment, in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It arises in the Taylor Range at the Mount Coot-tha forest with two streams, one arising at J C Slaughter Falls, the other and stronger source being Simpson Falls, the western branch.

Ithaca Creek runs through the suburbs of Bardon, Ashgrove and Red Hill, where it joins Enoggera Creek. Ithaca Intact, a creek restoration project by Save Our Waterways Now went into its third year mid 2010, backed by Queensland parliamentarians Kate Jones, Member for Ashgrove and then Minister for the Environment, Andrew Fraser, Member for Mount Coot-tha and Queensland Treasurer, as well as local government councillors Geraldine Knapp and David Hinchliffe.[1]

On 9 August 2020, it was discovered that Google Maps accidentally changed the Brisbane River name to Ithaca Creek after a complaint for the original Ithaca Creek being named Brisbane River.[2]

  1. ^ The creek in our back yard ISBN 978-0-646-55158-6. Save Our Waterways Now.
  2. ^ "Brisbane River renamed Ithaca Creek in Google Maps glitch". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.