Tuggeranong Creek | |
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Etymology | Aboriginal: word meaning "cold plain"[1] |
Location | |
Country | Australia |
Territory | Australian Capital Territory |
IBRA | South Eastern Highlands |
District | Tuggeranong |
Town centre | Tuggeranong |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Tuggeranong Hill |
• location | east of Theodore |
• elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft)(approx.) |
Mouth | Confluence with Murrumbidgee River |
• location | South of Greenway |
• elevation | 570 m (1,870 ft)(approx.) |
Basin features | |
River system | Murrumbidgee River, Murray–Darling basin |
Tributaries | |
• right | Dunns Creek |
Reservoirs | Isabella Pond, Lake Tuggeranong |
Tuggeranong Creek, a partly perennial stream of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Tuggeranong district of Canberra, within the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Tuggeranong is derived from the Aboriginal word, meaning "cold plain".[1] The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Tuggeranong Creek are the Aboriginal people of the Ngunnawal tribe.