Karuah River

Karuah River
Karuah River Left Hand Branch,^[1] Clyde^[2]
Karuah River; Karuah River Left Hand Branch, Clyde
	Karuah Bridge over the Karuah River at Karuah.
Etymology	Aboriginal
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	NSW North Coast (IBRA), Mid North Coast, Hunter
Local government area	Mid-Coast Council
Town	Stroud, Karuah
Physical characteristics
Source	Gloucester Tops, Great Dividing Range
• location	below The Mountaineer, southwest of Gloucester
• elevation	598 m (1,962 ft)
Mouth	Port Stephens
• location	Karuah
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Length	101 km (63 mi)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Martins Creek (New South Wales), Lawlers Creek, Mammy Johnsons River, Mill Creek (New South Wales), Alderley Creek, Booral Creek, Snapes Creek, The Branch River
• right	Whispering Gully, Telegherry River, Scotters Creek, Deep Creek (New South Wales), Limeburners Creek

Karuah River, an open semi-mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary^[4] is located in the Mid North Coast and Hunter regions of New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features

Karuah River rises on the southeastern slopes of Gloucester Tops of the Great Dividing Range, below The Mountaineer, southwest of Gloucester, and flows generally southeast and south. joined by eleven tributaries including the Telegherry, Mammy Johnsons, and The Branch rivers, before reaching its mouth within Port Stephens at Karuah, and then flows out to the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean. The river descends 600 metres (2,000 ft) over its 101 kilometres (63 mi) course.^[3]

Initially named Clyde by Lachlan Macquarie, the use of the Aboriginal name became prevalent subsequently.^[2]

^ "Karuah River". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c Dow, L; Guyon, D; Irving, R; McPhee, M; Matthews, A; Prineas, P; Rubinich, T; Simpson, J (1995). Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide to Australian Places. Surry Hills, NSW: Reader's Digest. p. 68. ISBN 0-86438-399-1.
^ ^a ^b "Map of Karuah River, NSW". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
^ P.S Roy; R.J Williams; A.R Jones; I Yassini; et al. (September 2001). "Structure and Function of South-east Australian Estuaries". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 53 (3): 351–384. doi:10.1006/ECSS.2001.0796. ISSN 0272-7714. Wikidata Q54306047.

v t e River systems and rivers of Hunter-Central Rivers catchment, New South Wales, Australia
Manning River	Avon Back Barnard Barrington Bobin Bowman Burns Caparra Cedar Party Cells Cobark Connollys Cooplacurripa Curricabark Dawson Dilgry Dingo Gloucester Kerripit Lansdowne Manning Moppy Mummel Nowendoc Pigna Barney Rowleys Walcrow
Great Lakes	Coolongolook Crawford Karuah Mammy Johnsons Myall Telegherry The Branch Wallamba Wallingat Wang Wauk Wards
Hunter Valley and Hunter River	Allyn Baerami Barigan Blackwater Bow Bylong Cattle Creek Cedar Chichester Congewai Cooba Bulga Goulburn Growee Hunter Isis Krui Lee Merriwa Moonan Munmurra Pages Creek Pages River Paterson Rouchel Stewarts Wangat Widden Williams Wollombi Worondi
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v t e Towns, suburbs and localities of Mid-Coast Council, New South Wales
Towns, suburbs and localities	Allworth Back Creek Barrington Boomerang Beach Booral Bulahdelah Bungwahl Cabbage Tree Island Carrington Cedar Party Coolongolook Coopernook Cooplacurripa Copeland Cundletown Darawank Diamond Beach Dungog Elands Elizabeth Beach Failford Fernhill Forster Gloucester Green Point Hannam Vale Harrington Hawks Nest Johns River Karuah Killabakh Koorainghat Krambach Lansdowne Manning Point Mitchells Island Monkerai Mount George Nabiac Nooroo North Arm Cove Number One Old Bar Pacific Palms Purfleet Seal Rocks Smiths Lake Stratford Stroud Tahlee Taree Tea Gardens Tinonee Tuncurry Wallabi Point Wallis Island Wallis Lake Wingham
Rivers and other waterways	Avon River Barnard River Barrington River Bowman River Coolongolook River Cooplacurripa River Crawford River Curricabark River Gloucester River Karuah River Mammy Johnsons River Manning River Myall Lakes Myall River Smiths Lake Telegherry River The Branch River Wallamba River Wallingat River Wallis Lake Wards River
National parks	Barrington Tops Booti Booti Ghin-Doo-Ee Myall Lakes Wallingat
Other places and points of interest	Broughton Island Cape Hawke Gloucester Tops Mitchells Island Tahlee historic property Tea Gardens-Hawks Nest Bridge