Billabong
- Local Government Area
- Wellington
- Postcode
- 3858
- Area
- 183.99 km²
- Coordinates
- -37.2588, 146.8280
- Data
- Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics ASGS boundaries, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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About Billabong
In Australian English, a billabong (/ˈbɪləbɒŋ/ BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually a permanent one created by a change in course or the flooding of a river. It is variously used to refer to oxbow lakes, dry creek beds that fill after heavy rainfall and channels of rivers that lead to dead-ends or backwaters. The term is likely borrowed from Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal Australian language of New South Wales.
Description from Wikipedia, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nearby localities
- Arbuckle 12 km
- Wonnangatta 13 km
- Howitt Plains 14 km
- Wongungarra 19 km
- Crooked River 20 km
- Reynard 21 km