Breakfast Creek (Queensland)
| Breakfast (Barrambin) | |
| Enoggera Creek | |
| Creek | |
 Breakfast Creek
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| Name origin: Derived from breakfast | |
| Country | Australia |
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| State | Queensland |
| Region | South East Queensland |
| Part of | Brisbane River |
| City | Brisbane |
| Source | D'Aguilar Range |
| - location | D'Aguilar National Park |
| Source confluence | Enoggera Creek |
| - location | Herston |
| - elevation | 2 m (7 ft) |
| - coordinates | 27°26′41″S 153°1′59″E / 27.44472°S 153.03306°E |
| Mouth | confluence with the Brisbane River |
| - location | Albion, Newstead |
| - elevation | 1 m (3 ft) |
| - coordinates | 27°26′31″S 153°2′51″E / 27.44194°S 153.04750°ECoordinates: 27°26′31″S 153°2′51″E / 27.44194°S 153.04750°E |
| Length | 2 km (1 mi) |
 Location of the Breakfast Creek mouth in Queensland
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The Breakfast Creek (Aboriginal: Barrambin) is a small urban stream that is a tributary of the Brisbane River, located in suburban Brisbane in the South East region of Queensland, Australia.
Rising as the Enoggera Creek that drains the D'Aguilar Range in the D'Aguilar National Park, Breakfast Creek forms near Herston where it flows a short meandering course of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) before reaching its confluence with the Brisbane River at Newstead, next to Newstead Park. Travelling up the Brisbane River the creek is the first to join the river on its northern banks.
The heritage-listed Breakfast Creek Hotel is located near the confluence with the Brisbane River and is known for serving XXXX beer exclusively from wooden barrels.
The shorter race in the annual Bridge to Brisbane fun run starts at the Breakfast Creek bridge.
John Oxley and Allan Cunningham met members of an aboriginal clan at the mouth of the creek in 1824. After they had breakfast at the site minor conflict with the aboriginals arose after one of them grabbed Oxley's hat. Oxley named the waterway in remembrance of the incident.
An important Aboriginal camping ground occupied the Breakfast Creek / Hamilton area until it was broken up by police raids in the 1860s. The camp was one of the major sources from which local Aboriginal people supplied the Moreton Bay colony with fish. It was also where Aboriginal leader Dalaipi spoke his famous 'Indictments' which were published in the Moreton Bay Courier in 1858.
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