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Molongolo River

Molonglo (Yeal-am-bid-gie)
River
Swans on molonglo river.jpg
Black swans on Molonglo River
Name origin: Aboriginal: "like the sound of thunder"
Country Australia
States New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory
Regions South Eastern Highlands (IBRA), Monaro, Capital Country
Municipalities Palerang, Queanbeyan
Part of Murrumbidgee River,
Murray-Darling basin
Tributaries
 - left Queanbeyan River, Jerrabomberra Creek
 - right Sullivans Creek
City Queanbeyan
Landmarks Molonglo Plain, Molonglo Gorge
Source Tinderry Range, Great Dividing Range
 - location near Captains Flat
 - elevation 1,130 m (3,707 ft)
 - coordinates 35°40′5″S 149°29′50″E / 35.66806°S 149.49722°E / -35.66806; 149.49722
Mouth confluence with the Murrumbidgee River
 - location near Uriarra Crossing
 - elevation 440 m (1,444 ft)
 - coordinates 35°14′30″S 148°58′4″E / 35.24167°S 148.96778°E / -35.24167; 148.96778Coordinates: 35°14′30″S 148°58′4″E / 35.24167°S 148.96778°E / -35.24167; 148.96778
Length 115 km (71 mi)
Basin 198,900 km2 (76,796 sq mi)
Nature reserves Molonglo Gorge Recreation Reserve,
Jerrabomberra Wetlands,
Lower Molonglo Nature Reserve
Reservoir Lake Burley Griffin
Dam Scrivener Dam
Molonglo River is located in Australian Capital Territory
Molonglo River
Location of the Molonglo River mouth in the ACT

The Molonglo River, a perennial river that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Monaro and Capital Country regions of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, in Australia.

The river rises on the western side of the Great Dividing Range, in Tallaganda State Forest at 1,130 metres (3,710 ft) and flows generally from south to north before turning northwest, through Carwoola and the outskirts of Queanbeyan, where it has confluence with its major tributary, the Queanbeyan River, and then continues through Canberra, where it has been dammed by the Scrivener Dam to form Lake Burley Griffin. The river then flows to its mouth with the Murrumbidgee River, near Uriarra Crossing. Over its 115 kilometres (71 mi) course the Molonglo River alternates between long broad floodplains and narrow rocky gorges several times. One of these floodplains is called the Molonglo Plain.

From source to mouth, the river is traversed by the Captains Flat Road at Captains Flat, Briars-Sharrow Road in Carwoola, the Kings Highway between Queanbeyan and Bungendore, the Yass Road, north of Queanbeyan, the Monaro Highway at Pialligo, the Commonwealth and Kings Avenues as Lake Burley Griffin between Parkes and Acton, Lady Denman Drive at Scrivener Dam, and the Tuggeranong Parkway north of the Glenloch Interchange.


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