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The Yea River, an inland perennial river of the Goulburn Broken catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower South Eastern Highlands bioregion and Northern Country/North Central regions of the Australian state of Victoria.
In the Woiwurrung language of central Victoria the name means "living in the mountains". However, the inaccurate translation "mist of the mountains" is sometimes given. [2] [3] Snodgrass's station covered the area from the present-day town of Yea up the valleys of the east and west branches of the Muddy Creek, now the Yea River.
Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. [2] It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft).
Yea is located on the inside (west and south) of a bend in the Yea River about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south-east of where it meets the Goulburn River. It is 112 kilometres (70 mi) north-east of Melbourne at 172 metres (564 ft) above sea-level, on the northern slopes of the Great Dividing Range. The centre of the town is on the flood plain of the ...
The river is joined by five minor tributaries, passing through the town of Murrindindi before reaching its confluence with the Yea River, southwest of Limestone, east of the Melba Highway. The river descends 187 metres (614 ft) over its 26-kilometre (16 mi) course. [2] The name of the river is derived from the name of the pastoral run.
The river descends 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) over its 654-kilometre (406 mi) course. [8] In addition to being the longest river in Victoria, the Goulburn also has the highest discharge and the highest annual flow of any river in Victoria. The area surrounding the river is very productive as a result of irrigated agriculture. [10]
The north–south pipeline crossing the Yea River at Glenburn. Protest sign about the North South pipeline near Bonnie Doon.. The North–South Pipeline, also known as the Sugarloaf Pipeline, is a water pipeline in Central Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne that is part of Victoria's water system, acting as a link between Melbourne's water grid and the Murray-Goulburn water grid ...
Melba Highway is a semi-rural highway that connects the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the town of Yea, [5] in Victoria's Upper Goulburn region. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, a famed Australian opera singer of the early 20th century, whose former country estate lies at the southern end of the highway in Coldstream.