The Snowy River below McKillops Bridge

The Snowy River is a major river in south-eastern Australia. The Snowy River drains the eastern slopes of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales. The main branch rises on the slopes of Mount Kosciusko, Australia's highest peak. The main headwaters, the Snowy, the Eucumbene River and the Crackenback River meet near Jindabyne and wind southwards through inaccessible country, including the Snowy River National Park, eventually reaching the sea at Marlo, near Orbost, Victoria. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x800, 290 KB)The Snowy River from McKillops Road in the Snowy River National Park, Victoria, Australia. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x800, 290 KB)The Snowy River from McKillops Road in the Snowy River National Park, Victoria, Australia. ... Worldwind image of Snowy Mountains The Snowy Mountains (the Snowies) are the tallest Australian mountain range and contain Australias tallest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko at 2228 metres above sea level. ... Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Mount Kosciuszko, located in the Snowy Mountains, in Kosciuszko National Park, is the highest mountain in Australia. ... The Eucumbene River rises in the northern part of the Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales, Australia, and flows south. ... Jindabyne, as viewed from across Lake Jindabyne Jindabyne is a town in New South Wales, Australia that overlooks Lake Jindabyne near the Snowy Mountains. ... Snowy River is a national park in Victoria (Australia), 323 km east of Melbourne. ... Orbost is a town of about 2000 people (2001) in the East Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 375km east of Melbourne where the Princes Highway crosses the Snowy River. ... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ...

The Snowy River originally had a huge flow from the spring snow-melt which flowed directly into the sea. In the 1950s, as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a network of dams was built to collect and divert most of the water of the Snowy through the mountains, to provide more water to the Murray River and Murrumbidgee River for irrigation and to generate electricity. During the 1990s the low level of water in the Snowy River was a major environmental concern in Victoria, with a political campaign to increase the water from one per cent to 28 per cent of its original flow from the dam at Jindabyne. An independent candidate from the Orbost district, Craig Ingram, was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1999, and re-elected in 2002, on a platform to increase the flow of water in the Snowy River. Bold text This is the current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight! Please help improve it to featured article standard. ... A branch of the Murray in its middle reaches, near Howlong, New South Wales The Murray River is Australias second-longest river in its own right (the longest being its tributary the Darling). ... The Murrumbidgee River is a major river in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ... Lightning strikes during a night-time thunderstorm. ... The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Victoria in Australia. ...

The rugged beauty of the Snowy River was immortalised in the 'Banjo' Patterson poem The Man from Snowy River, first published in 1890. Banjo Paterson. ... The Man From Snowy River is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. ...

The Snowy River Shire surrounding the river in New South Wales is a Local Government Area. Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled by each individual Local Government. ...

External links

• Snowy River Alliance