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Brodribb River

River in Victoria, Australia

Field	Value
name	Brodribb
name_etymology	In honour of William Adams Brodribb.
image	Brodribb River, Marlo from Bridge - panoramio.jpg
image_caption	Brodribb River, Marlo from Bridge
pushpin_map	Australia Victoria
pushpin_map_caption	Mouth of the Brodribb River in Victoria
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Australia
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Victoria
subdivision_type3	Region
subdivision_name3	South East Corner (IBRA), East Gippsland
subdivision_type5	Local government area
subdivision_name5	Shire of East Gippsland
length	105 km
source1	Errinundra Plateau
source1_location	Errinundra National Park
source1_elevation	334 m
source_confluence	South Branch and North Branch of the Brodribb River
mouth	confluence with the Snowy River
mouth_location	Lake Corringle-Lake Wat Wat Wildlife Reserve
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	41 m
river_system	Snowy River catchment
tributaries_left	Ellery Creek, B A Creek, Ferntree Creek, Big River, Rich River, Tooti Creek, Jack River, Cabbage Tree Creek
tributaries_right	Goongerah Creek, Joy Creek, Dead Bull Creek, Dead Calf Creek, Ironbark Creek, Martin Creek (Victoria), Sardine Creek, Wild Cow Creek, Dynamite Creek, Gravelly Creek, Camp Creek (Victoria)
custom_label	National park
custom_data	Errinundra NP
extra

The Brodribb River is a perennial river of the Snowy River catchment, located in the East Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria.

Course and features

Formed by the confluence of the South Branch and the North Branch of the river, the Brodribb River rises below the Errinundra Plateau within the Errinundra National Park east of the locality of . The river flows generally south by west by south, joined by the Big, Rich, and Jack rivers and sixteen minor tributaries, flowing through a series of reserves and through Lake Curlip, before reaching its confluence with the Snowy River, within the Lake Corringle-Lake Wat Wat Wildlife Reserve in the Shire of East Gippsland. The river descends 337 m over its 105 km course.

An area of 17 km2 of wetlands along the lower reaches of the river has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports a small breeding population of the endangered Australasian bittern.

In its upper reaches, the river is traversed on multiple occasions by the Bonang Highway. In its lower reaches, the river is traversed by the Princess Highway, east of ; and the Marlo Road, north of .

The catchment area of the river is administered by the East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority.

Aboriginal massacre

At some time in 1850, 15 to 20 Gunai people were killed on the banks of the Brodribb River, a few miles south east of Orbost. The killing was reported to have been revenge for the murder of station cook Dan Dempsey, for lacing a gift of flour to local Gunai people with arsenic. The Aboriginal police were believed to have been involved in the massacre.

Etymology

The river was named in honour of William Adams Brodribb, an early settler.

References

(2 May 1966). "Brodribb River: 24604". [[Government of Victoria (Australia).
"Map of Brodribb River, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia.
"IBA: Lower Brodribb River". Birds Australia.
"Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930". Centre for 21st Century Humanities, [[University of Newcastle (Australia).
Finch, Janette. (1969). "Brodribb, William Adams (1809 - 1886)".
Blake, Les. (12 October 2006). "Place names of Victoria". Rigby.

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