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Gardiners Creek

Field	Value
name	Gardiners Creek
(Kooyongkoot)
image	Gardiners Creek Blackburn.PNG
image_caption	Gardiners Creek through Blackburn
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Australia
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Victoria
length_km	30
basin_size	Eastern suburbs of Melbourne

(Kooyongkoot) Gardiners Creek, originally known as Kooyongkoot Creek, is an urban stream in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and part of the Yarra River catchment.

Apart from a few sparse surviving remnant riparian bushlands, the majority of the creek's length has been heavily urbanised, and it has been degraded in much the same way as other Melbourne eastern suburban streams such as the Mullum Mullum Creek and Koonung Creek. The Gardiners Creek Trail follows the creek for most of its length.

Naming

Aerial perspective of Gardiners Creek in relation to Deakin University. Shot September 2018. Altitutude: 110m.

The creek's original name was Kooyongkoot, from the Woiwurrung language of the indigenous Australian Wurundjeri-Baluk group, The creek's current name was given in honour of early Melbourne land speculator and banker, John Gardiner, who settled near the junction of Kooyongkoot Creek and the Yarra River in 1836.

Geography

Course

Gardiners Creek is over 30 km in length. The creek originates in the suburb of Blackburn, where drainage from many smaller streams and gullies converge around Blackburn Lake. It then flows southwest through Box Hill South, Burwood, and Ashwood. Approximately at its junction with Scotchmans Creek in Malvern East it turns northwest, then continues through Ashburton, Glen Iris, Malvern, and Kooyong, before finally flowing into the Yarra River in Hawthorn.

Tributaries

Unnamed watercourse through Blackburn/Forest Hill
Unnamed watercourse through Wurundjeri Wetlands
Damper Creek
Unnamed watercourse through Ashwood/Mount Waverley :Murrumbeena Creek
Scotchmans Creek :Hercules Creek
Back Creek

Parklands

Upstream to downstream:

Blackburn Lake Sanctuary (Blackburn)
Blackburn Creeklands Reserve (Blackburn)
- Furness Park (Blackburn)
- Kalang Park (Blackburn)
- Blacks Walk (Blackburn)
R.H.L. Sparks Reserve (creek piped underground) (Box Hill)
Wembley Park (Box Hill South)
Box Hill Golf Club (Box Hill South)
Gardiners Creek Reserve (Burwood)
Local History Park (Burwood)
Gardiners Reserve (Burwood)
Ashwood Reserve (Ashwood)
Markham Reserve (Ashburton)
Malvern Valley Public Golf Course (Malvern East)
Darling Park (Malvern East)
Dorothy Laver Reserve (Glen Iris)
Dorothy Laver Reserve West (Glen Iris)
Glen Iris Wetlands (Glen Iris)
Glen Iris Park (Glen Iris)
Muswell Bend Park (Glen Iris)
Glenburn Bend Park (Glen Iris)
Nettleton Park Reserve (Glen Iris)
Kyarra Park (separated since freeway construction) (Glen Iris)
Howard Dawson Reserve (Glen Iris)
Burke Road South Reserve (Glen Iris)
Gardiner Park (separated since freeway construction) (Gardiner)
Tooronga Park (separated since freeway construction) (Malvern)
Patterson Reserve (Hawthorn)
H.A. Smith Reserve (separated since freeway construction) (Hawthorn)
Kooyong Park (Kooyong)
Kooyong Stadium (Kooyong)

Transport

The Gardiners Creek Trail, a shared use cycling and pedestrian track, follows the general course of Gardiners Creek from Box Hill's boundary with Blackburn to the Yarra River, where a bridge over the river links it to the Main Yarra Trail.

The Monash Freeway/CityLink follow the Gardiners Creek valley from Malvern East to the Yarra River.

Crossings

Upstream to downstream:

Central Road
Lake Road and Weir (Blackburn Lake)
Jeffery Street
Blackburn Road
Main Street
Blackburn Creeklands Footbridges
Pakenham Street
Middleborough Road
Canterbury Road
Station Street
Burwood Highway
Highbury Road
High Street Road
Warrigal Road
Winton Road
Darling Park Footbridge
Dunlop Street
Glen Iris Park Footbridge
High Street
Nettleton Park Footbridge
Great Valley Road
Burke Road
Tooronga Road
Toorak Road
Monash Freeway/CityLink
Glenferrie Road

References

"Gardiners Creek: Aboriginal settlement". [[City of Boroondara]].
"Digitalised Resource Viewer". State Library of Victoria.
"Gardiners Creek: John Gardiner". [[City of Boroondara]].
(2006). "Melway: Greater Melbourne Street Directory 2007". [[Melway]] Publishing Pty Ltd.

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