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Rubicon River (Victoria)

Field	Value
name	Rubicon
name_etymology	Latin: rubico
image_size	280
pushpin_map	Australia Victoria
pushpin_map_caption	Location of the Rubicon River mouth in Victoria
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Australia
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Victoria
subdivision_type3	Region
subdivision_name3	South Eastern Highlands bioregion (IBRA), Northern Country/North Central
subdivision_type4	Local government area
subdivision_name4	Murrindindi
subdivision_type5	Towns
subdivision_name5
length	26 km
source1	Victorian Alps, Great Dividing Range
source1_location	below Blue Range
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	891 m
mouth	confluence with the Goulburn River
mouth_location	west of
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	198 m
river_system	Goulburn Broken catchment,
Murray-Darling basin
tributaries_right	Quartz Creek (Victoria), Royston River
custom_label	Nature reserve
extra

Murray-Darling basin

The Rubicon 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. The headwaters of the Rubicon River rise on the western slopes of the Victorian Alps and descend to flow into the Goulburn River.

Location and features

The Rubicon River rises from the Great Dividing Range below the Blue Range east of , and flows northwest, fuelled by runoff from the Blue and Cerberean Ranges, joined by the Royston River and one minor tributary, before reaching its confluence with the Goulburn River, west of the town of . The river descends 693 m over its 26 km course.

The Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme, a small run-of-the-river hydroelectric scheme, is located at the mouth of the Royston River. The Rubicon River is impounded by a 64 m concrete arch dam diverts water into the 3.4 km Rubicon aqueduct to the site of the Royston Power Station, where it collects water diverted from the Royston River. Water then travels a further 5.4 km to the Rubicon Power Station forebay. The Rubicon Power Station has two 4.6 MW horizontal single-jet Pelton wheel generators. Further power stations are located at the 2.7 MW Lower Rubicon Power Station, some 2.3 km down-river and at the 0.3 MW Rubicon Falls Power Station. Established in 1924, the Scheme is on the Victorian Heritage Register and the Register of the National Estate.

Etymology

The river was at first probably called Rubicon Creek. The naming of the river first appeared on Thomas Ham's Map of Australia Felix in 1847, and was listed by Wells in 1848. The name of the river is derived from the Latin word rubico, a reddish river in central Italy, perhaps the modern Fiumicino or Pisciatello, at the border of Cisalpine Gaul and Italy.

References

{{Cite VICNAMES. 620083. Rubicon River
"Map of Rubicon River, VIC". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia.
{{cite VHD. 4620. Rubicon Hydro-electric Scheme
{{cite AHD. 100030. Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme, Rubicon, VIC

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