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Taoura May 2019

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Taoura May 2019

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) Hopwoods Lagoon (Taoura) Macdonald River (Gunanday)

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Hawkesbury district

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Rivers and Catchments

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Lakes

Hopwoods Lagoon (Taoura)

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Large crescent shaped lagoon to the south of the confluence of the Macdonald River and Thompson Creek. When the Reverend John McGarvie travelled along the river in 1829, the local Aboriginal people told him it was called 'Taoura' .

Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

Hawkesbury district

Area surrounding the Hawkesbury River to Sydney's north and north-west, which was important in early colonial agriculture and the site of the early towns of Richmond and Windsor.

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Macdonald River (Gunanday)

Gunanday, or the Macdonald River, is a tributary of the Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin) that rises on on the eastern slopes of Mellong Range in the Great Dividing Range. It flows east then south of the Hunter Valley for about 120 km and into the Hawkesbury River at Wisemans Ferry. It was referred to as Lower, or First Branch in early European records. By the 1830s it had been renamed after former convict John Macdonald who had been given a land grant in the area.

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