Bogan River

Bogan River at Nyngan

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The Bogan River is a river in the Australian state of New South Wales.

It rises north of Goonumbla in the center of New South Wales and flows north-northwest through the towns of Peak Hill, Tottenham and Nyngan. After 617 km it flows east of Warrawenga near its source in the Darling River. Its main tributaries are the Bugwah Creek, the Bulbodney Creek, the Burill Creek, the Duck Creek and Gunningbar Creek.

Unlike many other rivers in the center of New South Wales the Bogan River originates not in the water-rich highlands and so its water level is low and changes greatly with the seasons. For the irrigation of the land he barely is good.

History

Crossed the river for the first time John Oxley in 1817, but he was named by Charles Sturt on January 1, 1829 during the Expedition from 1828 to 1829, as a New Years Creek. Even before Major Sir Thomas Mitchell explored the river in 1835, he was named Bogan River. On April 17, 1835, the botanist Richard Cunningham left the expedition Mitchell near the Bogan River and was probably killed by Aborigines.

In April 1990, the river caused a great flood in Nyngan and more, in spite of all the efforts of the population, the sandbags to flood embankments aufschichtete, 2,500 people from the city to be evacuated.

The name Bogan is probably an aboriginal name for the birthplace of a local tribal leader.