Gardiners Creek
Gardiners Creek in Blackburn
Map of the Gardiners Creek and its tributaries
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The Gardiners Creek (originally Kooyongkoot Creek ) is a river in the southern Australian state of Victoria. It runs through the eastern districts of Melbourne and flows into the Yarra River.
In a few places on its banks there are still original lowland forest, but mostly it runs through suburbs and so the stream was regulated in the same way as other streams in the urban area, such as Mullum Mullum Creek, or the Koonung Creek. The Gardiners Creek Trail follows the creek for nearly its entire length.
- 3.1 bridges
Origin of the name
The creek was originally called Kooyongkoot. This is a word from the language of the Woiwurrung Aboriginesstammes Wurundjeri - Baluk, that you can with a waterfowl sanctuary ' translate. Its current name was given the creek in honor of the former banker John Gardiner from Melbourne, in 1836 settled at the mouth of Kooyongkoot Creek in the Yarra River.
Geography
Run
The Gardiners Creek is 17 km long.
The creek rises in the suburb of Blackburn, where pour many small creeks and rivulets in the Blackburn Lake. Then it flows south through Box Hill South Burwood and Ashwood after. Approximately at the mouth of Scotch Mans Creek in Malvern East, he turns his course to the northwest and flows through Ashburton, Glen Iris, Malvern and Kooyong to lead to Hawthorne in the Yarra River.
Tributaries
- Unnamed Stream by Blackburn / Forest Hill
- Unnamed Stream by the Wurundjeri Wetlands
- Damper Creek
- Unnamed Stream by Ashwood / Mount Waverley
- Scotch Mans Creek
- Back Creek
Parks
Several parks are located along the banks of the Gardiners Creek:
- Blackburn Lake Sanctuary (Blackburn)
- Blackburn Creek Highlands Reserve ( Blackburn) Furness Park ( Blackburn)
- Kalang Park ( Blackburn)
- Blacks Walk ( Blackburn)
- 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 ( since construction of freeways shared) ( Glen Iris )
- Howard Dawson Reserve ( Glen Iris )
- Burke Road South Reserve ( Glen Iris )
- Gardiner Park ( since construction of freeways shared) ( Gardiner )
- Tooronga Park ( since construction of freeways shared) ( Malvern )
- Patterson Reserve ( Hawthorn )
- HA Smith Reserve ( since construction of freeways shared) ( Hawthorn )
- Kooyong Park ( Kooyong )
- Kooyong Stadium ( Kooyong )
Traffic
The Gardiners Creek Trail, a combined foot and cycle path that generally follows the course of the Gardiners Creek from Blackburn to the Yarra River, where he established a bridge over the river with the Main Yarra Trail ..
The Monash Freeway / Citylink follows the valley of the Gardiners Creek from Malvern East to the Yarra River.
Bridges
In the flow direction:
- Central Road
- Lake Road & Wier (Blackburn Lake )
- Jeffery Street
- Blackburn Road
- Main Street
- Blackburn Creek Lands 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