Murchison River (Tasmania)

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The Murchison River is a river in the north-west of the Australian state of Tasmania.

Geography

River

The river rises on the northern slopes of Pyramid Mountain in the center of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park and flows first in a semicircle around the neighboring mountain The Amphitheatre of an initially eastern direction over the north west. Below the Mount Nereus he turns his run then to the northwest and from the mouth of Bluff River to the southwest. Shortly after, he enters the Lake Murchison, who distracts him again in a northwesterly direction. On the western edge of the national park he emerges from below the Murchison Dam and ends after a few kilometers in the small town of Tullah into Lake Rosebery, where he, together with the Mackintosh River to Pieman River.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

  • Robert Creek - 365 m
  • Wallace River - 342 m
  • Achilles River - 336 m
  • Bluff River - 280 m
  • George Creek - 269 m
  • Anthony River - 222 m

Flowed through reservoirs

  • Lake Murchison - 222 m
  • Lake Rosebery - 190 m

Dam

The Murchison River was southeast of the small town of Tullah dammed to Lake Murchison. The narrow, long lake extends into the western part of the Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park. Water from this reservoir is directed to produce electricity through the Sophia Tunnel in the Lake Mackintosh.

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