Peel River (New South Wales)

Peel River at Nundle

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

It rises on the northern slopes of the Liverpool Range to the south of the village of Nundle. From there it flows north through the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, through Woolomin and Piallamore and pours into the Liverpool Plains in Tamworth. He turns his course to the west and ends just below the Keepit Dam in the Namoi River. The Cockburn River is the main tributary of the Peel River and flows Nemingha, east of Tamworth, a.

South of Woolomin is the Chaffey Reservoir, where the Peel River is dammed to provide drinking water for Tamworth available.

The Peel River was named after Sir Robert Peel, a prominent British politician in the period of British explorers in Australia, named.

The scientific name of Cod Barschs Mucullochella peeli peeli (English Murray cod) was derived from the Peel River. Thomas Livingstone Mitchell had first discovered him in the waters of this river.