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Gardiners Creek, originally known as Kooyongkoot Creek,[1] is a waterway in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and part of the Yarra River catchment.

Gardiners Creek (Kooyongkoot)
Gardiners Creek through Blackburn
Location
Country	Australia
State	Victoria
Physical characteristics
Length	30 km (19 mi)
Basin size	Eastern suburbs of Melbourne

In a few sparse locations remnant riparian bushland survives, however the majority of its length has been heavily urbanised, and the creek has been degraded in much the same way as other Melbourne eastern suburban waterways such as the Mullum Mullum Creek and Koonung Creek. The Gardiners Creek Trail follows the creek for most of its length.

Naming

The creek's original name was Kooyongkoot, from the Woiwurrung language of the indigenous Australian Wurundjeri-Baluk group,[1] which translates to 'haunt of the waterfowl'. This name appeared on early maps such as the 1840 Thomas map.[2] The creek's current name was given in honour of early Melbourne land speculator and banker, John Gardiner, who settled near the junction of Kooyongkoot Creek and the Yarra River in 1836.[3]

Geography

Course

Gardiners Creek is over 30 km (19 mi) in length.

The creek originates in the suburb of Blackburn, where many small creeks and gullies converge around Blackburn Lake. It then flows southwest through Box Hill South, Burwood, and Ashwood. Approximately at its junction with Scotchmans Creek in Malvern East it turns northwest, then continues through Ashburton, Glen Iris, Malvern, and Kooyong, before finally flowing into the Yarra River in Hawthorn.[4]

Tributaries

• Unnamed watercourse through Blackburn/Forest Hill
• Unnamed watercourse through Wurundjeri Wetlands
• Damper Creek
• Unnamed watercourse through Ashwood/Mount Waverley

Murrumbeena Creek

• Scotchmans Creek

Hercules Creek

• Back Creek

Parklands

Upstream to downstream:[4]

Transport

The Gardiners Creek Trail, a shared use cycling and pedestrian track, follows the general course of Gardiners Creek from Box Hill's boundary with Blackburn to the Yarra River, where a bridge over the river links it to the Main Yarra Trail.[4]

The Monash Freeway/CityLink follow the Gardiners Creek valley from Malvern East to the Yarra River.[4]

Crossings

Upstream to downstream:[4]

See also

• Yarra River
• Koonung Creek
• Winter morning after rain, Gardiner's Creek (1885) - a painting by Tom Roberts

References

External links

• Melbourne Water page on Gardiners Creek
• Friends of Gardiners Creek
• Boroondara Council History of the Creek
• Blackburn Creeklands

На других языках

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[de] Gardiners Creek

Der Gardiners Creek (ursprünglich: Kooyongkoot Creek)[2] ist ein Bach im Süden des australischen Bundesstaates Victoria. Er verläuft durch die östlichen Stadtteile von Melbourne und mündet in den Yarra River.

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- [en] Gardiners Creek

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