Wonnangatta River: Difference between revisions

| name_native = {{native name|unn|Wontwun,<ref name=vicnames1>{{cite web|url=https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=5821|title=Wonnangatta River: 29753: Traditional Name: Wontwun|work=Vicnames|publisher=[[Government of Victoria (Australia)|Government of Victoria]]|date=12 August 2011|access-date=15 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=vicnames2>{{cite web|url=https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=296|title=Wonnangatta River: 29753: Traditional Name: Wontwun|work=Vicnames|publisher=[[Government of Victoria (Australia)|Government of Victoria]]|date=12 August 2011|access-date=15 January 2014}}</ref> WonnangaUa<ref name=vicnames3>{{cite web|url=https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=5820|title=Wonnangatta River: 29753: Traditional Name: WonnangaUa|work=Vicnames|publisher=[[Government of Victoria (Australia)|Government of Victoria]]|date=12 August 2011|access-date=15 January 2014}}</ref>}}

The Wonnangatta River rises below Mount Despair, part of the [[Great Dividing Range]], east of {{VICcity|Mansfield}} in a remote [[state forest]]ryforestry [[Protected areas of Victoria#Reference Areas inside other Protected areas|protected area]], called the Wonnangatta River Reference Area. The river flows generally south by east, in a highly meandering [[watercourse|course]], joined by eleven [[tributary|tributaries]] including the [[Dry River (Victoria)|Dry]], [[Humffray River|Humffray]], [[Moroka River|Moroka]], [[Wongungarra River|Wongungarra]] and [[Dargo River|Dargo]] rivers, before reaching its [[confluence]] with the [[Wentworth River (Victoria)|Wentworth River]] and [[Swamp Creek (Mitchell, East Gippsland, Victoria)|Swamp Creek]] to form the Mitchell River north of the [[Mitchell River National Park (Victoria)|Mitchell River National Park]], in the [[Shire of East Gippsland]]. The river descends {{convert|1110|m}} over its {{convert|151|km|adj=on}} course.<ref name=bonzle/>

In the [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Australian Aboriginal]] [[Braiakaulung]] dialect of the [[Gunai language]], there are two variant names for the Wonnangatta River; '''''Wontwun''''';<ref name=vicnames1/><ref name=vicnames2/> and '''''WonnangaUa'''''.<ref name=vicnames3/> Their meanings are not clearly defined.

{{Rivers of the East Gippsland catchment |state=autocollapse}}