Seven Creeks

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Swimmers at Gooram Falls Reserve on Seven Creeks, Victoria

Seven Creeks is a creek in Victoria, Australia that is a part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The confluence of this river is located in Kialla, flowing into the Goulburn River. The creek passes through Euroa. [1]

In 1836 during his "Australia Felix" expedition, Major Mitchell camped on the banks of Seven Creeks at Euroa.

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ANGLESEY. Bounded on the west by part of the eastern boundary of the County of Dalhousie, namely, by the River Goulburn from the confluence of Hughes's Creek to the confluence of Dabyminga Creek; thence by Dabyminga Creek to its source in the Great Dividing Range; on the south by the Great Dividing Range to the main source of the River Goulburn; on the east by the range dividing the waters of the main source of the Goulburn and Big Rivers from those of the Rubicon and Snod-por-dock Creek northward to Mount Torbrick; thence by Jerusalem Creek to its confluence with the River Goulburn; thence by the River Goulburn to the confluence of the River Delatite; thence by the River Delatite and its north-west arm to the Dividing Range between the last named arm and Septimus Creek; and on the north by that range to the source of Hughes's Creek; and thence by Hughes's Creek to its confluence with the River Goulburn, excepting the country included in the Boroughs of Seymour and Avenel ... DALHOUSIE. Commencing at the junction of the Rivers Campaspe and Coliban; thence by a line south-easterly to the source of the Mclvor or Patterson's Creek; thence by a line north-east to the confluence of Hughes's Creek with the River Goulburn; on the east by the River Goulburn until it joins the Dabyminga Creek, by that creek to its source in the Dividing Range; on

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Coordinates: 36°29′S145°25′E / 36.483°S 145.417°E / -36.483; 145.417