Duck River (New South Wales)
| Duck | |
| River | |
| Duck River, looking towards the Mona Street bridge, South Granville in 1976. | |
| Country | Australia |
|---|---|
| State | New South Wales |
| Municipality | Sydney |
| Part of | Parramatta River |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | A'Becketts Creek |
| Primary source | Sydney Water Supply Pipeline |
| - location | Birrong/Sefton |
| - coordinates | 33°52′42″S 151°0′47″E / 33.87833°S 151.01306°E / -33.87833; 151.01306 |
| Secondary source | A'Becketts Creek |
| - location | Rosehill |
| - coordinates | 33°49′46.98″S 151°1′21.93″E / 33.8297167°S 151.0227583°E / -33.8297167; 151.0227583 |
| Mouth | Parramatta River |
| - location | Silverwater |
| - coordinates | 33°49′28.87″S 151°2′56.35″E / 33.8246861°S 151.0489861°E / -33.8246861; 151.0489861 |
| Length | 11.5 km (7 mi) |
Duck River is a perennial stream and southern tributary of the Parramatta River, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Read more about Duck River (New South Wales): History, Geography, Wellington Road Reserve, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words duck, river and/or south:
“She shall get a duke, my dear,
As duck do get a drake;
And she shall have a young prince,
For her own fair sake.”
—Unknown. Green Grass (l. 9–12)
“In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell’s Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction, where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“I don’t have any doubts that there will be a place for progressive white people in this country in the future. I think the paranoia common among white people is very unfounded. I have always organized my life so that I could focus on political work. That’s all I want to do, and that’s all that makes me happy.”
—Hettie V., South African white anti-apartheid activist and feminist. As quoted in Lives of Courage, ch. 21, by Diana E. H. Russell (1989)