Pierces Creek

There are at least two places in Australia known by the name of Pierces Creek:

  • Pierces Creek, Queensland, a town in Queensland
  • Pierces Creek, Australian Capital Territory, a former forestry settlement on the outskirts of Canberra

Famous quotes containing the words pierces and/or creek:

    Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:Min the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.
    State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)