Geography
The Manning River is fed by the Avon River, Rowley's River, the Nowendoc River, the Barnard River, the Little Manning River, the Barrington River, and the Gloucester River. Once the river reaches Taree it splits and the southern arm flows into the Pacific Ocean at Old Bar. The northern arm is joined by the Dawson River and the Landsdowne River and meets the ocean at Harrington Hence the river has two separate entrances (or mouths).
Wingham was established at the furthest point supply boats could reach up the river and became the regions major port. The old cargo wharf at Wingham Brush has been recently refurbished. The town of Tinonee was also settled on the river near Taree.
The Manning River is the only double delta river in the southern Hemisphere and the only permanent multiple entrance river in the world other than the Nile River Egypt. The Manning is one of only a few Australian mainland rivers to receive annual winter melting snow deposits. These deposits flow from its tributary the Barrington River in Barrington Tops Mountains into the Manning.
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