Salt Pan Creek

Salt Pan Creek
Etymology	Early settlers took salt from the swampland by evaporating the salt water.[1]
Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Sydney Basin (IBRA), Canterbury-Bankstown, Southern Sydney
Local government areas	City of Canterbury-Bankstown, Georges River
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	west of Mount Lewis
Mouth	confluence with the Georges River
• location	Earlwood
Length	7 km (4.3 mi)
Basin size	26 km2 (10 sq mi)
Basin features
River system	Georges River
[1]

Salt Pan Creek, an urban watercourse of the Georges River catchment, is located in the Canterbury-Bankstown region of Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features[]

Mangroves on the shores of Salt Pan Creek.

Salt Pan Creek rises west southwest of the suburb of Mount Lewis, within the City of Canterbury-Bankstown local government area, and flows generally south by east through local government area, before reaching its confluence with the Georges River, at Riverwood. The catchment area of the creek is approximately 26 square kilometres (10 sq mi), and is subject to flooding due to vegetation modification and urban development.^[2]

Vegetation in the catchment area consists of three endangered ecological species, including coastal saltmarsh, Cooks River Castlereagh Ironbark Forest, and Shale / Sandstone Transition Forest. Vegetation varies substantially throughout the catchment area and includes freshwater environments, estuarine environments, mangroves and saltmarshes, riparian and terrestrial environments, which provide important habitat for native fauna.^[2]

History[]

From as early as 1809, the land surrounding Salt Pan Creek was the site of uprising by Indigenous Australians against colonial settlement. Tedbury, the son of Pemulwuy, an Aboriginal elder, was involved in a skirmish that saw Frederick Meredith, a European settler, injured with a spear and forced to abandon his farm. It is understood that Meredith and another settler, sought to clear and cultivate land surrounding the creek that may have been an important food source for Aborigines.^[3] Between 1926 and 1935, lands surrounding the creek became a focal point for indigenous rights, as they set up squatter camps that consisted of refugee families whose traditional lands had been resumed and also those seeking to escape the Aboriginal Protection Board.^[3]

Salt Pan Creek was named by early colonial settlers, who took salt from the swampland by evaporating the salt water.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• "Georges River catchment" (map). Office of Environment and Heritage. Government of New South Wales.

Coordinates: 33°57′S 151°03′E / 33.950°S 151.050°E / -33.950; 151.050