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Location: | 7-005238 to 15-970213. A five kilometre section of the Gellibrand River beginning near Mt McKenzie and extending to one kilometre below the confluence of Kennedys Creek. | Meanders of the Gellibrand River |
Access: | Gellibrand River Road. | |
Ownership: | Crown land (River Reserve) and private land. | |
Geomorphology: | This site illustrates the changing meander form of the Gellibrand River along a sector of confined flood plain north of Devondale. The contorted or tortuous meander sector is on the wider flood plain near the confluence of Kennedys Creek. Unlike the river sector at Sites 7.7 and 7.10, levee banks are not well developed on the wide flood plain. The river valley is here aligned along a fault trending north-easterly to the west of the valley. | |
Significance: | Regional. The abrupt change in meander patterns illustrates one of the varied characteristics of the longest river in the Otway region. |