Tasmania
How Tasmania drains
19 catchments, clipped at the border — a catchment that crosses into another state carries on there. Pick one to open its full drainage tree.
Catchment boundaries and stream network: Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric), Bureau of Meteorology, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. State boundary: Australian Bureau of Statistics, CC BY 4.0. Simplified for display.
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Meander River
A hundred and seventeen kilometres from the Great Western Tiers to the South Esk at Hadspen — fast clear water above Huntsman Lake, the shingle riffles and long runs from the dam to Deloraine that IFS calls the river's best fly water, slow broadwaters through the poppy and pasture country below — wild browns, seventy years of the Deloraine gauge drawn on the page, and a lower river open to the end of May.
Arthurs Lake
Sixty-four square kilometres of Central Plateau storage that IFS's twenty-year angler survey puts at two fish a day — a wild, self-sustaining brown trout lake, the best mayfly water on the highlands from November to February, Cowpaddock Bay from the shore, four ramps, two campgrounds, and weather that turns in an hour.
Brumbys Creek
The tailwater below Great Lake — forty-four kilometres from the Poatina power station to the Macquarie through three low weirs built in the 1960s to soften the releases, a meadow stream in look and a hydro tailrace in behaviour, wild browns with rainbows, mayfly and damsels over the weed, a gauge that reads temperature, and a level that moves with the turbines.
The catchments
Tasmania
19 catchments · 3,123 waters in TASLooking beyond Tasmania? The national map shows all 218 catchments, and each catchment page lists its drainage wherever it runs.