australian-rivers

Every mapped stream and river in Australia! Map created with QGIS using data for 1.3 million streams from Geoscience Australia GEODATA TOPO 250K vector datasets. Many arid-zone rivers and streams in these maps are highly ephemeral, and may only flow once every few years or even decades. Streams are weighted by both ephemerality (perennial or non-perennial) and hierarchy (minor or major), with the highest weighting for major perennial rivers (i.e. Murray River).

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As featured on:

• The Wall Street Journal (http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-maps-can-serve-as-scientific-time-machines-1462373621)
• Yahoo Travel (https://au.travel.yahoo.com/news/a/31392369/a-surprising-view-of-the-driest-continent-australia/)
• Lonely Planet News (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/04/19/australia-rivers-streams-maps/)
• GearJunkie (https://gearjunkie.com/map-data-australian-rivers)
• AWOL (http://awol.com.au/so-really-how-dry-is-our-sunburnt-country/26813)
• Techly (http://www.techly.com.au/2016/04/20/these-mesmerising-maps-of-australias-streams-and-rivers-will-blow-you-away/)

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Entire Australia

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North-west Queensland

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North-east Murray-Darling Basin

Top End, Northern Territory

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North-west Queensland

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Central Queensland

Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia

Source dataset

Geoscience Australia (2006). Geodata topo 250k series 3. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. Available at http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_63999 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. Full terms at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.