https://github.com/robbibt/australian-rivers

Every mapped stream and river in Australia
https://github.com/robbibt/australian-rivers

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Every mapped stream and river in Australia

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/robbibt/australian-rivers
• Owner: robbibt
• Created: 2016-04-17T03:09:11.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-07-07T12:16:01.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-03T18:59:53.507Z (6 months ago)
• Language: QML
• Size: 18.1 MB
• Stars: 35
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# australian-rivers

Every mapped stream and river in Australia! Map created with [QGIS](http://www.qgis.org/en/site/) using data for 1.3 million streams from [Geoscience Australia GEODATA TOPO 250K](#data) 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). 

###Digital prints##

####High resolution digital prints are [now available from my Etsy store, EarthArtAustralia!](https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/EarthArtAustralia) (lossless PNG file format suitable for printing on large canvases and posters)

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/)

**Email:** r.bishop-taylor@unsw.edu.au

**Twitter:** [@robbibt](https://twitter.com/robbibt)

### Entire Australia ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white.jpg)

High resolution available at [EarthArtAustralia!](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/276956274/every-mapped-stream-and-river-in?ref=related-1)

### North-west Queensland ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white_sub1.jpg)

High resolution available at [EarthArtAustralia!](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/290474033/streams-of-arid-australia-high?ref=shop_home_active_5)

### North-east Murray-Darling Basin ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white_sub2.jpg)

### Top End, Northern Territory ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white_sub3.jpg)

High resolution available at [EarthArtAustralia!](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/276968566/tropical-streams-in-australias-top-end?ref=shop_home_active_16)

### North-west Queensland ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white_sub4.jpg)

High resolution available at [EarthArtAustralia!](https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/276969942/gulf-floodplains-in-queensland-australia?ref=shop_home_active_15)

### Central Queensland ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white_sub5.jpg)

### Goldfields-Esperance, Western Australia ###

![Entire Australia](Figures/streams_white_sub6.jpg)

#### 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/.