Dry Creek (South Australia): Difference between revisions

{{Short description|River in South Australia}}

{{Other uses|Dry Creek (disambiguation){{!}}Dry Creek|Dry Creek, South Australia}}

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'''Dry Creek''' or '''Dry Creek Drain''' is a seasonal stream in [[South Australia]]<ref name="Bailliere">Whitworth (1866) p. 69</ref> which passes through the [[Adelaide]] suburbs of [[Wynn Vale, South Australia|Wynn Vale]], [[Modbury, South Australia|Modbury]], [[Walkley Heights, South Australia|Walkley Heights]] and [[Pooraka, South Australia|Pooraka]]. The nearby suburb of [[Dry Creek, South Australia|Dry Creek]] and [[Dry Creek railway station]] are named after the stream.

==Description==

In season Dry Creek flows from its source near [[Yatala Vale, South Australia|Yatala Vale]] in the [[Mount Lofty Ranges]] to the [[Barker Inlet]] of the [[Gulf St Vincent]] via a manufactured drain near [[Globe Derby Park, South Australia|Globe Derby Park]]. The flooded state of the plain either side of Dry Creek after heavy rain is presumed to be the source of the local place name 'Yatala' (as in [[Hundred of Yatala]] and [[Yatala Vale]]). The name is likely derived from the indigenous word 'yertalla', which means "water running by the side of a river".<ref name="AmeryEtymology">{{cite book|url=http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p29191/pdf/ch125.pdf|chapter=Weeding Out Spurious Etymologies: Toponyms On The Adelaide Plains|author=Amery, Rob| author-link= Rob Amery|title=The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia |pages=165–180 |editor1=Luise Hercus |editor1-link= Luise Hercus|editor2=Flavia Hodges|editor3=Jane Simpson |isbn=9781921536571 |publisher=ANU Press |date=March 2009 |quote=Yatala most likely derives from yertalla 'water running by the side of a river; inundation; cascade'. As Manning (1986:238) observes 'in winter when water flowed from the hills, over the plains, the Dry Creek area became a morass'.}}</ref> Dry Creek is mostly dry in summer and flows through a deep [[gully]] at the rear of the prison with outcrops of exposed [[pre-Cambrian]] rocks that were extensively [[Quarry|quarried]] as part of prison activity.<ref>Lewis (1985) pp. 174–175</ref>

[[Yatala Labour Prison]] was established in the 1854 next to Dry Creek and was alternately known at the time as the ''Dry Creek Prison'' or the ''Stockade''. The rock from the quarry was transported to Adelaide via the [[Stockade railway station]] (opened in 1857; closed 1961), with the area around the station and quarry being since redevelopedasthe [[Stockade Botanical Park]].

A 14&nbsp;km long walkway, known as Dry Creek River Trail, runs along the creek in the Dry Creek Reserve.<ref name="walking">{{Cite news|url=https://www.walkingsa.org.au/walk/find-a-place-to-walk/dry-creek-river-trails/|title=Dry Creek River Trails {{!}} Dry Creek Linear Park {{!}} Walking SA|work=Walking SA|access-date=2017-09-20|language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Dry Creek south bank, Walkley Heights.jpg|thumb|left|Dry Creek at Walkley Heights]]

[[File:Dry Creek drain facing southeast.jpg|thumb|Dry Creek drain (which forms the border of the suburbs of [[Dry Creek, South Australia|Dry Creek]] and [[Globe Derby Park, South Australia|Globe Derby Park]]) shown facing south east in late spring]]

* {{Cite book |editor=Whitworth, Robert Percy |title=Baillière's South Australian gazetteer and road guide: containing the most recent and accurate information as to every place in the Colony |publisher=F.F. Bailliere |year=1866}}

{{Rivers of South Australia}}

[[Category:Rivers of Adelaide]]