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Estuaries of Australia

The separation of the types is related to the process based classification scheme where the energy sources define the group ^[1]

• Tide-dominated delta - River energy ^[2] Burdekin River in Queensland and Macarthur River NT
• Wave-dominated delta - River energy ^[3] Manning River (NSW) and Yarra River (Vic)
• Tide-dominated estuary - Tide energy ^[4] a good example is Ord River (WA) and Broad Sound (Queensland)
• Wave-dominated estuary - Wave energy ^[5] - good example Peel Inlet Western Australia and Lake Illawarra NSW.
• Tidal flat/creek - Tide energy ^[6] Good enough Bay (WA) and Moonlight Creek (QLD)
• Strandplain (and coastal lagoons) - Wave energy ^[7] - good example coastal lagoon Irwin Inlet WA, strandplain Mooball Creek NSW.

The coastal regions of Australia are determined into estuary drainage basins^[8][9]

• Tasmania - ^[10]
• Temperate East - Tweed River to East Gippsland - wave dominated coast ^[11][12]
• Subtropical east - ^[13]
• GBR - Dry Tropics - ^[14]
• GBR - Wet Tropics - ^[15]
• Gulf of Carpentaria - ^[16]
• Top End - ^[17]
• Kimberley - ^[18]
• Pilbara - ^[19]
• South West - ^[20]
• Gulfs - Gulf St Vincent to Spencer Gulf - wave dominated in south, tidal in northern parts ^[21]
• Bass Strait - Mallacoota Inlet to Lower Lakes - wave dominated and coastal lagoons ^[22]

• Estuaries of Western Australia