Birrarung Marr, Melbourne area", prepared for the City of Melbourne, 1998 (unpublished). Georgina Whitehead, "Civilising the City: A History of Melbourne’s Public Gardens". State Library of Victoria, 1997. Birrarung Marr, Melbourne Birrarung Marr is an inner-city park between the central business district in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and the Yarra River. It was opened in 2002. The name means 'river of mists' and 'river bank' in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people, the Indigenous inhabitants at the time of European settlement of the Melbourne area. The 8 hectare (20 acre) park lies immediately to the south-east of the central business district, between Flinders
Avon River (Western Australia) settled European agricultural areas in Western Australia, the catchment area has extensive soil salinity issues, which have attracted governmental programmes to alleviate the loss of agricultural lands. Catchment groups that oversee projects in the tributary parts of the river have had considerable support and funding from commercial and non-governmental sources as well. Avon River (Western Australia) The Avon River is a river in Western Australia. A tributary of the Swan River, the Avon flows from source to mouth, with a catchment area of . Lake Yealering in the Shire of Wickepin is the point of origin for the upper Avon