a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently
a branch of a river running to a dead end
a hole which is still full of water in a dried-up riverbed
an Australian word meaning a pool or lagoon left behind in a river or in a branch of a river when the water flow ceases
an isolated pond left behind after a river changes course
an ox bow lake- a bend of a river which has been cut off as the river changes its shape over time
an oxbow lake, formed when a meandering river cuts off one of its own loops, or it's a dead-end channel formed in a similar way
a riverside lake and, because water is very scarce in Australia, conservation is most important
a waterhole, the jumbuck is a sheep that came to the waterhole to quench his thirst, and the impoverished hobo (i
An efflux from a stream, usually an old bend in the stream, which has been cut off by erosion and deposition. When the fall of a stream is only a few centimetres per kilometre channel is usually incapable of clearing flood waters, which overflow into this efflux. As the water recede the efflux or billabong becomes a pool or a series of pools, which in dry periods may completely dry up.
a waterhole near a river or creek which dries up in the dry season.
a river meander that has been cut off and become isolated from the main channel.
Waterhole in a dry riverbed
A backwater channel, often formed by a cut-off river bend, that forms a lagoon or pool when river levels fall.
river branch that forms backwater or stagnant pool.
Billabong is an Australian English word used to refer to an oxbow lake, a still pool of water cut off from a waterway. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a stream or river changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end. The word is derived from two Indigenous Australian words, specifically from the Wiradjuri ('weir-add-jeer-ee') language of south western New South Wales: bila meaning "river" and bang meaning "continuing in time or space."