The Buckenbowra River is a tributary of the Clyde River

Clyde River (New South Wales)

The Clyde River is a river on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. The river was known to Indigenous Australians as the Bhundoo....

 on the southern coast of New South Wales

New South Wales

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, Australia

Australia

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The 32 km (19.9 mi) watercourse rises approximately 1.6 km (0.994196378639691 mi) northeast of the village of Monga, flows through a series of heavily wooded gorges and merges with the Clyde around 5 km (3 mi) from the town of Batemans Bay

Batemans Bay, New South Wales

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History

The original inhabitants of the land were Aborigines

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

 of the Walbanja clan. European settlement occurred in the 1830's when a horse trail was established running beside the waterway. In the 1850's this rough track was replaced with a convict

Convict

A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison", sometimes referred to in slang as simply a "con". Convicts are often called prisoners or inmates. Persons convicted and sentenced to non-custodial sentences often are not termed...

-built road, supported in cuttings by dry stone walls. The road was abandoned during the nineteenth century, with one forgotten 770 m (0.478457007220351 mi) section rediscovered in 2005.

Flora and fauna

The gorges through which the Buckenbowra River flows are dominated by stands of casuarina

Casuarina

Casuarina is a genus of 17 species in the family Casuarinaceae, native to Australasia, southeast Asia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It was once treated as the sole genus in the family, but has been split into three genera .They are evergreen shrubs and trees growing to 35 m tall...

trees. Mangrove

Mangrove

Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes N and S...

s are endemic along the river banks, providing the only recorded habitat for the lichen

Lichen

Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium...

 Pertusaria melaleucoides.

Fish species include Australian grayling

Australian grayling

The Australian grayling is a primarily freshwater fish found in coastal rivers in Tasmania and south-eastern Australia. In past decades it has also been known as the “cucumber mullet” or “cucumber herring,” for its cucumber-like odor.-Description and Diet:The Australian grayling is a streamlined...

 and Australian bass

Australian bass

Australian bass are a small to medium sized, primarily freshwater native fish found in coastal rivers and streams along the east coast of Australia. They are a member of the Percichthyidae family and, currently, the Macquaria genus. Australian bass are an iconic, highly predatory native fish...

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