Jacobs River (New South Wales)

For other uses, see Jacobs River.

River in New South Wales, Australia

Jacobs River Tongaroo River

Location
Country	Australia
State	New South Wales
Region	Australian Alps (IBRA), Snowy Mountains
Local government area	Snowy Monaro Regional Council
Physical characteristics

Source	Snowy Mountains, Great Dividing Range
• location	near Mount Stony
• elevation	1,230 m (4,040 ft)

Mouth	confluence with the Snowy River
• location	below Stockyard Ridge
• elevation	266 m (873 ft)
Length	26 km (16 mi)
Basin features
River system	Snowy River catchment
Tributaries
• left	Teatree Creek, Tuross Creek, Thatchers Hole Creek, Ingebirah Creek
• right	Connors Camp Creek
National park	Kosciuszko NP

The Jacobs River, a perennial river of the Snowy River catchment, is located in the Snowy Mountains region of New South Wales, Australia.

Course and features

The Jacobs River rises below Purgatory Hill within The Snowy Mountains Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, contained within the Kosciuszko National Park, on the western slopes of Mount Stony. The river flows generally west and then southeast, joined by five minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Snowy River below Stockyard Ridge. The river descends 966 metres (3,169 ft) over its 26 kilometres (16 mi) course.

References

^ "Jacobs River". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
^ "Map of Tongaroo Or Jacobs River, NSW". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 2 June 2013.

v t e Rivers of the Southern Rivers catchment, New South Wales, Australia
Illawarra	Lake Illawarra Minnamurra Port Kembla Macquarie Rivulet
Shoalhaven	Corang Endrick Jerrabattgulla Kangaroo Mongarlowe Shoalhaven St Georges Basin Crooked
Eurobodalla	Araluen Back Bettowynd Bimberamala Buckenbowra Clyde Deua Moruya Queens Pound Tomaga Tuross Wadbilliga Yadboro Yowaka Yowrie
Far South Coast	Bega Bemboka Bermagui Brogo Dry Genoa Imlay Merimbula Lake Merrica Murrah Nadgee Nullica Nunnock Pambula Towamba Twofold Bay Wallagaraugh White Rock Wog Wog Wonboyn
Snowy River	Bendoc Berrima Bombala Burrungubugge Coolumbooka Delegate Eucumbene Gungarlin Ingeegoodbee Jacobs Little Plains Little Thredbo Maclaughlin Mowamba Pinch Queensborough Snowy Thredbo Undowah
Category

River systems and rivers of New South Wales, Australia

Rivers flowing towards the Coral and Tasman seas of the South Pacific Ocean

Rivers of the Northern Rivers catchment	Aberfoyle Apsley Back Barcoongere Bellinger Beaury Bielsdown Blicks Blue Mountain Bobo Boonoo Boonoo Boundary (Glen Fernaigh) Boundary (Nymboida) Boyd Brunswick Byrrill Camden Haven Cataract Chandler Chandlers Christmas Clarence Clouds Coldstream Commissioners Waters Coopers Corindi Doyles Dyke Eden Ellenborough Esk Evans Forbes Gara Georges Glen Fernaigh Guy Fawkes Hastings Henry Kalang Kangaroo Kunderang Leycester Little Murray Little Nymboida Macleay Mann Maria Maryland Nambucca Never Never Nowlands Nymboida Oaky Oban Orara Oxley Pappinbarra Pipers Ralfes Richmond Rosewood Rous Sandon Sandy Sara Shannon Stewarts Styx Taylors Arm Thone Tia Timbarra Tobins Tooloom Towallum Tweed Urumbilum Warnes Wilson Wilsons Wollomombi Wooli Wooli Yarrow Yarrowitch
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Rivers of the Sydney Basin	Avoca Lake Avon Bargo Bedford Budgewoi Lake Burke Capertee Cataract Colo Cooks Coorongooba Cordeaux Coxs Duck Du Faur Erskine Georges Grose Hacking Hawkesbury Hollanders Jenolan Jooriland Kanangra Kedumba Kowmung Lake Macquarie Lake Munmorah Lane Cove Little (Oberon) Little (Wingecarribee) Little (Wollondilly) Macdonald Mangrove Mogo Mooney Mooney Mulwaree Nattai Nepean Ourimbah Paddys Parramatta Pittwater River Lett Rush Tarlo Terrigal Lagoon Tonalli Tuggerah Lake Tuglow Wamberal Lagoon Warragamba Webbs Wingecarribee Wolgan Wollangambe Wollemi Wollondilly Woronora Wyong
Rivers of the Southern Rivers catchment	Araluen Back Bega Bemboka Bendoc Bermagui Berrima Bettowynd Bimberamala Bombala Brogo Buckenbowra Burrungubugge Clyde Coolumbooka Corang Delegate Deua Endrick Eucumbene Genoa Goobarragandra Gungarlin Imlay Ingeegoodbee Jacobs Jerrabattgulla Kangaroo Lake Illawarra Little Plains Little Thredbo Maclaughlin Merimbula Lake Merrica Minnamurra Mongarlowe Moruya Mowamba Murrah Nadgee Nullica Nunnock Pambula Pinch Port Kembla Queensborough Queens Pound Shoalhaven Snowy St Georges Basin Thredbo Tomaga Towamba Tuross Twofold Bay Undowah Wadbilliga Wallagaraugh White Rock Wog Wog Wonboyn Yadboro Yowaka Yowrie

Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin

Murray catchment

Darling
catchment

Barwon / Macintyre / Macquarie
sub-catchments

Murrumbidgee
catchment

Lachlan sub-catchment	Abercrombie Belubula Bolong Boorowa Cadiangullong Crookwell Goobang Gunningbland Isabella Jerrara Jerrawa Mirrool Peelwood Phils Pudman Retreat

Category

v t e Snowy Monaro Region, New South Wales, Australia
Townships and Villages	Adaminaby Berridale Bombala Bredbo Cooma Delegate Jindabyne Thredbo Village
Localities and rural places	Anglers Reach Blue Cow Mountain Bullocks Flat Charlotte Pass Dalgety Dry Plain Guthega Michelago Nimmitabel Old Adaminaby Perisher Valley Pine Valley Rhine Falls Shannons Flat Smiggin Holes Wambrook
National parks and other natural features	Kosciuszko National Park Valentine Falls
Rivers and other watercourses	Berrima Burrungubugge Cooma Back Eucumbene Goorudee Gungarlin Ingeegoodbee Jacobs Little Thredbo Mowamba Pinch Snowy River Thredbo
Dams and/or associated reservoirs	Eucumbene Guthega Island Bend Jindabyne Jounama
Mountain ranges	Snowy Mountains
Attractions	Alpine Way Barry Way Big Trout Blue Lake Kiandra Lake Albina Lake Cootapatamba Mount Kosciuszko Mount Townsend Perisher Ski Resort Selwyn Snowfields Skitube Smiggin Holes Snowy Mountains Highway Snowy Scheme Museum
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