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Billabong is an Australian English
Australian English

Australian English is the form of the English language spoken in Australia....
 word meaning a small lake
Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
, specifically an oxbow lake
Oxbow lake

An oxbow lake is a U-shaped body of water formed when a wide meander from the mainstem of a river is cut off to create a lake. This landform is called an oxbow lake for the distinctive curved shape that results from this process....
, a stagnant
Water stagnation

Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing. Stagnant water can be a major environmental hazard....
 pool of water
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
 attached to a waterway. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a creek
Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
 or river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end.






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Yellow Waters Billabong July 2001
Billabong is an Australian English
Australian English

Australian English is the form of the English language spoken in Australia....
 word meaning a small lake
Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
, specifically an oxbow lake
Oxbow lake

An oxbow lake is a U-shaped body of water formed when a wide meander from the mainstem of a river is cut off to create a lake. This landform is called an oxbow lake for the distinctive curved shape that results from this process....
, a stagnant
Water stagnation

Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing. Stagnant water can be a major environmental hazard....
 pool of water
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
 attached to a waterway. Billabongs are usually formed when the path of a creek
Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
 or river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 changes, leaving the former branch with a dead end. Despite some claims of a Scottish Gaelic origin, the word is most likely from the Wiradjuri
Wiradjuri language

Wiradjuri is a Pama-Nyungan languages language of the Wiradhuric languages subgroup. It was the traditional language of the Wiradhuri people of Australia, but is no longer in general use....
 term bilaba?.

Billabongs appear relatively often in Australian literature
Australian literature

Australian literature began soon after the settlement of the country by Europeans. Common themes include indigenous and settler identity, alienation, exile and relationship to place - but it is a varied and contested area....
. One of the most prominent references is in the opening line of Banjo Paterson
Banjo Paterson

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood....
's famous folk song "Waltzing Matilda
Waltzing Matilda

"Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad, a country music folk song, and has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia"....
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