Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp
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Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp
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The Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp was a large freshwater swamp located to the south east of Melbourne, Victoria. It drained an area of West Gippsland, with several waterways including Cardinia Creek and the Bunyip River. The Koo-Wee-Rup swamp originally covered more than 40,000 hectares of dense swamp paperbark, with some open grasslands, reed beds and bullrushes. Known as The Great Swamp, it was an impassable barrier for travellers between Melbourne and Gippsland. Although the fringes of the swamp had been
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2024-01-16T01:45:49Z
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