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Billabong
Australian term for an oxbow lake or other waterhole / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Billabong (disambiguation).
In Australian English, a billabong (/ˈbɪləbɒŋ/ BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake, caused by a change in course by a river channel; but other types of small lakes, ponds, or waterholes are also called billabongs. The term is probably a borrowing from Wiradjuri, an Aboriginal Australian language of New South Wales.
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