Snowy River

British  

noun

1. a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)

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Example Sentences

Four miles north sits Snowy River Dessert Cafe, the popular Korean dessert chain that serves bingsoo ice cream and other Asian sweets.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2022

On a windswept rise above the mighty Snowy River in the Australian Alps, two women are crouched over rocks encircling a large, flat granite stone, their hands placed reverently on the ground beside it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019

The brumby’s place in the state’s largest national park, through which the Snowy River flows, is an emotive argument in Australia.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2018

Aboriginal people, she says, usually talk about themselves as being from “salt”, “freshwater”, or “desert” country – or even “ice”, as her Ngarigu family’s country around the Snowy River is referred to.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2018

I led you in this way unsuspectingly as far as the Snowy River.

From In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant by Verne, Jules