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Description: Australia has thirteen distinguished drainage divisions as defined by the Australian Water Resources Assessment 2010, a hydrological survey conducted by the Bureau of Meteorology. Runoff from these divisions generally flows into the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean and Lake Eyre. The abbreviations stand for: NEC - North East Coast SEN - South East Coast (NSW) SEV - South East Coast (Victoria) TAS - Tasmania MDB - Murray Darling Basin SAG - South Australian Gulf SWP - South Western Plateau SWC - South West Coast PG - Pilbara-Gascoyne NWP - North Western Plateau TTS - Tanami-Timor Sea Coast LEB - Lake Eyre Basin CC - Carpentaria Coast Adapted from: http://www.bom.gov.au/water/geofabric/documents/BOM002_Map_Poster_A3_Web.pdf
Title: Drainage Divisions of Australia
Credit: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9988c4b6-6051-4435-9e70-d128ca6bff91
Author: Commonwealth of Australia (Bureau of Meteorology)
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