A billabong is a waterhole that has been cut off from the main river or creek (not usually called "streams" in Australia), so it often does not move.
A stream, or creek as they are known in Australia, is a waterway where there is a current, though it may be only small at times. This water does move.
No. A billabong is a waterhole that has been cut off from the main river or creek, so the water does not move (except in a flood year).
A billabong is a large pond that is formed when a river or creek changes direction, and the billabong is cut off from the main stream of water.A billabong is not just any pond of water or watering hole; it is a waterhole along a creek.
No, the water in a billabong does not move. Billabong is an Australian English word meaning a small lake, specifically an oxbow lake, a section of still water adjacent to a river or creek, which has been cut off by a change in the natural watercourse.
Billabong is the Australian term for an oxbow lake, where by definition the water is static (not flowing). However, in the tropical north, the "Wet" often brings so much rain that the river from which the billabong originated overtops its banks and that water will flow into and through the billabong.
River
billabong
Near the surface
It pushes the water in currents around the given area.
River
Billabong
Near the top
because transpiration stream is created after every water is lost