
632 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
aerial photographs taken by the present writer in 1936, It seems the Murray has 
changed its lower channel more than once, An old stream bed appears to flow 
through Narrung channel to Lake Albert aud thence to the late Woakwine sea. 
This channel may have been abandoned during the latest phase of Woakwine time, 
Much of it is preserved near Campbell Park, between Warringee Point and 
Seetion 276, Hundred of Maleolm. 
Elsewhere in South Australia wherever a search is made in suitable situations, 
traces of the 25 foot (7-5 metre) terrace can be found with relative ease. Tindale 
(1987, fig, 11) noted what appears to he the same terrace forming the older red 
sandbills of Fulham in the Gulf of St, Vineent and this terrace is evident at 
other places in the gulf, including Port Wakefield, Crocker (1946) describes a 
raised shoreline at Point Brown at 16 feet (5 metres) above sea level which is 
possibly the same, although it is more probable that it is the Post-Glacial terrace, 
since he considers it was laid down when sea level was about 10-12 feet higher than 
at present. During a coastal ear journey in 1938-1939 from north of Cairns in 
Queensland yia New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia to the eastern 
part of Western Australia, also to Esperance and parts of the coast between 
Kine George Sound and Moore River, sufficient evidence was met with to indicate 
that a terrace at approximately 25 feet is a general characteristic of at least 
one-half of the shoreline of the Australian continent. 
REEDY TERRACE. 
The dune range which marks the seaward front of the Reedy Terrace has 
been traced almost continuously, in the field, from east of the Glenelg River in 
Vietoria to north of Brown Cattle Creek in County Cardwell, a distanee of about 
150 miles. 
In the Hundred of Symon the front of the range is 12 miles from the present. 
sea shore; £urther north in the Hundred of Landseer the distance is about six miles. 
The landward edge of the strand plain fronting this terrace can be identified 
at many places, between the Iundreds of Mt. Muirhead and Landseer, over a 
distance of about 75 miles, and its altitude determined rather accurately from 
drainage survey points, as 45 feet (range, 44-5-16-7 feet). This strand plain 
gives evidence of having been a relatively mature wave-cut terrace from three ta 
four miles wide, rising with remarkably even grade from the inland side of the 
later-formed Woakwine terrace dunes. 
The sea floor deposit strewn surtace of this strand plain is so Jevel that when 
travelling upon its open surface, the distance melts into a wide mirage with the 
Woakwine and Reedy Creek duje ranges rising up on each side of it like hills. 
North of Comung the front of the terrace is so pronouneed a feature that its 
