| has gloss | eng: Jacobs Creek (formerly Jacob's Creek) is a small creek that runs through the wine-producing region of the Barossa Valley, 80km north of Adelaide, South Australia. The creek itself is only several kilometres long and flows westwards from its beginning in the Barossa Ranges, eventually meeting the North Para River. It was first discovered and surveyed by William Jacob (1814-1902), the assistant surveyor to Colonel William Light, in 1839 as part of a wider survey of the Barossa region. It was named in his honour in the early 1840s. In the local aboriginal dialect it is called "Cowieaurita", meaning "yellow-brown water". |
