Currency Creek (postcode 5214) is a township and locality in South Australia on the western shore of Lake Alexandrina about 6 km north of Goolwa, beside a seasonal stream bearing the same name – Currency Creek – which flows into Lake Alexandrina.

[citation needed] In December 1837, while exploring the Lake and Murray Mouth looking for other outlets to the sea, a party led by Thomas Bewes Strangways and Young Bingham Hutchinson discovered the waterway while using a whaleboat borrowed from the Encounter Bay fishery.

It is notably large compared to the township for the reason that it has serviced the entire district for well over a century.

[citation needed] Boundaries for the locality were created on 31 August 2000 for the "long established name" and include the Government Town of Currency Creek[1] Currency Creek lends its name to a wine region that stretches from Port Elliot in the west, to Lake Alexandrina to the east, and includes Hindmarsh Island.

[10] Memorials to River Murray pioneers at Currency Creek cemetery include: See also Murray–Darling steamboat people