Kendall River (Queensland)

This article is about a river in Queensland. For a river of the same name in Canada, see Kendall River.
Kendall
River
Name origin: In honour of Thomas Kendall[1]
Country Australia
State Queensland
Region Far North Queensland
Source Great Dividing Range
 - location northwest of Bally Junction
 - elevation 154 m (505 ft)
Mouth confluence with the Holroyd River
 - location near the Kulinchin Outstation
 - elevation 3 m (10 ft)
 - coordinates 14°12′21″S 141°37′39″E / 14.20583°S 141.62750°E / -14.20583; 141.62750Coordinates: 14°12′21″S 141°37′39″E / 14.20583°S 141.62750°E / -14.20583; 141.62750
Length 167 km (104 mi)
Basin 4,851 km2 (1,873 sq mi)
Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
[2]

The Kendall River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range and flows in a south westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country across Cape York Peninsula. It eventually discharges into the Holroyd River near the Kulinchin Outstation and then onto the Gulf of Carpentaria.[2]

The river has a catchment area of 4,851 square kilometres (1,873 sq mi) of which an area of 93 square kilometres (36 sq mi) is composed of palustrine wetlands.[3]

The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan[4] and Mimungkun peoples.[5]

Named by the pastoralists, Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander William Jardine in 1863. It was originally known as Kendall Creek and was named after a poet friend of their surveyor, Thomas Henry Kendall.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Kendall River (entry 17925)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Map of Kendall River, QLD". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Kendall River drainage basin". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Wik-Munkan". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Mimungkun". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
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