Holroyd River

The Holroyd River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Holroyd
Location of Holroyd River mouth in Queensland
EtymologyIn honour of Arthur Holroyd[1]
Location
CountryAustralia
StateQueensland
RegionFar North Queensland
Physical characteristics
SourceMcIlwraith Range
 • locationbelow Mount White
 • elevation187 m (614 ft)
MouthGulf of Carpentaria
 • location
Kulinchin Outstation
 • coordinates
14°09′54″S 141°35′44″E
 • elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Length325 km (202 mi)
Basin size10,286 km2 (3,971 sq mi)
Discharge 
 • average57 m3/s (2,000 cu ft/s)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • rightKendall River
[2]

Course and features

The headwaters of the river rise south of Mount White in the McIlwraith Range in the Great Dividing Range. It then flows westwards forming a series of braided channels and continuing through the uninhabited country until merging with the Kendall river near the Kulinchin Outstation and discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The river is joined by eight tributaries including the Kendall River, Sandlewood Creek, Station Creek, Potlappa Creek, The Big Spring, First Spring, Christmas Creek and the Kendle River.[2]

The catchment area of the creek occupies an 10,286 square kilometres (3,971 sq mi) of which an area of 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) is composed of estuarine wetlands.[3] A variety of landscapes are found within the catchment including tropical savannah woodlands, open grasslands, beach ridges, wetlands and paperbark stands.[4]

The river has a mean annual discharge of 1,799 gigalitres (3.957×1011 imp gal; 4.752×1011 US gal).[5]

The river was named in 1864 by the pastoralist Francis Lascelles Jardine after the explorer, doctor and politician Arthur Todd Holroyd.[1]

The traditional owners of the area are the Wik, Bakanh, Thaayorre and Kaanju peoples who inhabited the drainage basin for thousands of years.[4]

Kugu Muminh (also known as Kuku-Muminh. See also related Wik languages) is one of the traditional languages which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire.[6]

See also

References
  1. "Holroyd River (entry 16021)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  2. "Map of Holroyd River, QLD". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  3. "Holroyd river drainage basin". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  4. "Holroyd River - Conservation and cultural values". The Wilderness Society. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  5. "holroyd river sub-basin within the (Northern) Holroyd Plain sub-bioregion". Queensland Government. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  6. This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Indigenous languages map of Queensland". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
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