Kendall River (Queensland)
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Kendall | |
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Name origin: In honour of Thomas Kendall[1] | |
Country | Australia |
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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) |
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Length | 167 km (104 mi) |
Basin | 4,851 km2 (1,873 sq mi) |
Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
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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
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