Holroyd River

Holroyd
River
Name origin: In honour of Arthur Holroyd
Country	Australia
State	Queensland
Region	Far North Queensland
Tributaries
- right	Kendall River
Source	McIlwraith Range
- location	below Mount White
- elevation	187 m (614 ft)
Mouth	Gulf of Carpentaria
- location	Kulinchin Outstation
- elevation	0 m (0 ft)
- coordinates
Length	325 km (202 mi)
Basin	10,286 km2 (3,971 sq mi)
Discharge
- average	57 m3/s (2,013 cu ft/s)
Location of Holroyd River mouth in Queensland

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

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.

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. A variety of landscapes are found within the catchment including tropical savannah woodlands, open grasslands, beach ridges, wetlands and paperbark stands.

The river has a mean annual discharge of .

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

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

See also

• List of rivers of Queensland