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- ↑ "Letters Kimberley coast". The Sydney Morning Herald . New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 26 May 1937. p. 8. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
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- ↑ "Ausanthrop – Australian Aboriginal tribal database". 2012. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- ↑ "History of river names – B". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
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| Rivers of the Gascoyne region | |
| Rivers of the Goldfields-Esperance region | |
| Rivers of the Great Southern region | |
| Rivers of the Kimberley region |
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| Rivers of the Mid West region | |
| Rivers of the Peel and Perth regions | |
| Rivers of the Pilbara region | |
| Rivers of the South West region | |
| Rivers of the Wheatbelt region | |
