Kendall River (Queensland)

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Kendall
Australia Queensland relief location map.jpg
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Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
EtymologyIn honour of Thomas Kendall [1]
Location
Country Australia
State Queensland
Region Far North Queensland
Physical characteristics
Source Great Dividing Range
 • locationnorthwest of Bally Junction
 • elevation154 m (505 ft)
Mouth confluence with the Holroyd River
 • location
near the Kulinchin Outstation
 • coordinates
 14°12′21″S141°37′39″E / 14.20583°S 141.62750°E / -14.20583; 141.62750
 • elevation
3 m (9.8 ft)
Length167 km (104 mi)
Basin size4,851 km2 (1,873 sq mi)
[2]

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

Contents

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]

History

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

Kugu Nganhcara (also known as Wik, Wiknantjara, Wik Nganychara, Wik Ngencherr) is a traditional language of the area, which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire. [6]

The river was 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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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. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Mimungkun". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ↑ CC BY icon-80x15.png 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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