| King River | |
|---|---|
 Upper King River Bridge South Coast Highway near Albany, Western Australia | |
| Location | |
| Country | Australia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | East of Redmond |
| • elevation | 72 metres (236 ft) [1] |
| Mouth | |
• location | Oyster Harbour |
• elevation | sea level |
| Length | 27 kilometres (17 mi) |
| Basin size | 402 km2 (155 sq mi) [2] |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 1.08 m3/s (34,000 ML/a; 38 cu ft/s) |
The King River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.
The river rises east of the town of Redmond and then flows for approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) and along with the Kalgan River drains into Oyster Harbour and finally King George Sound north east of Albany.
The land along the river is estimated as being 83% cleared yet the water quality is generally healthy fresh water. The salinity level of the King River at discharge is 800 mg/L. [3]
The river was named after an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts, Phillip Parker King, by Thomas Braidwood Wilson while exploring the region in December 1829. [4] The estuarine zone of the river is from the mouth to 7 kilometres (4 mi) upstream to where Mill Brook joins the river.
The area around Lower King was a known haunt for sealers in 1831. [5] It was settled later in the 1830s but the townsite was not gazetted until 1959. [6]
The Lower King River Bridge was constructed in 1898 and washed away during a storm in 1900. Both the upper and lower bridges were damaged during storms in 1902. In 1944 and 1947 parts of the lower bridge collapsed and rebuilt. [5]
In January 2019 the Upper King Bridge was burned by a deliberately lit fire [7] causing A$300,000 in damage. [8]
The main tributary of the King River is Mill Brook which joins the King about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north-west of the Upper King Bridge.
Margaret River is a town in the South West of Western Australia, located in the valley of the eponymous Margaret River, 277 kilometres (172 mi) south of Perth, the state capital. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River.
Western Australia is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of Australia, excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,527,013 square kilometres (975,685 sq mi). It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. As of 2021, the state has 2.76 million inhabitants—11 percent of the national total. The vast majority live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.
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Rivers of Western Australia | |
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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 | |
