Laura River (Western Australia)

Laura River
Location
Country	Australia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Bailey Range
• elevation	409 metres (1,342  ft) [1]
Mouth
• location	Mary River
• elevation	287 metres (942  ft)
Length	86 km (53 mi) [2]

The Laura River is a river in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.

The headwaters of the river rise in the Bailey Range, approximately 20 km south of Halls Creek; the river then flows in a south-westerly direction crossing the Great Northern Highway near Dillinger Bore before discharging into the Mary River of which it is a tributary.

The river was named in 1884 by government surveyor George Russell Turner, of the 1884 Kimberley Survey Expedition, who possibly named it after Laura Eliza Frances Forrest (1877–1960), the niece of Surveyor General John Forrest. ^{[3] [2] [4]}

References

1. "Bonzle Digital Atlas – Map of Laura River, WA". 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
2. "History of river names – L". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
3. Muir, Alison; Muir, Dinee (1982). Forrest Family, Pioneers of Western Australia, 1842–1982. J.R. Muir & Son. pp. 32–33. ISBN   0-9592883-0-9.
4. "Survey of the Eucla district". The West Australian . 13 October 1885. p. 3. Retrieved 11 July 2014.

18°41′43″S127°01′06″E / 18.69528°S 127.01833°E / -18.69528; 127.01833