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