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- ↑ "History of river names – A". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ↑ "West Midlands Hydrology Project" (PDF). 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
- ↑ "WA Department of Water – Water Resources Data – Streamflow Sites – Arrowsmith River – Robb Crossing". 2008. Archived from the original on 24 August 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ↑ Grey, George (1841). Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39, describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, etc. etc. Vol. 2. London: T. and W. Boone. p. 56. Retrieved 17 March 2012.
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