Barcoo River

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Barcoo River
Barcoo River in the Eyre Basin

Barcoo River in the Eyre Basin

Data
location Queensland , Australia
River system Cooper Creek
Drain over Cooper Creek  → Lake Eyre
source Mount Playfair in the Warrego Range
24 ° 55 ′ 16 ″  S , 146 ° 24 ′ 56 ″  E
Source height 425  m
crossing Cooper Creek near Windorah Coordinates: 25 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 142 ° 53 ′ 30 ″  E 25 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 142 ° 53 ′ 30 ″  E
Mouth height 130  m
Height difference 295 m
Bottom slope approx. 0.52 ‰
length approx. 570 km
Left tributaries Surprise Creek, Tambo Creek, One Mile Creek, Three Mile Creek, Five Mile Creek, Seven Mile Creek, Greendale Creek, Goondamah Creek, Boree Creek, Ravensbourne Creek, Thornleigh Creek, Bullock Creek, Talundilly Creek, Boodoo Creek, Overshot Creek, Scrubby Creek, Minster Creek, Louisa Creek, Coolibah Creek, Deep Creek, Crooked Creek, Boree Creek, Powell Creek, Yellow Mountain Creek, Bull Creek, Beantree Creek
Right tributaries Sandy Creek, Hooray Creek, Mount Pleasant Creek, Stockyard Creek, Birkhead Creek, Tralee Creek, Douglas Ponds Creek, Alice River , Four Mile Creek, Wild Horse Creek, Cleanskin Creek, Cameronia Creek, Whiskey Creek, Mosquito Creek, Mingera Creek, Greenwood Creek, Milo Creek, Moses Creek, Reedy Creek, Sandy Creek, Boundary Creek, Sawyer Creek, Gap Creek, Eight Mile Creek
Flowing lakes 36 water holes
Medium-sized cities Blackall , Isisford
Small towns Tambo
Communities Avignon, Portland Downs, Isis Downs, Glen Alton, Mount Marlow, Wandsworth, Jedburgh, Welford, Retreat, Coniston, Hammond Downs
Barcoo River near Isisford (2011)

Barcoo River near Isisford (2011)

Flood on the Barcoo River in Blackall District (February 1941)

Flood on the Barcoo River in Blackall District (February 1941)

The Barcoo River is a river in the west of the Australian state of Queensland .

The Thomson River flows at Windorah , making the Barcoo River into Coopers Creek , one of Australia's longest rivers.

geography

River course

The river has its source on the northern slopes of Mount Playfair in the Warrego Range and initially flows in a north-westerly direction along the Landsborough Highway through the town of Blackall . About 60 kilometers west of the city, it turns its course to the southwest. It flows along the southern boundary of Welford National Park and joins the Thomson River west of Windorah, making it Cooper Creek.

Tributaries with mouth heights

Flowing lakes

  • Avington Waterhole - 231 meters
  • Coolagh Waterhole - 227 m
  • Grandma Waterhole - 199 m
  • Killman Waterhole - 198 m
  • One Mile Waterhole - 194 meters
  • May More Waterhole - 193 m
  • Green Lagoon - 188 m
  • Lily Lagoon - 187 m
  • Smith Lagoon - 184 m
  • Skeleton Hole - 180 m
  • Merriman Waterhole - 174 m
  • Louisa Waterhole - 174 m
  • Green Lagoon Waterhole - 172 m
  • Sawyers Waterhole - 168 m
  • Shepherds Waterhole - 168 m
  • Top Sawyer Waterhole - 168 m
  • Chinaman Waterhole - 166 m
  • Bull Waterhole - 164 m
  • Skull Waterhole - 159 m
  • Francis Hole - 150 m
  • Trafalgar Lagoon - 147 m
  • Heifer Hole - 147 m
  • Swan Hole - 146 m
  • Alex Hole - 146 m
  • Stake Yard Hole - 146 meters
  • Davey's Hole - 145 m
  • Lily Hole - 145 m
  • Adaford Waterhole - 141 m
  • Seventeen Mile Waterhole - 139 meters
  • Boomerang Waterhole - 138 m
  • Flat Waterhole - 138 m
  • Shed Hole - 138 m
  • Emu Waterhole - 136 m
  • Coolibah Waterhole - 135 m
  • Euro Waterhole - 132 m
  • Beantree Waterhole - 130 m

history

The first European to see the river was the explorer Thomas Livingstone Mitchell , who named it Victoria Stream , in 1846 . It was later given its current name by Edmund Kennedy , which comes from the language of the local Aborigines . The river represents the border between the Outback and the Far Outback . The areas west of the Barcoo River are very far from civilization.

Barcoo Grunter

The Barcoo Grunter ( Scortum barcoo ) is a native freshwater fish found in the rivers of the eastern Northern Territory of the Limmen, Roper, Macarthur and Barkley Basins, as well as between the Gilbert River in northern Queensland and the tributaries of the Lake Eyre in Central Australia. The Barcoo Grunter is an excellent food fish that is often kept in fish farms and aquariums.

Diseases

Various diseases are named after the river, or at least after the district, which were once widespread in the Australian outback, but are now almost non-existent. One of them was called Barcoo Rot , a skin disease similar to desert inflammation , an impetuous , crusty skin inflammation that occurs with great heat, dirt, minor trauma and a diet poor in fresh fruits and vegetables. A second is Barcoo fever , in which the sick person complains of fever , nausea and vomiting caused by the smell of food, and constipation . This disease, which was once very common in the outback, has completely disappeared. It could have been caused by drinking water contaminated with cyanobacteria . The improvement in food and drinking water in Far Barcoo is believed to have made these diseases go away.

The name of the river is also used in the expression Barcoo Salute (English: Barcoo salute). It describes the wiping of the ever-present bush flies from the face with the right or left hand. Some common diseases have disappeared, but bush flies are still in the outback of Australia.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map of Barcoo River, QLD . Bonzle.com
  2. ^ A b Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing Pty. Ltd. Archerfield QLD (2007). ISBN 978174193232-4 . P. 17