Fitzroy River (Coral Sea)
| Fitzroy River | ||
 Fitzroy Bridge in Rockhampton during the 1918 flood |
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| Data | ||
| location | Queensland ( Australia ) | |
| River system | Fitzroy River | |
| confluence | northeast of Duaringa (Boomer Range) 23 ° 37 ′ 39 ″ S , 149 ° 46 ′ 2 ″ E |
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| Source height | 58 m | |
| muzzle |
Coral Sea at Rockhampton Coordinates: 23 ° 31 ′ 56 ″ S , 150 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E 23 ° 31 ′ 56 ″ S , 150 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 0 m | |
| Height difference | 58 m | |
| Bottom slope | 0.17 ‰ | |
| length | 335 km | |
| Catchment area | 142,665 km² | |
| Drain |
MQ |
56 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Mackenzie River , Melaleuca Creek, Mosquito Creek, Green Creek, Back Creek, Nine Mile Creek, Seventeen Mile Creek, Templeton Creek, Glenroy Creek, Muldoon Creek, Camp Creek, Marlborough Creek, Boggy Creek, Princhester Creek, Canoona Creek, Alligator Creek, Planted Creek, Lagoon Creek, Sutherland Creek, Etna Creek, Limestone Creek, Black Creek, Back Creek | |
| Right tributaries | Dawson River , Slatey Creek, Gogango Creek, Emu Creek, Moah Creek, Scrub Creek, Ten Mile Creek, Six Mile Creek, Two Mile Creek, Junction Creek, Stony Creek, Limestone Creek, Gavial Creek | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Fitzroy Reservoir | |
| Medium-sized cities | Rockhampton | |
| Small towns | Yaamba, Parkhurst | |
| Residents in the catchment area | 144.464 | |
The Fitzroy River is a river in the east of the Australian state of Queensland .
geography
River course
The river arises around twelve kilometers northeast of the small town of Duaringa on the Capricorn Highway at the confluence of the Mackenzie River and the Dawson River . From there it meanders with a slight gradient to the east, then along the Boomer Range , east of Goodedulla National Park to the north and then in an arc along the Bruce Highway , to the southeast. At Rockhampton it flows into Keppel Bay and thus into the Coral Sea .
The length information varies from 335 to 480 kilometers. The catchment area of the Fitzroy River is over 140,000 km² after the Murray-Darling Basin, the second largest river system in Australia.
The most important town on the Fitzroy River is Rockhampton , about 40 kilometers above the mouth.
Tributaries with mouth heights
- Mackenzie River - 58 m
- Dawson River - 58 m
- Slatey Creek - 52 m
- Gogango Creek - 45 m
- Melaleuca Creek - 42 m
- Emu Creek - 41 m
- Mosquito Creek - 41 m
- Moah Creek - 40 m
- Scrub Creek - 39 m
- Green Creek - 38 m
- Back Creek - 31 m
- Nine Mile Creek - 31 m
- Seventeen Mile Creek - 29 meters
- Ten Mile Creek - 28 m
- Templeton Creek - 26 m
- Glenroy Creek - 23 m
- Muldoon Creek - 20 m
- Camp Creek - 19 m
- Six Mile Creek - 18 m
- Marlborough Creek - 17 m
- Boggy Creek - 17 m
- Princhester Creek - 17 m
- Two Mile Creek - 15 m
- Canoona Creek - 14 m
- Alligator Creek - 13 m
- Planted Creek - 12 m
- Junction Creek - 11 m
- Stony Creek - 10 m
- Lagoon Creek - 8 m
- Limestone Creek - 8 m
- Sutherland Creek - 7 m
- Etna Creek - 7 m
- Limestone Creek - 7 m
- Gavial Creek - 2 m
- Black Creek - 1 m
- Back Creek - 0 m
Origin of name
It was named in 1853 after the then Governor of New South Wales , Charles Augustus FitzRoy .
economy
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Rockhampton was an important port, but rock bars in the river prevented the Fitzroy River from being navigable upstream by ships. As ships generally got bigger, the lower reaches of the river became less important for commercial shipping and now only private boats and small fishing boats are found there. The piers that once lined the riverside in Rockhampton are falling into disrepair or have already been demolished.
The major industries in the Fitzroy River basin are coal mining , livestock, and cotton growing .
Today there are also a number of weirs and reservoirs in the Fitzroy River catchment area. The Fitzroy reservoir in Rockhampton has a storage volume of 61 million m³ and supplies the city and its surroundings with drinking water. The Fairbairn Reservoir on the Nogoa River , a tributary of the Mackenzie River, and a number of weirs on the Mackenzie River itself provide irrigation for the fields where cotton, peanuts , chickpeas , corn , citrus fruits , vines and melons are grown. They also provide water for the coal mines and drinking water for the city of Emerald .
fauna
Estuarine crocodiles live on the lower reaches of the Fitzroy River ; In 2003 a 4 m long specimen was caught. Most of the freshwater fish species in Queensland are found in the river's catchment area. The barramundi breed in the river, as does the sooty fish ( Hephaestus fuliginosus ) and a special species of cod perch .
987 km² of the floodplain and the delta have been classified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA). There are regularly over 1% of the world population of pointed- tailed sandpipers and breeding grounds of the rare mangrove honey eater ( Lichenostomus fasciogularis ).
At the river mouth, researchers found a special species of Australian pub-fin dolphin , of which there are only 70 animals. The WWF Australia is concerned that the of Xstrata planned coal port at Balaclava Iceland could wipe out the local Stupsfinnendelfinpopulation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map of Fitzroy River, QLD . Bonzle.com
- ↑ a b Central Queensland Strategy for Sustainability - 2004 and Beyond - Chapter 2 (Engl.) ( Memento of the original on 16 February 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.6 MB)
- ↑ River Basin Summary (English) ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 512 kB)
- ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 11
- ^ Fitzroy River . Encyclodaedia Britannica Online
- ^ Review of the Fitzroy River Water Quality Issues . Report to Queensland Premier. Government of Queensland ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 742 kB)
- ^ Fitzroy River Basin
- ↑ a b c Rod Harrison, Ernie James, Chris Sully, Bill Classon, Joy Eckermann: Queensland Dams . Australian Fishing Network, Bayswater (Victoria) 2008, ISBN 9781865131344 , p. 157.
- ^ IBA: Fitzroy Floodplain and Delta . In: Birdata . Birds Australia. Retrieved June 20, 2011.
- ^ Coal port could wipe out dolphin pod: WWF . In: Sydney Morning Herald , Fairfax Media, October 14, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
