List of rivers in Queensland

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The list of rivers in Queensland gives an overview of all rivers in the Australian state of Queensland .

Rivers

Legend: L = length in km; E = catchment area in km²; Q = source height ; M = mouth height ; F = river system

Albert River

Balonne River

Barcoo River at Isisford

Belyando River

Bowen River

Boyne River

Railway bridge over the Bremer River

Brisbane River

Broken River

Bulimba Creek

Burdekin River

Burnett River

Diamantina River

Flood levels on the Fitzroy River

Lockyer Creek

Logan River

Oxley Creek

Ross River

Flood (1927) on the Stanley River

Surname	L.	E.	Q	M.	F.	Remarks
Albert River	0102.0	782	0184	0003	Logan River
Alice River	0220.0		0405	0224	Cooper Creek
Alice River
Alice River	0185.0		0132	0015th	Mitchell River
Annie River	0078.4		0073	0000	North Kennedy River
Auburn River	0252.0		0464	0123	Burnett River
Balonne River	0479.0		0274	0165	Murray River	flows through Lake Kajarabie (207 m above sea level)
Ballandool River	0076.0		0171	0149	Murray River
Barcoo River	0570.0		0425	0130	Cooper Creek	the explorer Thomas Livingstone Mitchell named the river Victoria Stream, later it was given its current name by Edmund Kennedy , which comes from the language of the local Aborigines ; flows through 36 waterholes, including Avington (231 m above sea level), Bull (164) and Euro Waterhole (132)
Barkly River
Barron River	0165.0	002,100	1,020	0000	Barron River	Barron Falls ; flows through Lake Tinaroo
Basalt River	0179.0	002,900	0750	0277	Burdekin River
Belyando River	0360.0	035,000	0397	0182	Burdekin River	flows through eleven lakes, including Greys Lagoon (387 m above sea level), Alinya Waterhole (230) and Yarmina Waterhole (195)
Big Coleman River	0019.9		0345	0230	Coleman River
Black Burdekin River	0021.0		0635	0567	Burdekin River
Bogie River	0121.0		0315	0027	Burdekin River
Bokhara River	0347.0		0171	0113	Murray River
Borer River	0065.0		0157	0073	Norman River
Bowen River	0129.0	009,452	0148	0050	Burdekin River
Boyne River	0230.0		0687	0122	Burnett River	flows through Lake Boondooma (293 m above sea level)
Boyne River	0125.0		0371	0000	Boyne River	flows through Lake Awoonga (41 m above sea level)
Bremer River	0086.9	002,032	0132	0004th	Brisbane River
Brisbane River	0309.0	013,600	0213	0000	Brisbane River	named after Sir Thomas Brisbane , then Governor of New South Wales; flows through Lake Wivenhoe (65 m above sea level)
Broken River	0104.0		0793	0148	Burdekin River	flows through Lake Eungella (564 m above sea level)
Broken River	0075.1		0789	0455	Burdekin River
Broughton River	0025.3		0287	0221	Burdekin River
Brown River	0071.5		0292	0237	Fitzroy River	flows through Lake Nuga Nuga (262 m above sea level)
Buckley River	0175.0		0372	0207	Warburton River	flows through the Flora Waterhole (262 m above sea level)
Bulimba Creek		000122
Burdekin River	0710.0	129,700	0619	0000	Burdekin River	flows through the Lamonds Lagoon (514 m above sea level) and the Dalrymple reservoir (158)
Burke River	0250.0		0323	0130	Warburton River	flows through Ninmaroo- (185 m above sea level) and Twelve Mile Waterhole (140)
Burnett River	0435.0	032,220	0485	0000	Burnett River	flows through the Paradise reservoir (68 m above sea level)
Bynoe River	0091.2		0009	0000	Flinders River	Arm of the Flinders River
Calliope River	0098.2	002,241	0182	0000	Calliope River
Cameron River	0034.6		0322	0190	Flinders River
Campaspe River	0376.0		0859	0208	Burdekin River
Cannon River	0074.4		0422	0300	Burdekin River
Cape River	0260.0		0676	0158	Burdekin River	flows through Lake Dalrymple
Carmichael River	0025.0		0240	0216	Burdekin River
Carron River	0175.0		0134	0002	Norman River	flows through the rope hole (10 m. above sea level)
Chapman River
Clara River	0310.0		0430	0025th	Norman River
Clarke River	0191.0		0820	0341	Burdekin River
Claude River	0104.0		0485	0324	Fitzroy River	flows through the Fish Waterhole (344 m above sea level)
Cloncurry River	0530.0	047,344	0383	0030th	Flinders River	flows through Wallacooloobie Waterhole (83 m above sea level), Palmer Waterhole (78), Stanley Waterhole (72), Ten Mile Waterhole (62), Two Mile Waterhole (50), Ten Mile Waterhole (39) and Tea Tree Waterhole (39 )
Coleman River	0300.0	012,862	0230	0000	Coleman River	flows through the Swordfish Hole (75 m above sea level)
Comet River	0160.0	017,925	0237	0153	Fitzroy River	flows through the Teatree Waterhole (190 m above sea level)
Condamine River	0657.0	013,292	0772	0256	Murray River	named after T. De La Condamine, the adjutant of the then Governor Ralph Darling
Connors River	0102.0		0162	0124	Fitzroy River	flows through Boat Hole (162 m above sea level), Main Camp Lagoon (154), Lake Plattaway (124) and Knobbys Waterhole (123)
Coomera River	0080.0	000489	0524	0000	Coomera River	flows through Lake Lugano
Cooper Creek	1,420.1	297,000	0130	−16	Cooper Creek	flows through 118 water holes and lakes
Copperfield River	0161.0		0868	0439	Gilbert River
Corella River	0210.0		0300	0074	Flinders River	flows through the Corella reservoir (300 m above sea level)
Culgoa River	0489.0		0187	0109	Murray River
Darr River	0200.0		0260	0175	Cooper Creek
Dawson River	0735.0	050,800	0642	0584	Fitzroy River	the name of the river goes back to Ludwig Leichhardt , who discovered it in 1844 on his expedition ; Dawson was a supporter of this expedition.
Dee River	0096.7		0454	0096	Fitzroy River
Deighton River	0085.8		0338	0065	Normanby River
Delaney River	0028.2		0372	0288
Diamantina River	0900.1	157,000	0313	0024	Warburton River	flows through 38 water holes and lakes, including Lake Goonabulka (160 m above sea level) and Lake Uloowaranie (34)
Don River	0165.1		0246	0073	Fitzroy River
Don River	0060.0	001,200	0253	0050
Dry Alice River	0007.7		0341	0331	Cooper Creek
Dry River	0055.3		0540	0432	Burdekin River
Dry River	0033.8		0277	0162	Mitchell River
Dry River					South Gregory River
Dugald River	0170.1		0251	0182	Flinders River	flows through the Three Mile Waterhole (69 m above sea level)
Dutton River	0209.0		0808	0206	Flinders River
Eastern Boyne River	40.5		501	41	Boyne River	flows into the Awoonga reservoir (41 m above sea level)
East Hodgkinson River	86.7		794	285	Mitchell River
East Normanby River	40.3		188	125	Normanby River
Edward River	208.0	7,521	114	0	Edward River
Einasleigh River	440.0	46,810	809	81	Gilbert River	flows through the Eight Mile Waterhole
Enoggera (Breakfast) Creek
Esk River	20.0		356	0	Esk River
Etheridge River	163.0		449	147	Gilbert River
Eyre Creek	520.0		107	24	Warburton River	flows through Koolivoo Waterhole (78 m above sea level), Lake Koolivoo (77), Lake Mipia (74) and Kuddarree Waterhole (51)
Fanning River	0042.3		0287	0221	Burdekin River
Fitzroy River	0335.0	142,665	0058	0000	Fitzroy River	named after the former governor Charles Augustus FitzRoy ; flows through the Fitzroy reservoir
Flinders River	1,004.2	109,377	0816	0000	Flinders River	longest river in Queensland ; flows through the Flagstone Waterhole (45 m above sea level)
Georgina River	1,130.2	232,000	0241	0107	Warburton River	flows through 26 water holes and lakes
Gilbert River	0450.0	046,810	0634	000	Gilbert River	named after the English naturalist John Gilbert
Granite Normanby River	0043.6		0337	0150	Normanby River	named after the Marquess of Normanby
Gregory River	0015.7		0669	0595	Burdekin River
Gregory River	00		00	00
Gregory River	00		00	00
Gregory River	0280.1		0263	0011	Nicholson River
Hamilton River	0315.0	00	0259	0107	Warburton River	flows through the Bulla Bulla Waterhole (151 m above sea level), Fish Waterhole (143), Milkamungra Waterhole (121) and the Hamilton Waterhole (107)
Hann River	0140.0	00	0178	0012	North Kennedy River
Herbert River	00	00	00	00
Hodgkinson River	0090.1	00	0414	0248	Mitchell River
Isaac River	0270.0		0362	0088	Fitzroy River
Isis River	0027.0	0526	0035	0000	Burrum River
Jack River	0102.0		0203	0033	Normanby River
Jardine River	0162.0		0100	0000	Jardine River	named after the discoverer Francis Lascelle Jardine
Kangaroo River
Kelly St. George River	0036.2		0454	0351	Mitchell River
Kennedy River	0141.0		0181	0026th	Normanby River
King River	0026.6		0169	0132	Coleman River
King River
King River	0043.4		0187	0120	Mitchell
Kirk River	0033.3		0275	0187	Burdekin River
Langdon River	0051.6	00	0253	0191	Gilbert River
Langlo River	0220.0	00	0372	0280	Murray River
Laura River	0126.1	00	0234	0058	Normanby River
Little Bowen River	0053.9	00	0260	0148	Burdekin River
Little Burke River	00	00	00	00
Little Coleman River	0021.4	00	0287	0230	Coleman River
Little Kennedy River	0012.3	00	0264	0163	Normanby River
Little Laura River	0054.8	00	0175	0073	Normanby River
Little Mitchell River	0036.0	00	0311	0147	Mitchell River
Little Palmer River	0011.5	00	0429	0370	Mitchell River
Little River	0085.7	00	0330	0140	Gilbert River	flows through the McFarlanes- (193 m above sea level), the Wallys- (183), the Five Mile- (179) and the Barramundi Waterhole (177)
Little River	0030.8	00	0615	0342	Mitchell River
Little Robertson River	0033.0	00	0575	0340	Gilbert River
Little Templeton River	0029.9	00	0458	0355	Warburton River
Little Weir River	0078.5	00	0169	0153	Murray River
Lockyer Creek (photo)	0113.0	003,032	0216	0037	Brisbane River	named after the British soldier Edmund Lockyer
Logan River (photo)	0184.0	003,076	0380	0000	Logan River	named after the commander of the Moreton Bay convict colony , Captain  Patrick Logan
Lukin River	0102.0	00	0211	0122	Coleman River
Lynd River	0323.0	00	0742	0098	Mitchell River	named after the British officer Robert Lynd
Macdonald River	00	00	00	00
Macintyre River	0475.1	00	1,260	0188	Murray River
Mackenzie River	0275.0	012,992	0153	0058	Fitzroy River	flows through the Coalmine Lagoon (135 m above sea level) and Lake Mary (92)
Maranoa River	0519.0	020,039	0574	0207	Murray River	flows through Lake Kajarabie
Mary River abor. : Moocooboola	0291.0	009,595	0209	0000	Mary River	Named in 1847 after the governor Charles Augustus FitzRoy's wife , Lady Mary Lennox
Mayne River	0175.0	00	0244	0104	Warburton River
McHenry River	0051.5	00	0107	0044	Jardine River
McKinlay River	0170.2	00	0335	0124	Flinders River
McLeod River	0037.8	00	0700	0327	Mitchell River
Merivale River	0205.2	003,460	0678	0401	Murray River
Mitchell River	0520.0	071,757	0376	0000	Mitchell River	flows through Lake Mitchell (375 m above sea level)
Moggil Creek	00	00	00	00
Morehead River	0175.0	00	0147	0010	North Kennedy River
Mort River	0090.2	00	0331	0230	Warburton River
Mosman River	0053.1	00	0323	0077	Normanby River
Mulligan River	0340.0	00	0205	0049	Warburton River	flows through eleven waterholes and lakes
Narran River	0299.0		0179	0118	Murray River	flows through de Narran Lake
Nerang River	0062.0	000490	0138	0000	Nerang River
Nicholson River	0400.0	053,200	0240	0000	Nicholson River	flows through The Block Waterhole and Five Mile Waterhole
Nivelle River	0019.2		0547	0517	Murray River
Nive River	0263.0		0563	0336	Murray River	named by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell after the French River Nive ; flows through Long Waterhole
Nogo River	0090.2		0301	0162	Burnett River	flows through the Wuruma Reservoir (230 m above sea level)
Nogoa River	0300.0	027,676	0501	0153	Fitzroy River	flows through Pelican Waterhole (257 m above sea level), Wandoo Lagoon (222) and the Maraboon Reservoir (207)
Norman Creek		000030th		0001	Brisbane River
Norman River	0420.0	048,950	0449	0000	Norman River	flows through the Glenore Weir reservoir
Normanby River	0292.0	024,408	0125	0000	Normanby River
North Gregory River	0019.4		0871	0669	Burdekin River
North Kennedy River	0188.7		0095	0000	North Kennedy River
North Palmer River	0071.5	041,435	0501	0224	Mitchell River	flows through the Mitchell reservoir (375 m above sea level)
Oak River	0031.6		0636	0477	Gilbert River
O'Shannassy River	0168.0		0339	0131	Nicholson River
Oxley Creek				0543	Flinders River
Oxley Creek	0070.0	000260	0190	0001	Brisbane River
Palmer River	0327.0	008,335	0429	0063	Mitchell River
Paroo River	0600.0	001,383	0336	0076	Murray River	flows through the Thoulcanna reservoir
Perry River	0043.7		0150	0024	Burnett River
Percy River	0066.6		0664	0397	Gilbert River
Pine River	0007.0		0011	0000	Pine River
Pioneer River	0120.0	001,550	0075	0000	Pioneer River
Rawbelle River	0022.7		0365	0301	Burnett River
Robertson River	0138.0		0749	0268	Gilbert River
Rocky River				0	Rocky River
Rocky Tate River	0073.4		0572	0296	Mitchell River
Rollston River	0064.1		0274	0169	Burdekin River
Ross River	0049.0	001,340	0092	0000	Ross River
Running river	0057.3		0660	0317	Burdekin River
Russell River	0059.0	000669	0206	0000	Russell River
Sandy Tate River	0050.9	00	0624	0414	Mitchell River
Saxby River	0430.0	00	0298	0017th	Flinders River	flows through the Big Crocodile- (81 m above sea level), Little Crocodile- (79), Barlow- (76), Lyrian- (67), Sandrige- (59), Chain- (55) and the Earles Camp Waterhole  ( 50)
Severn River	0089.9	00	0784	0375	Murray River
Seymour River	0070.8	00	0276	0166	Nicholson River
Seymour River	0	00	0	00
Smithburne River	0110.0	00	0055	0000	Gilbert River	flows through the Bird Waterhole (26 m above sea level), the Blackfellow Lagoon (23) and Wombies Lagoon (23)
South Gregory River	0045.6	00	0873	0669	Burdekin River
South Palmer River	0058.1	00	0537	0350	Mitchell River
St. George River	0041.5	00	0264	0125	Normanby River
St. George River	0065.3	00	0351	0190	Mitchell River
Stanley River (photo)	0086.1	001,330	0229	0065	Brisbane River	flows through Lake Somerset (97 m above sea level) and flows into Lake Wivenhoe (65)
Stuart River	0022.7	000065	0365	0293	Burnett River	flows into Lake Boondooma (293 m above sea level)
Styx River	0024.4	00	0746	0624	Gilbert River
Styx River	0	00	0	00
Suttor River	0200.1	00	0348	0158	Burdekin River	flows through Lake Suttor (197 m above sea level), the Bulgrum Waterhole (183), the Murdering Lagoon (178) and flows into Lake Dalrymple (158)
Tate River	0130.0	00	0452	0195	Mitchell River
Templeton River	0195.0	00	0372	0182	Warburton River
Thomson River	00	00	0212	0130	Cooper Creek	flows through 13 water holes
Thornton River	0074.8	00	0314	0181	Nicholson River
Tully River	00	00	0	00
Tumbarumba Creek	00	00	0	00
Ward River	0140.0	00	0389	0284	Murray River
Ward River	0046.0	00	0042	0000
Warrego River	0900.0	00	0625	0098	Murray River	flows through the Lower Lila , the Six-Mile and the Boera reservoirs
Weir River	0470.0	00	0358	0166	Murray River	flows through the Wanda Waterhole
West Burnett River	0039.3	00	0510	0304	Burnett River
West Normanby River	0072.4	00	0377	0125	Normanby River	named after the Marquess of Normanby , Governor of Queensland from 1871 to 1874.
Williams River	0150.2	00	0224	0091	Flinders River
Wilson River	0260.0	00	0189	0127	Cooper Creek	flows through 17 water holes
Woodroffe River	0120.1	00	0	0172	Warburton River
Woolgar River	0156.0	00	0665	0240	Flinders River
Yappar River	0270.0		0391	0018th	Norman River

See also

→ Main article : List of rivers in Australia

• List of rivers in the Australian Capital Territory
• List of rivers in New South Wales
• List of rivers in the Northern Territory
• List of rivers in South Australia
• List of rivers in Tasmania
• List of rivers in Victoria
• List of rivers in Western Australia

Web links

Commons : Rivers in Queensland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Leichhardt, Franz Braumann (ed.): The first crossing of Australia 1844-1846. P. 49. Revised according to his diaries, provided with an introduction and evidence. Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-522-60230-7
2. ^ Fitzroy River Basin
3. ^ Ronald & Vivian Moon: Cape York. To Adventurer's Guide. Kakirra Adventure Publications, Chelsea, Melbourne 1991. ISBN 0958826404