Lynd River
| Lynd River | ||
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| Data | ||
| location | Queensland ( Australia ) | |
| River system | Mitchell River | |
| Drain over | Mitchell River → Gulf of Carpentaria | |
| source |
Forty Mile Scrub National Park 18 ° 4 ′ 50 ″ S , 144 ° 51 ′ 2 ″ E |
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| Source height | 742 m | |
| muzzle |
Mitchell River east of Highbury Coordinates: 16 ° 27 '53 " S , 143 ° 18' 29" E 16 ° 27 '53 " S , 143 ° 18' 29" E |
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| Mouth height | 98 m | |
| Height difference | 644 m | |
| Bottom slope | 2 ‰ | |
| length | 323 km | |
| Left tributaries | Mero Creek, Fossil Brook, Blackfellow Creek, Fulford Creek, Rocky Creek, Dickson Creek, Whites Creek, Troopers Creek, W Creek, White Horse Creek | |
| Right tributaries | Rocky Whistler Creek, Emu Creek, Desert Creek, Pinnacle Creek, Pikes Creek, Tate River , Torwood Creek, Sugarbag Creek, Massie Creek, Billycan Anabranch | |
| Small towns | Lyndbrook | |
| Communities | Torwood, Bulimba | |
The Lynd River is a river in the north of the Australian state of Queensland . It is located in the Far North Queensland region . The Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt gave the name in 1844.
Surname
In May 1845 Ludwig Leichhardt named the Lynd River on his first Australian expedition from 1844 to 1845 after the British officer Robert Lynd, who supported him in Sydney.
geography
River course
The river has its source about 140 km southwest of Innisfail and about 130 km east of Georgetown in the Forty Mile Scrub National Park on the Kennedy Highway . The area belongs to the Atherton Tablelands , part of the Great Dividing Range . The Lynd River flows northwest. It passes Bulleringa National Park near Torwood in the north and the States River National Park near Bulimba in the east. Then it crosses under the Burke Developmental Road about 15 km east of Highbury and flows into the Mitchell River .
Tributaries with mouth heights
- Mero Creek - 497 m
- Rocky Whistler Creek - 426 m
- Emu Creek - 397 m
- Fossil Brook - 381 m
- Blackfellow Creek - 370 m
- Fulford Creek - 328 m
- Desert Creek - 292 m
- Rocky Creek - 253 m
- Dickson Creek - 242 m
- Whites Creek - 225 m
- Pinnacle Creek - 210 m
- Pikes Creek - 195 m
- Tate River - 195 m
- Troopers Creek - 191 m
- Torwood Creek - 163 m
- Sugarbag - 150 m
- Massie Creek - 126 m
- W Creek - 125 m
- Billycan Anabranch - 115 m
- White Horse Creek - 107 m
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map of Lynd River, QLD . Bonzle.com
- ↑ Alec Hugh Chisholm : Strange New World. The Adventure of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt . P. 184. Second revised and illustrated edition 1955. Sydney. London. Melbourne. Wellington. (English)
- ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 13