Mackenzie River (Fitzroy River)

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Mackenzie River
Data
location Queensland , Australia
River system Fitzroy River
Drain over Fitzroy River  → Coral Sea
source north of Comet
23 ° 33 ′ 22 ″  S , 148 ° 32 ′ 10 ″  E
Source height 153  m
confluence Fitzroy River near Duaringa Coordinates: 23 ° 37 ′ 39 "  S , 149 ° 46 ′ 2"  E 23 ° 37 ′ 39 "  S , 149 ° 46 ′ 2"  E
Mouth height 58  m
Height difference 95 m
Bottom slope 0.35 ‰
length 275 km
Catchment area 12,992 km²
Left tributaries Nogoa River , Cattle Creek, Scrub Creek, Cooroora Creek, Roper Creek, Higgins Creek, Honeycombe Creek, Isaac River , Coppermine Creek, Swop Gully, Sandy Gully, Apis Creek, Grastree Creek, Paddock Creek, Leura Creek, Boundary Creek,
Right tributaries Comet River , Maria Creek, Blackwater Creek, Parker Creek, Kaiuroo Creek, Falldown Creek, Boonba Creek, Springton Creek, Sixteen Mile Creek
Flowing lakes Coalmine Lagoon, Lake Mary
Communities Royless, Burkan

The Mackenzie River is a river in the east of the Australian state of Queensland .

The non-watered river is a headwaters of the Fitzroy River .

geography

River course

The river arises about eight kilometers north of the small town of Comet on the Capricorn Highway at the confluence of the Comet River and the Nogoa River . From there it flows northeast to the Broadsound Range , where the Isaac River joins. At the same time, it turns its course to the south-southeast and forms the Fitzroy River about twelve kilometers northeast of the small town of Duaringa , also on the Capricorn Highway, together with the Dawson River .

Tributaries with mouth heights

Flowing lakes

history

Yetimarala (also known as Jetimarala, Yetimaralla, and Bayali) is an Aboriginal Australian language in central Queensland. The traditional language region is in the counties of the Central Highlands Region , the Boomer Range and the Broadsound Range, as well as the Fitzroy River , Killarney Station, the Mackenzie River and the Isaac River . Garingbal, a language in central Queensland, was spoken in this region as well, mainly around the Bowen Basin. The Garingbal-language region comprises the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Central Highlands Regional Council.

The Mackenzie River was visited in 1844 by the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt , who explored many parts of Queensland and the Northern Territory , discovered on his first expedition to Australia .

Leichhardt named the river after Sir Evan Mackenzie , a Scot who emigrated to Brisbane in 1840 and settled there. Mackenzie had hosted a farewell dinner for Leichhardt and the people of Brisbane in August 1844.

fauna

In the binge-speed military in Middlemount we find Barramundi , Southern Saratoga ( Scleropagus leichhardti ) and temperate perch . The Bedford weir and the Tartrus weir were equipped with barramundi. The Bedford Weir is also popular with water sports enthusiasts and camping is allowed here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Map of Mackenzie River, QLD (153 m - 95 m) . Bonzle.com
  2. ↑ a b c Map of Mackenzie River, QLD (95 m - 58 m) . Bonzle.com
  3. ↑ Comet, Nogoa and Mackenzie rivers . In: State of the Rivers report . Department of Environment and Resource Management (Queensland). October 23, 2008. Archived from the original on May 20, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 20, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrw.qld.gov.au
  4. ^ Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 10 + 11
  5. ↑ https://maps.slq.qld.gov.au/iyil/view/162
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ Ludwig Leichhardt . DavidReilly.com
  8. ↑ espace.library.uq.edu.au : Evan Mackenzie: pioneer merchant pastoralist of Moreton Bay / John HG Mackenzie-Smith . in English, accessed June 8, 2013
  9. ↑ Alec Hugh Chisholm : Strange New World. The Adventure of John Gilbert and Ludwig Leichhardt . P. 123. Second revised and illustrated edition 1955. Sydney. London. Melbourne. Wellington. (English)
  10. ^ A b Rod Harrison, Ernie James, Chris Sully, Bill Classon, Joy Eckermann: Queensland Dams . Australian Fishing Network, Bayswater (Victoria) 2008, ISBN 9781865131344 , p. 157.