Suttor River

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Suttor River
Data
location Queensland , Australia
River system Burdekin River
Drain over Burdekin River  → Coral Sea
source Leichhardt Range
21 ° 1 ′ 31 ″  S , 147 ° 34 ′ 16 ″  E
Source height 348  m
muzzle Burdekin River in Lake Dalrymple near St. Ann's Coordinates: 20 ° 54 '59 "  S , 146 ° 51' 8"  E 20 ° 54 '59 "  S , 146 ° 51' 8"  E
Mouth height 158  m
Height difference 190 m
Bottom slope approx. 0.95 ‰
length approx. 200 km
Left tributaries Suttor Creek, Eaglefield Creek, The Soak, Diamond Creek, Logan Creek, New Chum Creek, Bull Creek, Belyando River , Elizabeth Creek, Horse Creek, Emu Creek, Grahame Creek, Dingo Creek, Yarraman Creek, Deep Creek, Startlemere Creek, Box Camp Creek
Right tributaries Lily Creek, Rockingham Creek, Murray Creek, Blowfly Creek, Rosetta Creek, Yandan Creek, Boundary Creek, Camp Creek, Coquelicot Creek, Charley Creek, St. Annes Creek, Rockpool Creek, Sandy Creek
Flowing lakes Lake Suttor , Bulgrum Waterhole, Murdering Lagoon
Reservoirs flowed through Lake Dalrymple
Communities Mount Lookout, Eaglefield, Gunjulla, St. Anns

The Suttor River is a river in the east of the Australian state of Queensland . The explorer Ludwig Leichhardt gave the river its name in 1845.

Suttor River

The name of this river goes back to the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt , who discovered it on March 7, 1845 on his first expedition to Australia from 1844 to 1845. The name Suttor refers to a cattle farmer who gave him four oxen to carry out this expedition shortly before he left the civilization of that time. On March 17th, Leichhardt also discovered the lake of the same name, which he called Suttor Lake .

geography

River course

The river has its source in the southern part of the L eichhardt Range and initially flows south. It passes under the Bowen Developmental Road and the Suttor Developmental Road at Eaglefield . A few kilometers further south, it turns its course to the northwest, forms a wide floodplain with many parallel channels and crosses under the Bowen Developmental Road again east of the Nairana National Park . It turns north and forms 20 km further at St. Anns the southernmost tributary of Lake Dalrymple , where it flows into the Burdekin River .

Tributaries with mouth heights

Lakes and reservoirs flowing through

  • Lake Suttor - 197 m
  • Bulgrum Waterhole - 183 m
  • Murdering Lagoon - 178 m
  • Lake Dalrymple - 158 m

Suttor River Dam

A stone dam , built in 1876 at St. Anns on the Old Bowen Downs Road (used until the 1890s) over the Suttor River, is almost completely preserved today. It is a rare example of the road construction techniques and materials used in Queensland at the time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Map of Suttor River, QLD . Bonzle.com
  2. ^ A b Steve Parish: Australian Touring Atlas . Steve Parish Publishing, Archerfield QLD 2007. ISBN 978-1-74193-232-4 . P. 10
  3. ↑ Ludwig Leichhardt, Franz Braumann (ed.): The first crossing of Australia 1844-1846. Pp. 89/90. Revised according to his diaries, provided with an introduction and evidence. Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-522-60230-7
  4. ↑ Ludwig Leichhardt, Franz Braumann (ed.): The first crossing of Australia 1844-1846. P. 91. Revised according to his diaries, provided with an introduction and evidence. Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-522-60230-7
  5. ^ Suttor River Causeway, Old Bowen Downs Road ( English ) In: Queensland Heritage Register . Department of Environment and Heritage Protection. Retrieved September 24, 2012.