Thomson River (Cooper Creek)
| Thomson River | ||
 Map of the Lake Eyre Basin showing the Thomson River |
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| Data | ||
| location | Queensland , Australia | |
| River system | Cooper Creek | |
| Drain over | Cooper Creek → Lake Eyre | |
| source | Alma Range 22 ° 27 ′ 40 ″ S , 144 ° 34 ′ 40 ″ E |
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| Source height | 212 m | |
| confluence |
Cooper Creek near Windorah Coordinates: 25 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 53 ′ 30 ″ E 25 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 142 ° 53 ′ 30 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 130 m | |
| Height difference | 82 m
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| Left tributaries | Towerhill Creek, Fifteen Mile Creek, Twenty Mile Creek, Aramac Creek, Stuart Creek, Brutus Creek, Little Gin Creek, Wellshot Creek, Andersons Creek, Ernestina Creek, Three Mile Creek, Four Mile Creek, Horse Shoe Creek, Moonda Creek, Woolshed Creek , Scotts Creek, Emu Creek, Six Mile Creek, Deadman Creek, Deep Creek, Bostock Creek | |
| Right tributaries | Landsborough Creek, Bradley Creek, Yarraman Creek, Cassidy Creek, Lloyds Creek, Dingo Creek, Boundary Creek, Darr River , Katherine Creek, Splitters Creek, Acheron Creek, Vergemont Creek, Warbreccan Creek, Grassy Creek, Wuringle Creek, Stewards Creek | |
| Flowing lakes | 13 water holes | |
| Medium-sized cities | Longreach | |
| Small towns | Muttabarra, Stonehenge, Jundah | |
| Communities | Westbury, Arilalah, Tarcombe, Braidwood, Greers, Currareva | |
 Floods on the Thomson River at Jundah in 1950 |
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The Thomson River is a periodically water-bearing river in the center of the Australian state of Queensland . It belongs to the Cooper Creek river system and forms part of the Lake Eyre basin.
geography
River course
The river arises at Muttaburra in the Alma Range from Landsborough Creek and Towerhill Creek and flows to the southwest. The source river furthest from the mouth of the Thomson River is Torrens Creek , which flows into Cornish Creek . This in turn flows into Landsborough Creek.
To the west of Longreach, the Thomson River crosses the Landsborough Highway . It continues to flow in a southwesterly direction through the small towns, Stonehenge and Jundah before flowing north of Windorah into the Barcoo River , which becomes Cooper Creek .
The river system is only temporarily full of water to the evaporite of the Lake Eyre salt lake. Most of the time the "river" consists only of a chain of water holes ( billabongs ). In flat terrain there is often no defined river bed, but rather several parallel channels that can be kilometers apart ( channel country ). Only when there is extreme rainfall, mostly during the summer monsoon rain in the upper reaches, does water flow into Lake Eyre.
The Thomson Developmental Road (N79) accompanies the river for almost its entire length .
Tributaries with mouth heights
- Towerhill Creek - 212 m
- Landsborough Creek - 212 m
- Fifteen Mile Creek - 202 m
- Bradley Creek - 200 m
- Twenty Mile Creek -200 m
- Yarraman Creek - 197 m
- Aramac Creek - 194 m
- Cassidy Creek - 193 m
- Lloyds Creek - 189 m
- Stuart Creek - 188 m
- Brutus Creek - 187 m
- Little Gin Creek - 182 m
- Wellshot Creek - 180 m
- Dingo Creek - 180 m
- Boundary Creek - 179 m
- Anderson's Creek - 179 m
- Ernestina Creek - 179 m
- Three Mile Creek - 175 m
- Darr River - 175 m
- Four Mile Creek - 172 m
- Katherine Creek - 171 m
- Horse Shoe Creek - 170 m
- Dry Creek - 167 m
- Tocal Creek - 167 m
- Splitters Creek - 166 m
- Acheron Creek - 165 m
- Six Mile Creek - 162 m
- Moonda Creek - 156 m
- Woolshed Creek - 156 m
- Scotts Creek - 155 m
- Vergemont Creek - 155 m
- Emu Creek - 153 m
- Warbreccan Creek - 152 m
- Six Mile Creek - 150 meters
- Deadman Creek - 150 m
- Deep Creek - 149 m
- Grassy Creek - 146 m
- Bostock Creek - 145 m
- Wuringle Creek - 141 m
- Stewards Creek - 138 m
Flowing lakes
The Thomson River flows through a number of waterholes, some of which are filled with water even when the river is dry.
- Yarraman Waterhole - 197 m
- Longreach Waterhole - 185 m
- Rio Waterhole - 180 m
- Dinah Waterhole - 151 m
- Mahoney Waterhole - 150 meters
- Goongoon Waterhole - 148 m
- Mailchange Waterhole - 148 m
- Flaggy Waterhole - 148 m
- Carella Waterhole - 147 m
- Wooleys Lagoon - 147 m
- Twenty Mile Waterhole - 136 meters
- Fifteen Mile Waterhole - 135 meters
- Twelve Mile Waterhole - 132 meters
geology
The black-bottomed area through which the river flows is semi-arid . Sheep and livestock are rearing in this area.
Origin of name
The river was named by the explorer Edmund Kennedy in the 1840s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map of Thomson River, QLD . Bonzle.com
- ^ A b Flood Warning System for the Thompson & Barcoo Rivers & Cooper Creek . Bureau of Meteorology (Australia), accessed May 29, 2010
- ^ Water resources - Overview - Queensland - Surface Water Management Area: Cooper Creek (Qld) . In: Australian Natural Resources Atlas . Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts . Archived from the original on October 4, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
