Kendall River (Queensland)

The Kendall River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

This article is about a river in Queensland. For a river of the same name in Canada, see Kendall River.
Kendall
Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
EtymologyIn honour of Thomas Kendall[1]
Location
CountryAustralia
StateQueensland
RegionFar North Queensland
Physical characteristics
SourceGreat Dividing Range
 • locationnorthwest of Bally Junction
 • elevation154 m (505 ft)
Mouthconfluence with the Holroyd River
 • location
near the Kulinchin Outstation
 • coordinates
14°12′21″S 141°37′39″E
 • elevation
3 m (9.8 ft)
Length167 km (104 mi)
Basin size4,851 km2 (1,873 sq mi)
[2]

The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range and flows in a south westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country across Cape York Peninsula. It eventually discharges into the Holroyd River near the Kulinchin Outstation and then onto the Gulf of Carpentaria.[2]

The river has a catchment area of 4,851 square kilometres (1,873 sq mi) of which an area of 93 square kilometres (36 sq mi) is composed of palustrine wetlands.[3]

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan[4] and Mimungkun peoples.[5]

Kugu Nganchara (also known as Wik, Wiknantjara, Wik Nganychara, Wik Ngencherr. See also related Wik languages) is a traditional language of the area which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire.[6]

Named by the pastoralists, Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander William Jardine in 1863. It was originally known as Kendall Creek and was named after a poet friend of their surveyor, Thomas Henry Kendall.[1]

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See also

References
  1. "Kendall River (entry 17925)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. "Map of Kendall River, QLD". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. "Kendall River drainage basin". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. "Wik-Munkan". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. "Mimungkun". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Indigenous languages map of Queensland". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
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