Adelaide River

The Adelaide River is a river in the northwest of the Northern Territory in Australia.

Geography

River

It rises on the western slopes of Mount Smith, west of Brooks Creek and east of Litchfield National Park, and flows for 180 km northeast of Adams Bay, a bay on the Timor Sea in Djukbinj National Park, some 50 km north-east of Darwin. From his mouth to it is navigable for 130 km.

At the point where the Stuart Highway and the Central Australian Railway, and formerly the North Australia Railway, crossing the river and crossed, is the same place Adelaide River.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

  • Adelaide River West Branch - 64 m
  • Burrell Creek - 36 m
  • Coomalie Creek - 23 m
  • Otto Creek - 13 m
  • Margaret River - 12 m
  • Manton River - 9 m
  • Marrakai Creek - 8 m
  • Wilshire Creek - 0 m

History

The first Europeans Lewis Roper Fitzmaurice reached aboard the ship HMS Beagle the river and named it after the British Queen Dowager Adelaide. It was explored by John McDouall Stuart in 1892, the first settlement on its banks was Escape Cliffs ( 1864-1867 ). Since the 1890s, the black soil along the Adelaide River were repeatedly the subject of agricultural experiments, such as vegetables, rice cultivation and cattle breeding.

Attractions

Tourists flock to the Adelaide River is known mainly for its Jumping Crocodiles. From a boat from pieces of meat are kept above the water on a fishing. Saltwater crocodiles then jump several meters high out of the water and grab the chunks of meat.

Jumping crocodile

A video of the Adelaide River

Litchfield-Nationalpark Van Diemen Gulf Municipality Adelaide River, Northern Territory Djukbinj-Nationalpark
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