Barcoo River

Barcoo River in Eyre Basin

Barcoo River at Isisford (2011)

Flooding on Barcoo River in the district of Blackall ( February 1941 )

The Barcoo River is a river in the west of the Australian state of Queensland. In Windorah opens the Thomson River, causing the Barcoo River at Coopers Creek, one of the longest rivers in Australia is.

Geography

River

The river rises on the northern slopes of Mount Playfair in the Warrego Range, and flows initially in a northwesterly direction at the Landsborough Highway around the city Blackall. Approx. He 60 km west of the city turns its course to the southwest. It flows along the southern border of Welford National Park along and takes west of Windorah the Thomson River, whereby it becomes the Cooper Creek.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

  • Surprise Creek - 425 m
  • Sandy Creek - 421 m
  • Mount Pleasant Creek - 414 m
  • Hooray Creek - 413 m
  • Tambo Creek - 398 m
  • One Mile Creek - 393 m
  • Three Mile Creek - 389 m
  • Five Mile Creek - 385 m
  • Seven Mile Creek - 383 m
  • Stockyard Creek - 377 m
  • Greendale Creek - 372 m
  • Birkhead Creek - 359 m
  • Tralee Creek - 358 m
  • Macfarlane Creek - 308 m
  • Goondamah Creek - 304 m
  • Boree Creek - 272 m
  • Ravensbourne Creek - 244 m
  • Douglas Ponds Creek - 237 m
  • Alice River - 224 m
  • Four Mile Creek - 212 m
  • Thornleigh Creek - 203 m
  • Bullock Creek - 202 m
  • Wild Horse Creek - 200 m
  • Cleanskin Creek - 198 m
  • Talundilly Creek - 195 m
  • Boodoo Creek - 194 m
  • Cameronia Creek - 192 m
  • Whiskey Creek - 192 m
  • Mosquito Creek - 190 m
  • Overshot Creek - 189 m
  • Pemberley Creek - 186 m
  • Mingera Creek - 186 m
  • Scrubby Creek - 184 m
  • Minster Creek - 181 m
  • Greenwood Creek - 181 m
  • Louisa Creek - 179 m
  • Milo Creek - 176 m
  • Coolibah Creek - 173 m
  • Deep Creek - 173 m
  • Moses Creek - 168 m
  • Crooked Creek - 167 m
  • Reedy Creek - 167 m
  • Sandy Creek - 163 m
  • Boundary Creek - 162 m
  • Boree Creek - 162 m
  • Sawyer Creek - 161 m
  • Powell Creek - 160 m
  • Yellow Mountain Creek - 157 m
  • Bull Creek - 151 m
  • Gap Creek - 150 m
  • Beantree Creek - 148 m
  • Eight Mile Creek -145 m

Flushed lakes

  • Avington Waterhole - 231 m
  • Coolagh Waterhole - 227 m
  • Oma Waterhole - 199 m
  • Killman Waterhole - 198 m
  • One Mile Waterhole - 194 m
  • May More Waterhole - 193 m
  • Green Lagoon - 188 m
  • Lily Lagoon - 187 m
  • Smith Lagoon - 184 m
  • Skeleton Hole - 180 m
  • Merriman Waterhole - 174 m
  • Louisa Waterhole - 174 m
  • Green Lagoon Waterhole - 172 m
  • Sawyers Waterhole - 168 m
  • Shepherds Waterhole - 168 m
  • Top Sawyer Waterhole - 168 m
  • Chinaman Waterhole - 166 m
  • Bull Waterhole - 164 m
  • Skull Waterhole - 159 m
  • Francis Hole - 150 m
  • Trafalgar Lagoon - 147 m
  • Heifer Hole - 147 m
  • Swan Hole - 146 m
  • Alex Hole - 146 m
  • Stake Yard Hole - 146 m
  • Davey's Hole - 145 m
  • Lily Hole - 145 m
  • Adaford Waterhole - 141 m
  • Seventeen Mile Waterhole - 139 m
  • Boomerang Waterhole - 138 m
  • Flat Water Hole - 138 m
  • Shed Hole - 138 m
  • Emu Waterhole - 136 m
  • Coolibah Waterhole - 135 m
  • Euro Waterhole - 132 m
  • Beantree Waterhole - 130 m

History

The first European to see the river, 1846 was the discoverer of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, who called it Victoria Stream. Later he received from Edmund Kennedy its present name, which comes from the language of the local Aborigines. The river is the boundary between the Outback and the Far Outback represents the areas west of the Barcoo River are very far away from civilization.

Barcoo Grunter

The Barcoo Grunter ( Scortum barcoo ) is a native freshwater fish you Limmen, Roper, Macarthur and Barkley Basin found in the rivers of the eastern Northern Territory ds, as well as between the Gilbert River in the north of Queensland and the tributaries of the Lake Eyre in central Australia. The Barcoo Grunter is an excellent food fish that is often kept in fish farms and aquariums.

Diseases

After the river, or at least according to the district, various diseases are named, which were once widely used in the Australian outback, but almost never happen today. One of them was called Barcoo Rot, a skin disease similar to the desert inflammation, a impetigösen, crusty skin inflammation that occurs at high temperatures, dirt, minor trauma and a poor diet of fresh fruits and vegetables. A second is the Barcoo fever, in which the sick of fever, nausea and vomiting, which is triggered by the smell of food, and constipation complains. This disease, which was once very common in the outback is completely gone. It could have been caused by contaminated drinking water with cyanobacteria. The improvement of food and drinking water supply in the Far Barcoo probably caused the disappearance of these diseases.

The river's name is also used in expression Barcoo Salute (German: Barcoo greeting ) before. He referred to the wiping away the ever present bush flies from his face with the right or left hand. Some common diseases are indeed gone, but the bush fly, there are still in the outback of Australia.

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