Flinders River
Flood at Flinders River at Hughenden ( January 1917 )
Arrival of Burke & Wills at Flinders River ( painting by Edward Jukes Greig, 1862)
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The Flinders River is a river in the north of the Australian state of Queensland.
Geography
River
The river rises near the village of Reedy Springs, south of Burra Range, which is part of the Great Dividing Range is. He turns first to the south and then turn east of Hughenden to the west. By Richmond he then sets his run parallel to the Flinders Highway continued in order to turn east of Julia Creek to the northwest. It runs parallel to the Wills Developmental Road and then parallel to the Burke Developmental Road, which he crossed at settlement Milgarra. In this area of the Flinders River has low gradient and, together with its tributaries Cloncurry River and Saxby River, a broad floodplain with many parallel channels. Soon after the Burke Developmental Road, he also crosses the Savannah Way west of Normanton. In this area the river delta and the Flinders River begins forming as another channel next to the main river from the Bynoe River. Both flow channels open in about 15 km distance west of the town of Karumba in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Only the lower reaches of the river with 120 km length is constantly introducing water. Upper and middle reaches only show in the rainy season appreciable water level.
Tributaries with muzzle heights
- Sandy Creek - 705 m
- Range Creek - 668 m
- Oak Creek - 651 m
- Morepork Creek - 596 m
- Oxley Creek - 543 m
- Humpy Creek - 491 m
- Jardine Creek - 350 m
- Galah ( Porcupine ) Creek - 294 m
- Canterbury Creek - 283 m
- Back Valley Creek - 264 m
- Stewart Creek - 258 m
- L- Tree Creek - 256 m
- Walker Creek - 239 m
- Codfish Creek - 233 m
- Sloane Creek - 229 m
- Gorman Creek - 210 m
- Dutton River - 206 m
- Mountain Creek - 200 m
- Hazlewood Creek - 187 m
- Stawell River - 185 m
- O'Connell Creek - 180 m
- Eurimpy Creek - 179 m
- Nonda Creek - 174 m
- Boundary Creek - 166 m
- Middle Creek - 155 m
- Mailman Creek - 140 m
- Alick Creek - 127 m
- Yambore Creek - 125 m
- Caroline Creek - 79 m
- Spring Creek - 60 m
- Cloncurry River - 30 m
- Saxby River - 17 m
- Smiths Creek - 9 m
- Bynoe River - 9 m
- Brown Creek - 5 m
- Armstrong Creek - 5 m
Flushed lakes
- Flagstone Waterhole - 45 m
Nature and Agriculture
On one of the tributaries, the Galah ( Porcupine ) Creek, is the Porcupine Gorge National Park. The country on the Flinders River is used mainly for livestock. The flat Lehmebene, in addition to the Flinders River and the Leichhardt River and the Nicholson River empty into the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Gulf Plains Important Bird Area, an important bird sanctuary.
History
The Flinders River was discovered by researchers Matthew Flinders and John Lort Stokes in 1841 on their expedition of the HMS Beagle.