Norman River

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17 ° 51 '42 " S, 141 ° 7' 39" E - 17.861666666667141.1275

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The Norman River is a river in the north of the Australian state of Queensland.

Geography

River

The river rises about 140 km south of Georgetown on the southwest slopes of the Gregory Range. From there, it flows first to the west and bends in its middle reaches to the north west. 30 km off the coast, it flows through the town of Normanton and leads finally to 420 km with mostly low gradient at Karumba in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The catchment area is bounded on the north by the Gilbert River, to the southwest by the Flinders River. The sizes vary from 48,950 km ² and 50,445 km ². The annual runoff of 2.346 million m³ corresponds to 9.5 % of the water flow into the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Largest dam in the catchment area is the Lake Belmore / Belmore Creek Dam ( location ) -18.1798142.262 with a capacity of 2.5 million m³. It is used to supply the residents of Croydon.

The highest measured water level in Normanton reached the Norman River 8.8 meters at the record flood of 1974. It should be noted, that was begun from this point to the systematic recording of water levels. Larger floods still occurred afterwards on in the years 1991 and 2009.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

  • Jacky Creek - 285 m
  • Cartridge Creek - 256 m
  • Borah Creek - 236 m
  • W Creek - 49 m
  • Plum Tree Creek - 33 m
  • Spear Creek - 31 m
  • Clara River - 25 m
  • Yappar River - 18 m
  • Jumble Hole Creek - 16 m
  • Brown Creek - 8 m
  • Sawtell Creek - 7 m
  • Four Mile Creek - 7 m
  • Alligator Creek - 6 m
  • Halfway Creek - 5 m
  • Clarina Creek - 5 m
  • Twenty Mile Creek - 3 m
  • Carron River - 2 m
  • Wills Creek - 0 m
  • Fools Lagoon Creek - 0 m

Flushed lakes

  • Crocodile Waterhole - 12 m
  • The Rocky Waterhole - 12 m

Climate

At the station Glenore Weir a rainfall of 764 mm was measured annual average ( 1969-2000 ). Near the coast there are about 900 mm, inland about 400 mm annually.

The nearby Normanton has ( 1908-2001 ) mean monthly maximum temperatures ranging between 29.1 ° C ( July) and 36.8 ° C (November) and minimum temperatures ranging between 15.1 ° C ( July) and 25.3 ° C ( December) on. At 10 months a year, the average afternoon temperature is over 30 ° C..

Fauna

The fauna includes at least 26 ( shown in 2006), but probably about 48 fish species, including Pied large fin rainbow fish ( Melanotaenia splendida inornata ), the Australian freshwater herring ( Nematalosa erebi ) Macleays Glass Fish ( Ambassis macleayi ) and Leiopotherapon unicolor.

Karumba, Queensland Normanton (Queensland) Municipality Georgetown (Queensland) Gilbert-Einasleigh River
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