Suttor River

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The Suttor River is a river in the east of the Australian state of Queensland. The river name forgave the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt in 1845.

Suttor River

The name of this river goes back to the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, who discovered him on March 7, 1845 his first expedition in Australia between 1844 and 1845. The name Suttor refers to a rancher who gave him to carry out this expedition four oxen just before leaving the former civilization. On March 17, Leichhardt also discovered the lake to which he called Suttor Lake.

Geography

River

The river rises in the southern part of the Leichhardt Range, and flows first to the south. It crosses the Bowen Developmental Road and the Suttor Developmental Road at Eagle Field. A few kilometers further south he turns his run to the northwest, forming a broad floodplain with many parallel channels and passes under the Bowen Developmental Road east again of Nairana National Park. He turns to the north and is 20 km away at St. Ann's the southernmost tributary of Lake Dalrymple, which he empties into the Burdekin River.

Tributaries with muzzle heights

  • Lily Creek - 323 m
  • Rockingham Creek - 297 m
  • Murray Creek - 272 m
  • Suttor Creek - 271 m
  • Eagle Creek Field - 226 m
  • The Soak - 217 m
  • Blowfly Creek - 200 m
  • Diamond Creek - 200 m
  • Logan Creek - 199 m
  • New Chum Creek - 189 m
  • Bull Creek - 186 m
  • Belyando River - 182 m
  • Horse Creek - 178 m
  • Elizabeth Creek - 178 m
  • Rosetta Creek - 176 m
  • Yandan Creek - 174 m
  • Boundary Creek - 173 m
  • Camp Creek - 172 m
  • Coquelicot Creek - 170 m
  • Emu Creek - 169 m
  • Grahame Creek - 168 m
  • Dingo Creek - 167 m
  • Yarraman Creek - 158 m
  • Charley Creek - 158 m
  • St. Anne's Creek - 158 m
  • Deep Creek - 158 m
  • Rockpool Creek - 158 m
  • Sandy Creek - 158 m
  • Startlemere Creek - 158 m
  • Box Camp Creek - 158 m

Flushed lakes and reservoirs

  • Lake Suttor - 197 m
  • Bulgrum Waterhole - 183 m
  • Murdering Lagoon - 178 m
  • Lake Dalrymple - 158 m

Suttor River dam

A stone dam, which was built in 1876 at St. Ann's during the Old Bowen Downs Road ( used until 1890 - years) over the Suttor River, is still almost intact today. It represents a rare example of the road techniques and the materials used at that time applied in Queensland

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