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Kendall River (Queensland)

This article is about a river in Queensland. For a river of the same name in Canada, see Kendall River.

The Kendall River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia.

The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range and flows in a south westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country across Cape York Peninsula. It eventually discharges into the Holroyd River near the Kulinchin Outstation and then onto the Gulf of Carpentaria.[2]

The river has a catchment area of 4,851 square kilometres (1,873 sq mi), of which an area of 93 square kilometres (36 sq mi) is composed of palustrine wetlands.[3]

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan[4] and Mimungkun peoples.[5]

Kugu Nganhcara (also known as Wik, Wiknantjara, Wik Nganychara, Wik Ngencherr) is a traditional language of the area, which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire.[6]

The river was named by the pastoralists, Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander William Jardine in 1863. It was originally known as Kendall Creek and was named after a poet friend of their surveyor, Thomas Henry Kendall.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Kendall River (entry 17925)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Map of Kendall River, QLD". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Kendall River drainage basin". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Wik-Munkan". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Mimungkun". AusAnthrop Australian Aboriginal tribal database. Ausanthrop. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ^ This Wikipedia article incorporates CC BY 4.0 licensed text from: "Indigenous languages map of Queensland". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 5 February 2020.