The Buller River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
in the
Mid West region of
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
, near
Geraldton.
The river is a short coastal stream of around 10 km length just to the north of
Geraldton, in the
Drummond Cove
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and
Oakajee areas. The headwaters of the river are north of Geraldton. The Buller flows in a southerly direction, initially following the east side of the
North West Coastal Highway to a point north of Drummond Cove, where it turns to the west, to discharge into the
Indian Ocean
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.
History
The Buller River was named on 7 April 1839 by the explorer
George Grey
Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. He served in a succession of governing positions: Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Go ...
while on his second disastrous expedition along the Western Australian coast,
probably after
Charles Buller M.P., an associate of
Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Grey's friend
William Hutt (brother of the 2nd
Governor of Western Australia,
John Hutt), and an active parliamentary proponent of the free colonization of South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand.
References
Rivers of the Mid West region
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