The Carron 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 w ...
located in
Far North Queensland, Australia.
Course and features
The river rises at the northern end of the
Gregory Range
The Gregory Range is a mountain range located in Far North Queensland, Australia.
Location and features
Part of the Great Dividing Range, the Gregory Range lies southeast of and southwest of .
The range is located in an area of ephemeral water ...
and flows west to the north but roughly parallel with the
Gulf Developmental Road
Gulf Developmental Road is an Australian highway linking the Cairns and Normanton regions in northern Queensland, Australia. It is the only sealed (asphalt) road linking these two regions.
In the east, the road begins at an unnamed junction o ...
until discharging into the
Norman River
The Norman River is a river in the Gulf Country, Queensland, Australia. The river originates in the Gregory Range 200 km southeast of Croydon and flows 420 km northwest to the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is joined by three major tributari ...
of which it is a tributary near the town of
Normanton. It flows thorough many temporary and permanent waterholes through the journey including Rope Hole.
The Carron has five
tributaries
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...
including Rocky Creek, Foote Creek, Tabletop Creek, Ten Mile Creek and Telephone Creek.
The
traditional owners
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have right ...
of the area to the north of the Carron are the
Walangama
The Walangama were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland.
Language
Walangama, now extinct, was one of the Paman languages. William Armit, a local police inspector writing in the 1880s, stated that Walangama differed markedly ...
people and to the south are the
Kurtjar people.
The river is named after William Carron, second in command of the
Edmund Kennedy
Edmund Besley Court Kennedy J. P. (5 September 1818 – December 1848) was an explorer in Australia in the mid nineteenth century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explored the interio ...
expedition in 1848.
Carron was the expedition
botanist and one of the three survivors of the venture.
In 1872 the Carron and Norman Rivers were all in full flood with of rain falling over the course of two days. Severe flooding was also experienced in 2011.
See also
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References
{{Rivers of Queensland
Rivers of Far North Queensland