Jerdacuttup River is a river located in the
Goldfields-Esperance region of
Western Australia
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.
The water in the river is naturally
saline.
The river rises on the edge of the
Yilgarn Plateau north of
Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe may refer to any of the following places.
England
*Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury in West Yorkshire
**Ravensthorpe railway station, Dewsbury
*Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire
*Ravensthorpe, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire
*Ravensthorpe, an histor ...
below Mount Short and drains the eastern side of the Ravensthorpe Range before flowing south and draining into the Jerdacuttup lakes close to the
Southern Ocean
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and east of
Hopetoun.
The
tributaries
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of the river include Moolyall Creek, Woodenup Creek, Cordingup Creek, Carlingup Creek, Boaiup Creek, Bandalup Creek and Burlabup Creek.
The name is
Indigenous Australian
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in origin and first charted by
John Forrest in 1870.
The river is the location of a significant
komatiite deposit
See also
*
Widgiemooltha Komatiite
The Widgiemooltha Komatiite is a formation of komatiite in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia.
Stratigraphy
The stratigraphy of the Widgiemooltha Komatiite is well known to be part of the regional komatiite magmatic event also seen at the ...
References
Rivers of the Goldfields-Esperance region
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