The Dry River is a river in the

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. The headwaters of the river rise under Tinker Hill in the Fitzgerald Range just north of Birrimba Station homestead. The river floes in a north easterly direction moving across the mostly uninhabited plains through Dry River Station and then discharges into the King River, of which it is a

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, and eventually flows into the

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. The only

of the Dry River is Forrest Creek. The river's catchment covers an area of . The eastern parts of the catchment are bounded by the Sturt Plateau. Upper parts of the river have been described as weakly developed. Western Creek was once a major tributary of the Dry River but it now flows into Elsey Creek. There are a number of waterholes which are permanent on the black soil plains of the river.

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Rivers of the Northern Territory {{NorthernTerritory-river-stub

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