Hope River is a river in central
Western Australia. It is a
tributary of the
Yalgar River
The Yalgar River is a 185-kilometre-long tributary of the Murchison River, located in the Shire of Meekatharra in central Western Australia. It rises in the Glengarry Range 25 km southeast of Mooloogool Station homestead, about 80 kilomet ...
, which is in turn a tributary of the
Murchison River. It rises as an overflow of
Lake Anneen about 40 kilometres southwest of
Meekatharra, and flows in a northwesterly direction for about 102 kilometres before discharging into the Yalgar.
The river was named after James William Hope, owner with
William Dalgety Moore
William Dalgety Moore (30 August 1835 – 22 April 1910) was a businessman in Fremantle, Western Australia, and also a pastoralist and politician.
Early life
Moore was born in the Swan River Colony in 1835, the eldest child of Samuel Moore and ...
, of
Moorarie Station
Moorarie Station is a pastoral lease currently operating as a sheep station in the Murchison district of Western Australia's Mid West region.
The property is situated approximately northwest of Meekatharra and east of Carnarvon. It is wa ...
, one of the first stations taken up in the district. At that time the Hope was considered to run to a junction with the Murchison, the site of Moorarie Homestead. The last 40 kilometres to the Murchison junction is now considered to be part of the Yalgar River.
References
Rivers of the Mid West region
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