The Lockhart River is a river in Queensland, Australia. The headwaters of the river rise under Chester Peak in the Chester Range, part of the

Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ...

, and flows northwards. It continues past High Range and Heming Range eventually discharging into Lloyd Bay in the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down the Australian northeast coast. Most of it is protected by the Fre ...

. The river has a catchment area of of which an area of is composed of

estuarine An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environment ...

wetlands. Named by the explorer Robert Logan Jack in 1880 after his friend Hugh Lockhart.

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{{Rivers of Queensland Rivers of Far North Queensland Bodies of water of the Coral Sea

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