• Source: Victoria River (Northern Territory)

      • The Victoria River is a river in the bioregion of Victoria Bonaparte in the Northern Territory of Australia. It flows for 560 kilometres (350 mi) from its source south of the Judbarra / Gregory National Park to the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea.


      History


      On 12 September 1819, Philip Parker King came to the mouth of the Victoria and, twenty years later, in 1839, Captain J. C. Wickham arrived at the same spot in HMS Beagle and named the river after Queen Victoria. Crew members of the Beagle followed the river upstream into the interior for more than 200 kilometres (120 mi).
      In August 1855 Augustus Gregory sailed from Moreton Bay and at the end of September reached the estuary of the Victoria River. He sailed up the river and carried out extensive exploration.
      In 1847 Edmund Kennedy went on an expedition to trace the route of the "River Victoria" of Thomas Mitchell with a view to finding whether
      there was a practical route to the Gulf of Carpentaria. This "River Victoria" was later renamed the Barcoo River.


      Location and features



      Flowing for 560 kilometres (350 mi) from its source, south of the Judbarra / Gregory National Park, until it enters Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in the Timor Sea, the Victoria River is the longest singularly named permanent river in the Northern Territory. It is the second longest permanent river in the Northern Territory, as defined by international standards, the longest being the Katherine/Daly River.
      Important wetlands are found in the lower reaches of the river with forming suitable habitat for waterfowl breeding colonies and roosting sites for migratory shorebirds. Large areas of rice-grass floodplain grasslands are also found along the river.
      Part of the area adjoining the river mouth has been identified as the Legune (Joseph Bonaparte Bay) Important Bird Area because of its importance for waterbirds.


      = Tributaries

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      The river has 56 tributaries including the Camfield River, Wickham River, Battle Creek, Angalarri River, Gidyea Creek, and Armstrong River. The river also flows through several waterholes, such as Catfish waterhole and Four Mile Waterhole. It has a mean annual outflow of 5,000 gigalitres (1.321×1012 US gal),


      = Cattle stations

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      Several large cattle stations are found along the length of the river, including Riveren where the river originates, Victoria River Downs, Coolibah Station, and Wave Hill Station, which is known for the historic strike known as the "Wave Hill walk-off" in the 1960s to the 1970s.


      Eponyms


      A species of turtle, Emydura victoriae, is named after the Victoria River.


      See also



      List of rivers of the Northern Territory


      Footnotes




      References

    • Source: Victoria River, Northern Territory

      • Victoria River is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 450 kilometres (280 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin and about 240 kilometres (150 mi) south of the municipal seat in Katherine.
      The locality consists of the following land (from west to east) – the Humbert River pastoral lease, land described as NT Portion 1568, the Wambardi Aboriginal Land Trust, the Victoria River Downs pastoral lease, the Camfield pastoral lease, the Montejinni West pastoral lease, the Killarney pastoral lease, the Montejinni East pastoral lease, the Dungowan pastoral lease and the Birrimba pastoral lease. The locality fully surrounds the locality of Yarralin and the community of Pigeon Hole and the town of Top Springs. It has an area of 27,278 square kilometres (10,532 sq mi).
      The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the river of the same name which flows through the locality from the south to the north and which was named in 1839 by Captains Wickham and Stokes of HMS Beagle after Queen Victoria, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
      The Buchanan Highway passes through the locality from the Stuart Highway in the east to the Victoria Highway in the north-west. The Buntine Highway passes through the locality from the south to the north and meets the Buchanan Highway at Top Springs.
      Victoria River includes the following sites that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register: the Bullock Creek Fossil Site, Jasper Gorge and the Murranji Track including the following five sites associated with the track and which have been separately registered - Murranji Track, Jump-Up Cairn, Murranji Track, No. 12 Bore, Murranji Track, No. 13 Bore, Murranji Track, No. 14 (Pussycat) Bore Dipyard and Murranji Track, Surveyor Well's Cairn.
      The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Victoria River had 152 people living within its boundaries.
      Victoria River is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Stuart and the local government area of the Victoria Daly Region.


      Climate




      References




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