The Kendall River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Kendall
Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
Etymology	In honour of Thomas Kendall[1]
Location
Country	Australia
State	Queensland
Region	Far North Queensland
Physical characteristics
Source	Great Dividing Range
• location	northwest of Bally Junction
• elevation	154 m (505 ft)
Mouth	confluence with the Holroyd River
• location	near the Kulinchin Outstation
• coordinates	14°12′21″S 141°37′39″E
• elevation	3 m (9.8 ft)
Length	167 km (104 mi)
Basin size	4,851 km2 (1,873 sq mi)
[2]

The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range and flows in a south westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country across Cape York Peninsula. It eventually discharges into the Holroyd River near the Kulinchin Outstation and then onto the Gulf of Carpentaria.[2]

The river has a catchment area of 4,851 square kilometres (1,873 sq mi) of which an area of 93 square kilometres (36 sq mi) is composed of palustrine wetlands.[3]

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan[4] and Mimungkun peoples.[5]

Kugu Nganchara (also known as Wik, Wiknantjara, Wik Nganychara, Wik Ngencherr. See also related Wik languages) is a traditional language of the area which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire.[6]

Named by the pastoralists, Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander William Jardine in 1863. It was originally known as Kendall Creek and was named after a poet friend of their surveyor, Thomas Henry Kendall.[1]

See also

• List of rivers of Queensland

References