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Laura River is a river in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Laura River
Location
Country	Australia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Bailey Range
• elevation	409 metres (1,342 ft)[1]
Mouth
• location	Mary River
• elevation	287 metres (942 ft)
Length	86 kilometres (53 mi)[2]

The headwaters of the river rise in the Bailey Range, approximately 20 km south of Halls Creek; the river then flows in a south-westerly direction crossing the Great Northern Highway near Dillinger Bore before discharging into the Mary River of which it is a tributary.

The river was named in 1884 by government surveyor George Russell Turner, of the 1884 Kimberley Survey Expedition, who possibly named it after Laura Eliza Frances Forrest (1877-1960), the niece of Surveyor General John Forrest.[3][2][4]

References

На других языках

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[de] Laura River (Mary River)

Der Laura River ist ein Fluss in der Region Kimberley im Norden des australischen Bundesstaates Western Australia.

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- [en] Laura River (Western Australia)

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