The Nicholson River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It takes its name from the Nicholson Plains, named in 1879 by Alexander Forrest after Sir Charles Nicholson, the central figure in the circle of Australian 'colonists' in London, and a promoter of the Forrest brothers' explorations. In 1870 Nicholson had presented a paper entitled On Forrest's Expedition into the Interior of Western Australia, Goyder's Survey of the Neighbourhood of Port Darwin, and on the Recent Progress of Australian Discovery to a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of London.[2][3][4]
Nicholson River | |
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Location | |
Country | Australia |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• elevation | 388 metres (1,273 ft)[1] |
Mouth | |
• location | Ord River |
• elevation | 160 metres (525 ft) |
Length | 139 kilometres (86 mi) |
The river rises just north of Koolerong Bore then flows south-west through Nicholson and through Marella Gorge then turning north and discharging into the Ord River[5] on the eastern edge of Purnululu National Park near Doughboy Hill.
There are eleven tributaries of the Nicholson including; Bamboo Creek, Bull Creek, Clean Skin Creek, Red Bank Creek, Tyson Creek and Wire Creek.
Rivers of Western Australia | |
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Rivers of the Gascoyne region | |
Rivers of the Goldfields-Esperance region | |
Rivers of the Great Southern region | |
Rivers of the Kimberley region |
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Rivers of the Mid West region | |
Rivers of the Peel and Perth regions | |
Rivers of the Pilbara region | |
Rivers of the South West region | |
Rivers of the Wheatbelt region | |
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