Laura River (Western Australia)

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

Laura River
Location
CountryAustralia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBailey Range
 • elevation409 metres (1,342 ft)[1]
Mouth 
 • location
Mary River
 • elevation
287 metres (942 ft)
Length86 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
  1. "Bonzle Digital Atlas - Map of Laura River, WA". 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. "History of river names – L". Western Australian Land Information Authority. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  3. Muir, Alison; Muir, Dinee (1982). Forrest Family, Pioneers of Western Australia, 1842–1982. J.R. Muir & Son. pp. 32–33. ISBN 0-9592883-0-9.
  4. "Survey of the Eucla district". The West Australian. 13 October 1885. p. 3. Retrieved 11 July 2014.

18°41′43″S 127°01′06″E


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