Kendall River (Queensland)

This article is about a river in Queensland. For a river of the same name in Canada, see Kendall River.

Kendall
Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
Etymology	In honour of Thomas Kendall
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)

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

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.

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.

History

The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan and Mimungkun peoples.

Kugu Nganhcara (also known as Wik, Wiknantjara, Wik Nganychara, Wik Ngencherr) is a traditional language of the area, which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire.

The river was 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.

See also

• List of rivers of Australia § Queensland