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Gilbert River (Queensland)
The Gilbert River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. When combined with the Einasleigh River, the river system is the largest river system in northern Australia.
==Features and location==
The Gilbert River rises below Conical Hill in the Einasleigh Uplands, draining the eastern slopes of the Gregory Range and the western slopes of the Newcastle Range, north of . The river flows generally northwest, joined by forty tributaries that drain the Blackbraes National Park including, from source to mouth, the Styx, Percy, Robertson, Langdon, Little, and Einasleigh rivers and numerous creeks. North of the Gilbert discharges into the Gulf of Carpenteria. However, northwest of an anabranch of the river forms confluence with the Smithburne River, also emptying into the Gulf.〔 The Gilbert River has a catchment area of of which , or a third of the total catchment, is a vast estuarine delta approximately wide that largely consists of tidal flats and mangrove swamps across the Gulf Country. The river descends over its course.〔
The Gilbert River is a seasonal stream and discharge can vary greatly depending on the intensity of the monsoon. When combined with the Einasleigh River, the Gilbert River has the sixth-highest discharge of any river in Australia, slightly less than that of the Potomac in North America. In an intense wet season, however, the discharge can be as large as that of the Fraser River in Canada, and in a mild wet season like that of 1951-52, the discharge can be as little as one tenth of the long term mean. It is estimated that runoff from the combined Gilbert-Einasleigh River system totals about 2.2 percent of the total runoff from Australia. The record major flood of the Gilbert River was in January 1974 and the floods of February 1991 and in January and February 2009, caused widespread road closures and inundation of properties throughout the catchment.〔
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