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The Holroyd River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. ==Course and features== The headwaters of the river rise south of Mount White in the McIlwraith Range in the Great Dividing Range. It then flows westwards forming a series of braided channels and continuing through the uninhabited country until merging with the Kendall river near the Kulinchin Outstation and discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The river is joined by eight tributaries including the Kendall River, Sandlewood Creek, Station Creek, Potlappa Creek, The Big Spring, First Spring, Christmas Creek and the Kendle River.〔 The catchment area of the creek occupies an of which an area of is composed of estuarine wetlands. A variety of landscapes are found within the catchment including tropical savannah woodlands, open grasslands, beach ridges, wetlands and paperbark stands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holroyd River - Conservation and cultural values )〕 The river has a mean annual discharge of .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=holroyd river sub-basin within the (Northern) Holroyd Plain sub-bioregion )〕 The river was named in 1864 by the pastoralist Francis Lascelles Jardine after the explorer, doctor and politician Arthur Todd Holroyd. The traditional owners of the area are the Wik, Bakanh, Thaayorre and Kaanju peoples who inhabited the drainage basin for thousands of years.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holroyd River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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