River
Fitzroy River
480 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into Coral Sea
In numbers
Length
480km
Average flow
210m³/s
Basin
142,664km²
Drop
105m
from 105 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
480 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 10 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 105 m
- 187 kmDawson Rivertributary
- 375 kmLake Learmouth0.8 km²
- 441 kmNorman Gardens9,980 people
- 442 kmKawana4,272 people
- 444 kmWandal3,841 people
- 445 kmBerserker6,865 people
- 445 kmPark Avenue5,001 people
- 446 kmNeville Hewitt Bridge
- 446 kmRockhampton81,021 people
- 447 kmFitzroy Bridge (opened 1952)
- 447 kmFitzroy Bridge
- 447 kmThe Range5,561 people
- 447 kmAllenstown3,104 people
- 452 kmFrenchville8,640 people
- 452 kmKoongal4,164 people
- 480 kmCoral Seaat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Queensland, Australia
At the mouth it carries 211 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 12 seconds. It drops from 105 m to 0 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 142,664 km², about the size of TJ. 156,000 people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from August to November. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (24% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- RockhamptonLargest city on its banks · 81,021 people
- Rockhampton Airport (ROK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the cityCar hire at ROK airport (Rockhampton)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- April and from June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Fitzroy River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from August to November. Best months to visit: April and from June to September.
From about 52 m³/s in the lowest month to 390 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Fitzroy River: the basin in numbers
140,914 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 156,000people live in the basin
- 1/km²people per km²
- 276maverage altitude of the basin
- 698mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 21.0°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 1.6km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 26% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 71% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Fitzroy River: what you find on the way
- 3WeirsTartrus Weir, The Gap Weir
- 2WaterfallsKershaw Gardens waterfall
- 1Rapids
- 6Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Fitzroy River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Learmouthkm 3670.8km²
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Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Rundle Beach16 km away27.7°C
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Fitzroy River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Dawson River, Mackenzie River, Alligator Creek
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1421409) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Coastya — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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