River
Georgina River
1,130 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into Eyre Creek6th longest in Australia
In numbers
Length
1,130km
Average flow
22m³/s
Basin
232,000km²
Drop
169m
from 263 m to 94 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,130 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 263 m
- 241 kmBuckley Rivertributary
- 288 kmRanken Rivertributary
- 495 kmWoodroffe Rivertributary
- 985 kmHamilton Rivertributary
- 1,130 kmEyre Creekat 94 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 22 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 114 seconds. It drops from 263 m to 94 m, 0.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 232,000 km², about the size of UG. 3,180 people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from August to November. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Bedourie Airport (BEU)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 39 km from the cityCar hire at ISA airport (Mount Isa)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From April to AugustThe best months to visit
Georgina River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from August to November. Best months to visit: from April to August.
From about 27 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,000 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
Georgina River: the basin in numbers
185,687 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3,180people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 277maverage altitude of the basin
- 321mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.1°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 36% 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.
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
Georgina River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (8)
Also: Herbert River, Burke River, Sandover River, Ranken River, Woodroffe River, Buckley River, Hamilton River, Templeton River
In the same basin
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1509393) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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