Kendall River (Queensland)
| Kendall | |
| River | |
| Name origin: In honour of Thomas Kendall | |
| Country | Australia |
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| State | Queensland |
| Region | Far North Queensland |
| 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 |
| - elevation | 3 m (10 ft) |
| - coordinates | 14°12′21″S 141°37′39″E / 14.20583°S 141.62750°ECoordinates: 14°12′21″S 141°37′39″E / 14.20583°S 141.62750°E |
| Length | 167 km (104 mi) |
| Basin | 4,851 km2 (1,873 sq mi) |
 Location of Kendall River mouth in Queensland
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The Kendall River is a river located 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.
The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan and Mimungkun peoples.
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.
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