Lyons River
| Lyons (Mithering) | |
| River | |
| Name origin: Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons | |
| Country | Australia |
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| State | Western Australia |
| Region | Gascoyne |
| Part of | Gascoyne River catchment |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | Calbrajacka Creek, Onslow Creek, Edmund River, Frederick River |
| - right | Koorabooka Creek |
| Source | Teano Range |
| - location | below Staten Hill |
| - elevation | 535 m (1,755 ft) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Mouth | confluence with the Gascoyne River |
| - location | Jimba Jimba |
| - elevation | 137 m (449 ft) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Length | 561 km (349 mi) |
| Discharge | for mouth |
| - average | 460,600 m3/s (16,265,935 cu ft/s) |
| National park | Kennedy Range National Park |
| [1][2][3] | |
The Lyons River is a river in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
The headwaters of the Lyons rise just west of the Teano Range and the river flows generally south-west, joined by 36 tributaries including the Edmund River, Frederick River, Onslow Creek, Gifford Creek, Koorabooka Creek and Ulura Creek. The Lyons reaches its confluence with the Gascoyne River near the township of Gascoyne Junction near the southern end of the Kennedy Range. The river descends 398 metres (1,306 ft) over its 561-kilometre (349 mi) course.[2]
Several permanent pools of water exist along the river including Cattle Pool, Windarrie Pool and Bubbawonnara Pool.
The Lyons River is known as Mithering by the local Indigenous Australians, the Malgaru people. The first European to discover the river was explorer Francis Gregory in 1858,[4] he named the river after the naval hero Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons.[1]
See also
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References
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Rivers of Western Australia
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| Rivers of the Gascoyne region | |
| Rivers of the Goldfields-Esperance region | |
| Rivers of the Great Southern region | |
| Rivers of the Kimberley region |
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| Rivers of the Mid West region | |
| Rivers of the Peel and Perth regions (and streams) |
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| Rivers of the Pilbara region | |
| Rivers of the South West region | |
| Rivers of the Wheatbelt region | |
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