| Laura River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Australia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Bailey Range |
| • elevation | 409 metres (1,342 ft)[1] |
| Mouth | |
• location | Mary River |
• elevation | 287 metres (942 ft) |
| Length | 86kilometres (53 mi)[2] |
Laura River is a river in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise in the Bailey Range, approximately 20 km south of Halls Creek; the river then flows in a south-westerly direction crossing the Great Northern Highway near Dillinger Bore before discharging into the Mary River of which it is a tributary.
The river was named in 1884 by government surveyor George Russell Turner, of the 1884 Kimberley Survey Expedition, who possibly named it after Laura Eliza Frances Forrest (1877-1960), the niece of Surveyor General John Forrest.[3][2][4]
18°41′43″S 127°01′06″E / 18.69528°S 127.01833°E / -18.69528; 127.01833
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Rivers of Western Australia
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| Rivers of the Gascoyne region |
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| Rivers of the Goldfields-Esperance region |
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| Rivers of the Great Southern region |
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| Rivers of the Kimberley region |
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| Rivers of the Mid West region |
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| Rivers of the Peel and Perth regions |
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| Rivers of the Pilbara region |
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| Rivers of the South West region |
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| Rivers of the Wheatbelt region |
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