The Carson River is a
river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
in the
Kimberley region of
Western Australia
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.
Geography
The headwaters of the river rise at the base of the Foster Range near the southwestern edge of the
Drysdale River National Park. The river flows in a northerly direction along the Carson Escarpment and discharges into the
King Edward River near Aragoon, about south of
Kalumburu. The river has four
tributaries, including Morgan River, Swida Creek and Pronga-Marie Creek.
History
The
traditional owners of the areas around the river are the
Wilawila,
Miwa and Wunambal peoples. The river contains several permanent pools where examples of
Indigenous Australian art, known as the
Gwion Gwion rock paintings, can be found along the cliff faces.
The river was named in 1886 by the explorer Charles Burrowes while
surveying
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the land, terrestrial Plane (mathematics), two-dimensional or Three-dimensional space#In Euclidean geometry, three-dimensional positions of Point (geom ...
the area for the Victoria Squatting Company. He named it after the chairman of the company, David Carson.
References
Rivers of the Kimberley region of Western Australia
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