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King Sound is a large gulf in northern Western Australia. It expands from the mouth of the
. Retrieved 7 January 2007 The tidal range and water dynamic were researched in 1997–1998. Waters within the sound are generally turbid. The turbidity is associated with the erosion of tidal flats.
Geoscience Australia place names
Sounds of Western Australia Kimberley coastline of Western Australia IMCRA meso-scale bioregions
King Sound is a large gulf in northern Western Australia. It expands from the mouth of the Fitzroy River Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to:
People As a given name
*Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name:
**FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855)
** Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beau ...
, one of Australia's largest watercourses, and opens to the Indian Ocean. It is about long, and averages about in width. The port town of Derby lies near the mouth of the Fitzroy River on the eastern shore of King Sound. King Sound has the highest tides in Australia, and amongst the highest in the world, reaching a maximum tidal range of at Derby.Derby tides at derbytourism.com.au. Retrieved 7 January 2007 The tidal range and water dynamic were researched in 1997–1998. Waters within the sound are generally turbid. The turbidity is associated with the erosion of tidal flats.
Geography
Open waters of the sound cover 2,325 km2. Other rivers that discharge into the sound include the Lennard River, Meda River, Robinson River and May River. King Sound has a catchment area of 21,315 km2. King Sound is part of theCanning Basin
The Canning Basin is a geological basin located in Western Australia. Deposition of sediments began after early-Ordovician thermal subsidnce, and continued into the Early Cretaceous.
The Basin covers approximately 506,000 km2 of which appro ...
. The climate is semi-arid and tropical with a strong monsoonal influence.
King Sound is bordered by the island clusters of the Buccaneer Archipelago to the East and Cape Leveque to the West.
The mean depth of King Sound of 18 metres. The mouth of King Sound features a channel that is 50 metres deep and 20 kilometres wide.
History
The traditional owners and original inhabitants of the area are Indigenous Australians, namely the Nimanburu, Njulnjul, and Warwa peoples. The first European to explore the sound was William Dampier who visited the region aboard in 1688. Notedsurveyor
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...
Phillip Parker King surveyed the coastline in 1821 and named the area Cygnet Bay. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00028.html#chapter02 The area was later visited by John Stokes and John Wickham aboard in 1838. The sound was later named after King.
In the 1880s it was one of the sites in the Kimberleys of a short-lived gold rush.
Doctor’s Creek, in the south of King Sound, has been the site of various proposals for tidal range energy plants since the 1960s. In 2013, the Derby Tidal Power Project from Tidal Energy Australia was given environmental approval. The 40MW tidal power station is expected to cost $375 million to construct.
See also
* List of soundsReferences
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Geoscience Australia place names
Sounds of Western Australia Kimberley coastline of Western Australia IMCRA meso-scale bioregions