: ''For the Selwyn Range in the Canadian Rockies, see:
Selwyn Range (Canada)
The Selwyn Range is a mountain range in the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. A subrange of the Park Ranges of the Continental Ranges, it is located west of Jasper National Park, east of Valemount and south of Mount Robson Provincial Park.Biv ...
. Note also the
Selwyn Mountains on the border between the Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada.''
The Selwyn Range (also known as the Isa Highlands) is a rugged mountain range near
Mount Isa and
Cloncurry in north-west
Queensland, Australia, composed largely of
Proterozoic
The Proterozoic () is a geological eon spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8million years ago. It is the most recent part of the Precambrian "supereon". It is also the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale, and it is subdivided ...
metamorphic rocks. It is drained in the north by the
Williams and
Fullarton rivers, which run into the
Gulf of Carpentaria
The Gulf of Carpentaria (, ) is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea). The northern boundary is ...
, and in the south by the
McKinlay River and its tributary,
Boorama Creek which drain also into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The area is heavily
mineralised, containing
copper,
gold,
lead, and
zinc, and is important for
mining.
The
Kalkadoon people are the traditional owners of the land.
Kalkatunga (also known as Kalkadoon, Kalkadunga, Kalkatungu) is an
Australian Aboriginal language
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
. The Kalkatunga language region is
North-West Queensland including the local government areas of the
City of Mount Isa.
The climate of the Selwyn Range is
tropical,
monsoonal and
semi-arid, with an erratic, mainly summer, annual rainfall of 380 mm. Vegetation cover is low
eucalypt woodland and
spinifex grassland.
Notes
References
Jones, M.R. (2004). Alluvial landscapes of the Maronan area, Cloncurry - McKinlay District, Queensland. CRC LEME Open File Report 129 (abstract)Robertson, I.D.M.; & Li Shu. (2003). Eloise Cu-Au deposit, Cloncurry District, Queensland. CRC LEME.State of the Environment Queensland 1999 – Inland Waters
Mountain ranges of Queensland
North West Queensland
Shire of Cloncurry
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