Herbert River
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Blencoe Creek flowing over Blencoe Falls into the Herbert River gorge, 2006 | |
Location of Herbert River river mouth in Queensland | |
| Etymology | Robert Herbert |
| Location | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Queensland |
| Region | Far North Queensland, Wet Tropics of Queensland |
| City | Ingham |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Atherton Tableland, Great Dividing Range |
| Source confluence | Millstream and Wild River |
| • coordinates | 17°41′50″S 145°15′49″E / 17.69722°S 145.26361°E |
| • elevation | 642 m (2,106 ft) |
| Mouth | Coral Sea |
• location | Hinchinbrook Channel |
• coordinates | 18°32′16″S 146°17′21″E / 18.53778°S 146.28917°E |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Length | 288 km (179 mi) |
| Basin size | 10,130 km2 (3,910 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | 4,330,000 ML/a (137 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Blunder Creek, Sunday Creek (Queensland), Cameron Creek (Queensland), Blencoe Creek, Smoko Creek, Yamanie Creek, Gowrie Creek, Elphinstone Creek |
| • right | Battle Creek (Queensland), Nettle Creek (Queensland), Nanyeta (Return) Creek, Rudd Creek, Flaggy Creek, Stony Creek (Queensland), Stone River |
| Waterfalls | Herbert River Falls, Blencoe Falls, Millstream Falls |
The Herbert River is a river in Far North Queensland, Australia. The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it was named in 1864 by George Elphinstone Dalrymple explorer, after Robert George Wyndham Herbert, the first Premier of Queensland.