Herbert River

Herbert
Herbert
	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.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Herbert River Place name details (entry 15762)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Basin & Surface Water Management Area: Herbert River". Archived from the original on 4 October 2009.
^ "Map of Herbert River". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2015.