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Barton River (Western Australia)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Barton River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the river rise on the edge of the Carson Escarpment where it meets the Barton plain and flows in a westerly direction until it discharges into the Drysdale River, of which it is a tributary. The traditional owners of the areas around the river are the Miwa people. The river was named in 1901 by government surveyor Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman, after the first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton.

Flows through: Australia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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