River
Fitzroy River
733 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into King Sound
In numbers
Length
733km
Average flow
84m³/s
Basin
93,829km²
Drop
460m
from 460 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
733 km of river and 4 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 460 m
- 49 kmLittle Fitzroy Rivertributary
- 154 kmAdcock Rivertributary
- 290 kmMargaret Rivertributary
- 393 kmCunninghame Rivertributary
- 733 kmKing Soundat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Kimberley region of Western Australia, Australia
At the mouth it carries 84 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 30 seconds. It drops from 460 m to 0 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 93,829 km², about the size of HU. 3,929 people live in it. Highest water: from February to March; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- DerbyLargest city on its banks · 4,110 people
- Broome International Airport (BME)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 165 km from the cityCar hire at BME airport (Broome)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From May to AugustThe best months to visit
Fitzroy River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to August.
From about 57 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,500 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
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The basin
Fitzroy River: the basin in numbers
95,693 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3,929people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 252maverage altitude of the basin
- 549mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.9°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 12% Forest
- 52% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Fitzroy River: what you find on the way
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Fitzroy River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
3mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (3)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Wells4.7 km away
- Mount Bedford3.4 km away
- One Tree Hill14 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Fitzroy River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (7)
Also: Margaret River, Adcock River, Hann River, Cunninghame River, Minnie River, Yeeda River, Little Fitzroy River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1421418) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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