River
Flinders River
1,004 km from source to mouth · Australia.
AustraliaFlows into Gulf of Carpentaria7th longest in Australia
In numbers
Length
1,004km
Average flow
120m³/s
Basin
109,000km²
Drop
824m
from 823 m to -1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,004 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 823 m
- 294 kmDutton Rivertributary
- 294 kmStawell Rivertributary
- 752 kmCloncurry Rivertributary
- 806 kmSaxby Rivertributary
- 959 kmBynoe Rivertributary
- 1,004 kmGulf of Carpentariaat -1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Queensland, Australia
At the mouth it carries 122 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 20 seconds. It drops from 823 m to -1 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 109,000 km², about the size of GT. 6,218 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
- KarumbaLargest city on its banks · 1,275 people
- Normanton Airport (NTN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 33 km from the cityCar hire at CNJ airport (Cloncurry)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From May to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Flinders River, month by month
Highest water: from February to March
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from May to September.
From about 16 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,100 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.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Flinders River: the basin in numbers
107,777 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 6,218people live in the basin
- 0/km²people per km²
- 244maverage altitude of the basin
- 512mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.8°Caverage air temperature
- 0.0km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 6% Forest
- 83% 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
Flinders River: what you find on the way
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Flinders 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.
1beach at the mouth or on the banksCoastya
Beaches (1)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Bynoe Inlet2.6 km away · cove30.7°C
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
Flinders River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Cloncurry River, Bynoe River, Saxby River, Stawell River, Dutton River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1428816) · 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 | Coastya — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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