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The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is a river in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia. It was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861. It is sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries and is one of three major Queensland river systems that flow into the Lake Eyre basin .
Site of Camp 65 on Cooper Creek. In 1860, Cooper Creek was the outer limit of the land that had been explored by Europeans, the river having been visited by Captain Charles Sturt in 1845 and Augustus Charles Gregory in 1858. Burke's party arrived at the Cooper on 11 November and they formed a depot at Camp LXIII (Camp 63).
The Burke and Wills Dig Tree on the banks of Cooper's Creek is associated with explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills.The tree was one of two trees blazed on 21 April 1861 by William Brahe and party who had remained at Cooper's Creek while Burke, Wills, Charles Gray and John King forged ahead to the northern coast of Australia. [2]
Nappa Merrie homestead in 1959 The Dig Tree on Cooper Creek. Nappa Merrie Station, most commonly known as Nappa Merrie, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in central west Queensland, Australia.
The Cooper Floodplain below Windorah comprises a 1741 km 2 tract of floodplain of the Cooper Creek river system, below the town of Windorah, in the Channel Country of western Queensland, Australia. When inundated it is an important breeding site for large numbers of waterbirds.
The property owners are working with the local natural resource management group, Desert Channels Queensland. [2] The Yapunyah Waterhole is a permanent waterhole in the Cooper Creek catchment and the Lake Eyre Basin. It lies in the Grey Range [3] between Adavale and Yaraka in South West Queensland. [4]
Cooper's Creek or Coopers Creek may refer to: Cooper Creek, formerly Cooper's Creek, a river in Queensland and South Australia, Australia; Coopers Creek (New South Wales), a river in Australia; Coopers Creek, New Zealand, a town in the Waimakariri District; Coopers Creek (West Virginia), a stream in the United States; Coopers Creek, Victoria, a ...
The Barcoo River in western Queensland, Australia rises on the northern slopes of the Warrego Range, flows in a south-westerly direction and unites with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek. The first European to see the river was Thomas Mitchell in 1846, who named it Victoria River, [ 1 ] believing it to be the same river as that named ...