Kendall River (Queensland)
The Kendall River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise in the Great Dividing Range and flows in a south westerly direction through mostly uninhabited country across Cape York Peninsula. It eventually discharges into the Holroyd River near the Kulinchin Outstation and then onto the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The river has a catchment area of of which an area of is composed of palustrine wetlands.History
The traditional owners of the area are the Wik-Munkan and Mimungkun peoples.
Kugu Nganchara is a traditional language of the area which includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Cook Shire.
Named by the pastoralists, Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander William Jardine in 1863. It was originally known as Kendall Creek and was named after a poet friend of their surveyor, Thomas Henry Kendall.
