Lukin River
From its headwaters below Mount Ryan, the Lukin River flows into the Coleman River. Tributaries include Battery Creek, Fish Creek, Kirby's Camp Creek, and Bamboo Creek.
James Venture Mulligan named the river after Brisbane newspaper editor Gresley Lukin on 8 September 1875. Robert Logan Jack, who encountered the stream on his 1879 expedition from Cooktown to the Coen diggings and the Archer River, points out that it is
... the river named the HOLROYD by the Jardine Brothers in 1864, and this name should be restored to it.
Jack went on to describe the Lukin thus:
... rather a creek of the first magnitude than a river as yet. The creek had many dry channels. Its bed was graced with Leichhardt trees and teatree, but had no scrub. It had scarcely any water, only a few shallow holes in one of the channels. We prospected a little in the bed of the river, but got no gold.
A Rest Area where the river crosses the Peninsula Developmental Road is a popular stop for travellers heading to and from points further north..
