Edward River
Rising in the Great Dividing Range's Curlew Range and flowing through Bakanh and Thaayorre country for 208 kilometres, the Edward River crosses largely uninhabited plains country, draining a 7,521 square kilometre catchment before discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria about 6.5 kilometres north-northwest of the remote Aboriginal community of Pormpuraaw, formerly known as Edward River.
While Edward River remains a listed locality within the Cook Shire, according to the 2021 census, the locality had no people or a very low population.
Surveyor John Thomas Embley named the stream after his brother, Melbourne anaesthetist Dr Edward Henry Embley, in 1884.
Missing links:
Curlew Range
John Thomas Embley
