Holroyd River
Rising south of Mount White in the McIlwraith Range, the Holroyd River flows westwards for 325 kilometres across the Cape York Peninsula through Wik, Bakanh, Thaayorre and Kaanju country in braided channels draining a 10,286-square-kilometre catchment, merging with the Kendall River near Kulinchin and discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The 2021 census reported that the rural locality within the Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire, which takes its name from the river, had no people or a very low population.
Francis Lascelles Jardine named the stream after the explorer, doctor and politician Arthur Todd Holroyd in 1864. Holroyd was a Trustee when the Jardine brothers attended the Sydney Grammar School.
