Archer River
Named after the Archer brothers of Gracemere near Rockhampton by Francis Lascelles Jardine and Alexander Jardine when they passed through the area in 1865 en route to Somerset, the Archer River rises in the McIlwraith Range and flows west through Wik, Kaantju and Wikampama country before discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria — along with the Watson River and the Ward River — near Aurukun at Archer Bay..
The Archer's 13,820 square kilometre catchment's tropical savanna plains and wetlands are largely undeveloped; a small dam on the Coen River—one of several tributaries that join the Archer on its 268-kilometre course—supplies Coen township with water.
The river's estuary probably coincides with Willem Jansz's Dubbelde Ree (1606) and Jan Carstensz's Coen River (1623). Robert Logan Jack subsequently named it the Peach when he encountered the headwaters in 1879., unaware that it was the same stream the Jardines had forded lower down fourteen years earlier..
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Archer brothers
Gracemere
Francis Lascelles Jardine
Alexander Jardine
Somerset
Archer Bay.
Coen River
Coen
Dubbelde Ree
Robert Logan Jack
Peach River
