Mitchell River
From headwaters about 50 kilometres northwest of Cairns near Rumula on the Atherton Tablelands, the Mitchell River flows northwest across Cape York Peninsula for approximately 750 kilometres, passing through Kuku Yalanji, Kunjen, and Yir-Yoront country, separating the Kokomini from the Agwamin, and discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Significant rivers among the Mitchell's thirty-four tributaries include the Alice, Dry, Hodgkinson, Little Mitchell, Lynd, McLeod, Palmer, St George, Tate, and Walsh. Settlements within the Mitchell's 71,757 square kilometre catchment include Almaden, Chillagoe, Dimbulah, Kowanyama, Mount Carbine, Mount Molloy, and Mutchilba.
Ludwig Leichhardt named the river after New South Wales Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell on 16 June 1845. Its estuary may have been the river Jan Carstensz named the Vereenighde in 1623.
