North Kennedy River
From Robert Logan Jack's Northmost Australia:
(p. 463) As the water-course in question is west, not north, of the Kennedy River, the name is misleading, and should be altered. I propose that the name Therrimburi Creek, applied to the head of the water-course, be extended to the whole of it. There are already on the map, within 18 miles from west to east, a "North Kennedy River," a "Kennedy River," a "Little Kennedy River" and a "Kennedy Creek." Respect for the memory of the unfortunate Kennedy does not justify the confusion of the map.
(p. 639) NORTH KENNEDY RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
From lat. 15° 2' N. and long. 144° 5' E. via the infall of Station (Warner's) Creek (lat. 14° 51' S. and long. 144° 6' E.) and the inf all (lat. 14° 49' S. and long. 144° 5' E.) of the branch whose "outfall" from the Normanby has already been referred to; to its mouth in Princess Charlotte Bay (lat. 14° 30' S. and long. 144° 2' E.). (SEE MAP E.) This mouth, Mr. Embley informs me, is quite a respectable inlet, capable of accommodating small craft.
The NORTH KENNEDY is the seaward prolongation of THERRIMBURI CREEK (also surveyed by Mr. Embley), on which a station named Koolburra was taken up by Henry Jones [2] in 1884. I would suggest the application of the name Therrimburi to the whole of the water-course from its source to the Bay. The name North Kennedy is in any case an unhappily chosen one, as the river lies west, not north of the Kennedy. The elimination of even one of the numerous and confusing "Kennedy" rivers would in itself be a gain.
Mr. Embley also surveyed THERRIMBURI CREEK (although he did not know it by that name) from its head in "Osmer No. 3" block (lat. 15° 32' S. and long. 143° 56' E.) to near the north-east corner of "Koolburra No. 4" block.
