Gregory Range
From a central point around 120 kilometres southeast of Croydon, 90 kilometres southwest of Georgetown and 350 kilometres west of Ingham, the Gregory Range runs east-west for around four hundred kilometres. The uplands form part of the Great Dividing Range, separating the catchment of the westward-flowing Norman River from that of the northward-flowing Gilbert and Robertson Rivers. The Stawell River — a tributary of the Flinders — flows south from the watershed.
The range is a lightly vegetated area of ephemeral watercourses and stony ridges with a southern portion of Jurassic sandstone and Mesoproterozoic basalt and granite dates.
John McKimlay named the ranges after Augustus Charles Gregory — the first European to travel through the area en route from Port Essington to Brisbane in 1855-56. — while he searched for traces of the lost Burke and Wills expedition in 1862.
Missing links:
Norman River
Robertson River
Stawell River
Flinders River
Jurassic
Mesoproterozoic
John McKimlay
Augustus Charles Gregory
Port Essington
Burke and Wills expedition
