Basalt River

River in Queensland, Australia

19°56′35″S 144°47′41″E / 19.94306°S 144.79472°E / -19.94306; 144.79472 • elevation750 m (2,460 ft) Mouthconfluence with the Burdekin River

• location

north of Charters Towers

• coordinates

19°37′51″S 145°52′44″E / 19.63083°S 145.87889°E / -19.63083; 145.87889

• elevation

277 m (909 ft)Length179 km (111 mi)Basin size2,900 km² (1,100 sq mi)Basin featuresRiver systemBurdekin RiverTributaries • leftHarry Creek, Wyandotte Creek, Little Limestone Creek, Gorge Creek, Sandy Creek (Queensland), Stockyard Creek (Queensland) • rightEzzy Creek, Jacko Creek^[1]

The Basalt River is a river in North Queensland, Australia. The river rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range and flows generally east into the Burdekin River about 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Charters Towers. The river has a length of 179 kilometres (111 mi)^[1] and a catchment size of 2,900 square kilometres (1,100 sq mi).^[2]

The river catchment is mostly used for livestock grazing.^[3] The river contains a number of large, permanent, deep and clear waterholes.

References

^ ^a ^b "Map of Basalt River, QLD". Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
^ "Burdekin River". Bureau of Meteorology (Australia). Retrieved 17 June 2009.
^ "Upper Burdekin Basin". NQ Dry Tropics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2011.

Rivers of Queensland

Rivers flowing towards the Coral Sea

Rivers of the Far North Qld catchment	Annan Barron Bloomfield Daintree Endeavour Esk Hann Herbert Jeannie Johnstone Laura Lockhart Mossman Mulgrave Normanby Olive Pascoe Russell Stewart Tully Jackey Jackey
Rivers of the North Qld catchment	Basalt Black Bohle Bowen Broken Burdekin Campaspe Cape Don (North Qld) Haughton Herbert Johnstone O'Connell Pioneer Ross Barratta Ross (North Qld) Ross (Townsville)
Rivers of the Central Qld catchment	Auburn Belyando Boyne (Central Qld) Burnett Calliope Comet Connors Dawson Dee Don (Central Qld) Fitzroy Isaac Kolan Mackenzie Nogo Nogoa Rawbelle Styx (East) Suttor Baffle Ross (Central Qld) Waterpark
Rivers of the Wide Bay–Burnett catchment	Boyne (Wide Bay–Burnett) Burnett Burrum Elliott Isis Kolan Mary Perry Stuart Susan
Rivers of the Moreton Bay and South East Qld catchments	Albert Bremer Brisbane Caboolture Coomera Logan Maroochy Mooloolah Nerang Noosa North Pine Pine Pimpama South Pine Stanley Breakfast Bulimba Calamvale Eprapah Gold Ithaca Kedron Brook Lockyer Loders Moggill Norman Oxley Teviot Brook

Rivers flowing towards the Gulf of Carpentaria

Rivers of Far North Qld catchment	Alice Archer Coen Coleman Ducie Edward Embley Holroyd Jardine Kendall Lynd Mcdonald Mission Mitchell Palmer Pennefather Smithburne Tate Walsh Ward Watson Wenlock Wilton
Rivers of Gulf Country catchment	Albert Borer Calvert Carron Clara Copperfield Cox Einasleigh Etheridge Flinders Gilbert Gregory Leichhardt Nicholson Norman Saxby Staaten Styx (West) Yappar Settlement Creek

Rivers of the Murray–Darling basin
Balonne Bokhara Boomi Condamine Culgoa Dumaresq Langlo Little Weir Macintyre Maranoa Merivale Moonie Narran Nive Paroo Severn Ward (CWQ) Warrego Weir Pike