Victoria River (Northern Territory)
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Victoria River
The Victoria River is in longest river in the Northern Territory of Australia.[1] It flows into the Timor Sea. Philip Parker King explored the mouth of the river on 12 September 1819.[2] In 1839, the crew of HMS Beagle travelled more than 200 km up the river.[2] In 1854 the explorer Augustus Charles Gregory reached the river after crossing the north of Australia from Brisbane, Queensland.[2]
Victoria River (Northern Territory) Media
- Killing an Alligator Victoria River (Discoveries in Australia).jpg
Killing an Alligator, Victoria River, from John Lort Stokes' Discoveries in Australia (1846, vol. 2)
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