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Beaufort River

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Length
  
80 km

Source
  
Country
  
Australia

Basin area
  
1,565 kmĀ²

Mouth
  
Main source
  
west of Woodanilling262 metres (860 ft)

River mouth
  
Arthur River228 metres (748 ft)

Basin size
  
1,565 square kilometres (604 sq mi)

Discharge
  
Average rate:23,277 ML/a (26.048 cu ft/s)

The Beaufort River is a river in the South West of Western Australia.

Map of Beaufort River, Duranillin WA, Australia

The river was named in 1835 by John Septimus Roe, Surveyor General of Western Australia, after a friend Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort who was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1829-1855.

The rivers has its headwaters west of Woodanilling near Melbourne Vale and flows in a westerly direction until it flows into the Arthur River near Duranillin. The Arthur River is a tributary of the Blackwood River.

The only tributary of the river is the 7.5 kilometres (5 mi) Beaufort River East that joins the main river just east of where it crosses Albany Highway.

The river's catchment falls within the Blackwood catchment's Beaufort zone as part of the Beaufort system. The system is composed of broad valley floors with a grey sandy duplex and was previously a wandoo sheoak woodland but has now mostly been cleared for agriculture.

References

Beaufort River Wikipedia


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