Country Australia River mouth Indian Ocean
sea level Basin area 33.9 km² | Main source 142 metres (466 ft) Length 10 km Mouth Indian Ocean | |
Basin size 33.9 square kilometres (13 sq mi) Discharge Average rate:
587.4 megalitres per year (20.74×10^ cu ft/a) | ||
The Buller River is a river in the Mid West of Western Australia, near Geraldton.
The river is a short coastal stream of around 10 km length just to the north of Geraldton, in the Drummond Cove and Oakajee areas. The headwaters of the river are 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Geraldton. The Buller flows in a southerly direction, initially following the east side of the North West Coastal Highway to a point 4 kilometres (2 mi) north of Drummond Cove, where it turns to the west, to discharge into the Indian Ocean.
HistoryEdit
The Buller River was named on 7 April 1839 by the explorer George Grey while on his second disastrous expedition along the Western Australian coast, probably after Charles Buller M.P., an associate of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Grey's friend William Hutt (brother of the 2nd Governor of Western Australia, John Hutt), and an active parliamentary proponent of the free colonization of South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand.