Normanton
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Byerley Creek
The Jardine Brothers' name for the Red River in the south central part
of Cape York Peninsula.
Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols, London, 1921, p.295.
Caron River
The Dutch name, used by Flinders, for the Norman River flowing into the
Gulf of Carpentaria.
Flinders, Matthew, A Voyage to Terra Australis : undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in …, vol.2, and chart, London, 1814, p.132.
Carron River
This forgottern gold mining town was named for William Carron, the second
in command of Edmund Kennedy's 1848 expedition. The name survives in the
adjacent Carron River. Surveyed in 1887 at 18°03′ 142°23′ about 20
km north east of Croydon.
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.165.
Castleton
A forgotten gold mining town, originally known as O'Donahughes, was surveyed
in 1890 at 18°38' 143° 37', about 280km east of Normanton..
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.45.
Creen Creek
Now called the Carron River, a tributary of the Norman, near Normanton..
Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols, London, 1921, p.270.
Fossilbrook
A mining town, abandoned in 1965; it was surveyed in 1908 at 17°59' 144°23',
about 170 km west of Tully..
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.57.
Goothinga
A never settled township surveyed in 1890 at 17°34' 140°52', about 25 km north west of Normanton.
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.287.
Kimberley
Now called Karumba about 35km north west of Normanton.
Levey, George Collins, Hutchinson's Australasion Encyclopaedia, London, 1892, p.174.
Lane Creek
A forgotten mining town surveyed in 1891 at 18°05′ 143°27′about 255km east
of Normanton; the name survives in a stream on which the town was built.
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.61.
Percyville
Named by Richard Daintree after Professor John Percy under whom he had studied. A forgotten gold mining town at 19°01' 143°46' about 190 km south east of Croydon. World War Ⅰwas the end of Percyville, of a chiefly male community of over 300, every able-bodied men went to the war; not one returned.
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.71.
Point Fitzmaurice
Stokes's name for Point Austin in the eastern Gulf of Carpentaria.
Stokes, J. Lort., Discoveries in Australia, 2vols, London, 1846, vol.2, chart of the southern part of the Gulf of Corpentaria.
Revier Arnhem
Tasman's name for Van Rook Creek, a tributary of the Staaten River on the
western Cape York Peninsula.
Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols., p.74.
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Staaten River
The Dutch name for the Gilbert River about 100 km north of Normanton.
Schilder, Gunter, Australia Unveiled: The share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery
of Australia, Amsterdam, 1996, p.46.
Staten Revier
Carstenszoon's name for Accident Inlet, about 60km north of Normanton.
Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols., p.71
Urara
Now called Haydon after a local landowner, abont 50 km south east of Normanton.
Hooper, Colin, Angor to Zillmanton stories of North Queensland's deserted towns, Townsville, 1998, p.289.
Van der Lijn Revier
Tasman's name fot what is now known as Bynoe Inlet about 40 km north west
of Normanton.
Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols, London, p.164.
Van Diemen Revier
Tasman's name for the Norman River, near Normanton.
Jack, Robert, Logan, Northmost Australia, 2 vols, London, p..140.
Yappar River
Leichhard's name for the Norman River running into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Webster, E..M.,Whirlwinds in the Plain Ludwig Leichhardt -friends, foes and history, Melbourne, 1980, p.9.
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