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This article is about the Australian river. For the stream in Ireland, see Tully Stream.

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The Tully River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

Course and features

The Tully River rises in the Cardwell Range, part of the Great Dividing Range on the northern boundary of the Kirrama State Forest. The river flows generally north through Lake Koombooloomba and flows over the Tully Falls near Ravenshoe and descends through the Tully Gorge within the Tully Gorge National Park, part of the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Wet Tropics site. Below the dam wall, the river is joined by five minor tributaries before emptying into the Coral Sea at Tully Heads. The river descends 800 metres (2,600 ft) over its 133-kilometre (83 mi) course.[1]

People and land use

The Tully, together with the Herbert and the Burdekin rivers, were part of the proposed Bradfield Scheme to divert the upper reaches of the three rivers west of the Great Dividing Range and into the Thomson River designed to irrigate and drought-proof much of the western Queensland interior, as well as large areas of South Australia. The Scheme was proposed in 1938 and abandoned in 1947.[2][3][4]

At the Koombooloomba Dam, the Koombooloomba Hydro Power Station and a little further downriver, the Kareeya Hydro Power Station, generate hydroelectric power from the flow of the river.[5]

In 2007 there was a white water rafting accident which took the life of 22-year-old Townsville woman at Tully Gorge.[6] Another man drowned at Tully Gorge while rafting on 14 February 2009.[7] A 2012 inquest into five deaths on the river due to rafting incidents that occurred between July 2007 and February 2009 recommended that each rapid be risk assessed and that a code of practice be adopted for the industry.[8]

Etymology

The river was named in honour of William Alcock Tully, Surveyor General of Queensland from 1875 to 1889.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference bonzle was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Augmenting Queensland's Inland Water Resources by J.J.C. Bradfield". The Courier-Mail. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 1 October 1938. p. 6. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  3. ^ ""Suggested Answer" to question-without-notice of the Prime Minister, explaining the impracticality of the Bradfield Scheme" (PDF). National Archives of Australia. 14 November 1946.
  4. ^ Spearritt, Peter (1979). Bradfield, John Job Crew (1867 - 1943). Vol. Vol. 7. Melbourne University Press. pp. 381–383. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help); |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "Koombooloomba Hydro". Stanwell Corporation. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  6. ^ Shannon Molloy (31 July 2008). "Drowning victim's raft went down wrong route". Brisbane Times. Fairfax Digital. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  7. ^ "Tourist killed on Tully River white water rafting trip". The Courier-Mail. Queensland Newspapers. 14 February 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  8. ^ Healy, Samantha (30 June 2012). "Inquest into deaths of five tourists while white water rafting in north Queensland recommends rapids be risk assessed". The Sunday Mail. Queensland. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  9. ^ "Tully River (entry 35305)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 28 August 2015.


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