Victoria River

The Victoria River is a river in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory, Australia.

The Victoria River is a river in the Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory, Australia.

On 12 September 1819, Philip Parker King came to the mouth of the Victoria and, twenty years later, in 1839, Captain J. C. Wickham arrived at the same spot in HMS Beagle and named the river after Queen Victoria. Crew members of the Beagle followed the river upstream into the interior for more than 200 kilometres (120 mi).In August 1855 Augustus Gregory sailed from Moreton Bay and at the end of September reached the estuary of the Victoria River. He sailed up the river and carried out extensive exploration.In 1847 Edmund Kennedy went on an expedition to trace the route of the "River Victoria" of Thomas Mitchell with a view to finding whether

there was a practical route to the Gulf of Carpentaria. This "River Victoria" was later renamed the Barcoo River.