When Does the Gascoyne River Flow?

The Gascoyne River flows for about 120 days of the year and for the rest of the year the river flows underneath the dry river bed. Carnarvon is located at the only place in Australia where the desert reaches out into the sea.

Where does the Gascoyne River start and finish?

Gascoyne River, ephemeral river of west-central Western Australia. It rises in the northeastern Robinson Ranges west of the Gibson Desert, flows generally westward for 475 miles (760 km) through gold-mining and sheep-raising country, and empties into the Indian Ocean at Carnarvon on Shark Bay.

When did the Gascoyne River last flood?

A report on the Gascoyne River Catchment following the 2010–11 flood, Western Australia. Flooding in the Gascoyne River Catchment during the summer of 2010–11 caused the loss of an estimated 9 million tonnes of soil from erosion, and a damage bill of about $90 million.

Robert Thorne

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