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ref_no: 47589
place_name: Pennefather River
alt_name: null
type: STRM
description: Watercourse
status: Y
currency: Y
gazetted_date: -2384553600000
gazette_page: 1332.0
plan_no: null
modified_date: 1552485228000
lga_name: Cook Shire
comments: Coordinates upgraded from 12° 13' 55" S, 141° 44' 4" E on 11/03/2019, job# 18112.
longitude: 141° 43' 38" E
latitude: 12° 13' 54" S
longitude_dd: 141.72722
latitude_dd: -12.23167
origin:
history: Named by the Secretary for Public Lands on 23 May 1894, following the recommendation of the Government Resident at Thursday Island, Hon. John Douglas, after Charles Edward de Fonblanque Pennefather (1848-1922) captain of the Queensland Government Schooner Pearl, who explored the river in 1880. Douglas also noted that the river's Indigenous language name as Taingyoongoo, but did not state his source of this name. The river was renamed from Coen River (1802-1894), to avoid confusion with another Coen River which is a tributary of the Archer River. Place of first landfall of the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1606, its first European name possibly was R. met het Bosch (river with bush). In 1802 Commander Matthew Flinders RN (1774-1814) navigator and hydrographer, identified the river as one named the Coen on an early Dutch chart. His name for the river remained on Admiralty charts until 1967. Refer 'Report of the Government Resident at Thursday Island for 1892-3', Queensland Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, Volume 2, 1894, p. 915 and Lands Department in-letter 94/7794 (Queensland State Archives LAN/A220, Item ID 22671). Refer also G. Schilder, Australia unveiled, Amsterdam, pp. 44, 286-287; M. Flinders, A voyage to Terra Australis, London, 1814, Volume 2, p. 127 and G.S. Wharton, 'The Pennefather River: place of Australian national heritage' in the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Inc., Gulf of Carpentaria Scientific Study Report, Brisbane, 2005, pp. 35-91.
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Point:
X: 141.7272200000001
Y: -12.231669999999951