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The Black River is a river located in North Queensland, Australia. The headwaters of the river rise near Ben Lomond East in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a northeasterly direction. The river flows roughly parallel with the Hervey Range Developmental Road past Mount Cataract and Mount Black on the Bohle Plains. The river is crossed by the Bruce Highway near Kulburr and discharges into the Coral Sea near Bushland Beach approximately north west of Townsville. The river descends over its course.〔 The catchment area occupies , including of riverine wetlands and of estuarine wetlands.〔 〕 A total of 22 species of fish have been found in the river, including the glassfish, Roman nose Goby, Fly-specked hardyhead, Golden Gudgeon, Jungle Perch, Barramundi, oxeye herring, eastern rainbowfish, spotted scat, and Crescent Perch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Black River catchment )〕 The river is named after John Melton Black who was a pastoralist, merchant and a settler of Townsville. The outer Townsville suburb of Black River is named after the river which flows through northern side of the area. ==See also== *List of rivers of Queensland 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black River (Queensland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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