Bow River (Kimberley region, Western Australia)

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Bow River
Origin Kimberley region
Mouth Confluence with the Ord River
Basin countries Australia
Length 148 kilometres
This article is about a river in northern Western Australia. For a river of the same name in southern Western Australia, see Bow River (Western Australia). For a river of the same name in Canada, see Bow River.

Bow River is a 148 km long tributary of the Ord River in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. The river was named by pastoralist Michael Durack in 1882 after a river in his homeland of County Galway, Ireland.[1]

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Coordinates: 16°39′00″S, 128°39′50″E