Beaufort River

Beaufort River
Country	Australia
Basin
Main source	west of Woodanilling 262 metres (860 ft)
River mouth	Arthur River 228 metres (748 ft)[1]
Basin size	1,565 square kilometres (604 sq mi)[2]
Physical characteristics
Length	80 kilometres (50 mi)[3]
Discharge	Average rate: 23,277 ML/a (26.048 cu ft/s)

The Beaufort River is a river in the South West of Western Australia.

The river was named in 1835 by John Septimus Roe, Surveyor General of Western Australia, after a friend Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort who was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1829-1855.^[4]

The rivers has its headwaters west of Woodanilling near Melbourne Vale and flows in a westerly direction until it flows into the Arthur River near Duranillin. The Arthur River is a tributary of the Blackwood River.

The only tributary of the river is the 7.5 kilometres (5 mi) Beaufort River East that joins the main river just east of where it crosses Albany Highway.

The river's catchment falls within the Blackwood catchment's Beaufort zone as part of the Beaufort system. The system is composed of broad valley floors with a grey sandy duplex and was previously a wandoo sheoak ^[5] woodland but has now mostly been cleared for agriculture.

References

Coordinates: 33°31′S 116°50′E / 33.517°S 116.833°E / -33.517; 116.833