Isis | |
Name Etymology: | The Isis |
Pushpin Map: | Australia Queensland |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Isis River river mouth in Queensland |
Subdivision Type1: | Country |
Subdivision Name1: | Australia |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | Queensland |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Wide Bay–Burnett |
Length: | 27km (17miles) |
Source Confluence: | Smith Creek and Sarahana Creek |
Source Confluence Location: | east of |
Source Confluence Coordinates: | -25.2775°N 152.3331°W |
Source Confluence Elevation: | 35m (115feet) |
Mouth: | confluence with the Burrum River |
Mouth Location: | south of |
Mouth Coordinates: | -25.2103°N 152.5381°W |
Mouth Elevation: | 0m (00feet) |
River System: | Burrum River catchment |
Basin Size: | 526km2 |
Extra: | [1] |
The Isis River is a river in the Wide Bay–Burnett region of Queensland, Australia.[2]
Formed by the confluence of the Smith and Sarahana Creeks, the river rises east of Childers and flows in an easterly direction where it joins the Burrum River, south of . Not far from its junction with the Isis River, the Burrum and the Gregory River form a confluence and empty into the Coral Sea at Burrum Heads. The river descends over its 27km (17miles) course.[1]
The drainage sub-basin occupies an area of 526km2.[3]
South of Childers, the river is crossed by the Bruce Highway via the Isis River Bridge.[4]
The river was named by its European discoverers, two colonial surveyors who likened it to the River Isis in Oxfordshire, England.[5] Other features such as the Isis Highway and the Isis Shire draw their name from the river.