| Lyons | |||||||||||||||
| Name Other: | Malgaru Mithering | ||||||||||||||
| Name Etymology: | Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons | ||||||||||||||
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| Subdivision Type1: | Country | ||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | State | ||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Western Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Region | ||||||||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Gascoyne | ||||||||||||||
| Length: | 561km (349miles) | ||||||||||||||
| Discharge1 Location: | mouth | ||||||||||||||
| Discharge1 Avg: | 460600m3/s | ||||||||||||||
| Source1: | Teano Range | ||||||||||||||
| Source1 Location: | below Staten Hill | ||||||||||||||
| Source1 Coordinates: | -24.445°N 117.5986°W | ||||||||||||||
| Source1 Elevation: | 535m (1,755feet) | ||||||||||||||
| Mouth: | confluence with the Gascoyne River | ||||||||||||||
| Mouth Location: | Jimba Jimba | ||||||||||||||
| Mouth Coordinates: | -25.0419°N 115.0769°W | ||||||||||||||
| Mouth Elevation: | 137m (449feet) | ||||||||||||||
| River System: | Gascoyne River catchment | ||||||||||||||
| Tributaries Left: | Calbrajacka Creek, Onslow Creek, Edmund River, Frederick River | ||||||||||||||
| Tributaries Right: | Koorabooka Creek | ||||||||||||||
| Custom Label: | National park | ||||||||||||||
| Custom Data: | Kennedy Range National Park | ||||||||||||||
| Extra: | [1] [2] | ||||||||||||||
The Lyons River is a river in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
The headwaters of the Lyons rise just west of the Teano Range and the river flows generally south-west, joined by 36 tributaries including the Edmund River, Frederick River, Onslow Creek, Gifford Creek, Koorabooka Creek and Ulura Creek. The Lyons reaches its confluence with the Gascoyne River near the township of Gascoyne Junction near the southern end of the Kennedy Range. The river descends over its 561km (349miles) course.[1]
Several permanent pools of water exist along the river including Cattle Pool, Windarrie Pool and Bubbawonnara Pool.
The Lyons River is known as Mithering by the local Aboriginal Australians, the Malgaru. The first European to come upon the river was explorer Francis Gregory in 1858.[3] He named the river after the naval hero Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons.