Cooper Creek
Key Waypoints
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0 km(-737 km)
Torrens Creek Source
Source is somewhere up in White Mountain Nature Reserve.
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73 km(-664 km)
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371 km(-366 km)
Muttaburra
Small town with a few amenities. The full dinosaur replica of Muttaburrasaurus was built to honor its discovery here.
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483 km(-254 km)
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637 km(-100 km)
Stonehenge
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697 km(-40 km)
Jundah
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737 km(0 km)
Cooper Creek
The confluence of the Thomson and Barcoo Rivers form Cooper Creek.
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772 km(34 km)
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1,270 km(532 km)
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1,908 km(1,171 km)
Kati Thanda / Lake Eyre
River Map
Key towns along the river are shown below.
- Torrens Creek
- Muttaburra
- Longreach
- Stonehenge
- Jundah
- Windorah
- Innamincka
- Kati Thanda / Lake Eyre (Nth)
- Kati Thanda / Lake Eyre (Sth)
Distance Table
The distances were calculated by manually digitising the river path from Bing aerial images in QGIS (WGS 84 / UTM Zone 55S).
Distances (KM) | Source |
Torrens Ck |
Muttaburra |
Longreach |
Stonehenge |
Jundah |
Windorah |
Innamincka |
Kati Thanda |
Distances (KM) |
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Source | 0 | 73 | 371 | 483 | 637 | 697 | 772 | 1,270 | 1,908 | Source |
Torrens Ck | 73 | 0 | 298 | 410 | 564 | 624 | 698 | 1,196 | 1,835 | Torrens Ck |
Muttaburra | 371 | 298 | 0 | 112 | 266 | 326 | 400 | 898 | 1,537 | Muttaburra |
Longreach | 483 | 410 | 112 | 0 | 154 | 214 | 288 | 787 | 1,425 | Longreach |
Stonehenge | 637 | 564 | 266 | 154 | 0 | 60 | 135 | 633 | 1,271 | Stonehenge |
Jundah | 697 | 624 | 326 | 214 | 60 | 0 | 75 | 573 | 1,211 | Jundah |
Windorah | 772 | 698 | 400 | 288 | 135 | 75 | 0 | 498 | 1,137 | Windorah |
Innamincka | 1,270 | 1,196 | 898 | 787 | 633 | 573 | 498 | 0 | 639 | Innamincka |
Kati Thanda | 1,908 | 1,835 | 1,537 | 1,425 | 1,271 | 1,211 | 1,137 | 639 | 0 | Kati Thanda |
Distances (KM) | Source |
Torrens Ck |
Muttaburra |
Longreach |
Stonehenge |
Jundah |
Windorah |
Innamincka |
Kati Thanda |
Distances (KM) |
Flow Analysis
Cornish Creek
Just upstream of the start of Thomson River, one of the four main feeder streams.
Just upstream of the start of Thomson River, one of the four main feeder streams.


Longreach


SA-QLD Border
14.6 km upstream of the border
14.6 km upstream of the border

