Place Names Register Extract
Moyle River
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Print Extract | Search Again| Name | Moyle River |
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| Type Designation | Stream |
| Place Id | 15905 |
| Place Type | Feature |
| Status | Recorded |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -13° 58' S (Decimal degrees -13.976) | |
| Longitude: 129° 44' E (Decimal degrees 129.7441) | |
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| Locality / Suburb | |
| Nemarluk | |
| Thamarrurr | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Victoria-Daly Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | Named in the 1930s after a name given to an aboriginal tribal group which lived in the area. The LANDS Pastoral index series 1/800 and 3/800 do not show any name for the River feature. The Daly River Aboriginal Reserve was declared over 3000 sq Miles in 1923, north of Bradshaw Station and a Catholic Mission established at Daly River and Port Keats in the mid 1930s. Tindale in "Aboriginal Tribes of Australia", 1974 writes:- "Maringar ..Moil (not a tribal name = "plain" or "plain country"), Moyle (name as given to river by Europeans)." |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
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| (None Found) |