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Cliffdale Creek

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Cliffdale Creek is a creek in Queensland, Australia. The headwaters of the creek rise at the eastern end of China Wall on the edge of the Barkly Tableland close to the border of the Northern Territory. The creek flows north easterly direction through the mostly uninhabited Gulf Country and eventually discharges into Elizabeth Creek, which in turn lows into the Gulf of Carpentaria near Mornington Island. The catchment area of the creek occupies an 6,209 square kilometres (2, 397 sq mi), of which an area of 388 square kilometres (150 sq mi) is composed of estuarine wetlands.

Flows through: Australia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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