What is Mary River (Northern Territory)?
The '''Mary River''' flows in the [[Northern Territory]] of [[Australia]] and is a site of the [[Mary River National Park]]. Its lower reaches form part of the Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains. It was named in 1862 by the explorer [[John McDouall Stuart]]. He named it after the daughter of his employer, James Chambers.<ref name=bailey>{{cite book | last =Bailey | first = John| title =Mr. Stuart's Track: the forgotten life of Australia's greatest explorer | publisher =Macmillan | date =2006 | location =[[Sydney]], Australia | page =13 | isbn =9781405037303 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commons cat}} *[http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/parks/find/maryriver.html Northern Territory Government entry on the Mary River National Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070908042716/http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/parks/find/maryriver.html |date=2007-09-08 }} *[http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/parks/find/pdf/mary_river_np_2007.pdf pdf maps of river and environs]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:Rivers of the Northern Territory]]