Barcoo River

The Barcoo River in western Queensland, Australia rises on the northern slopes of the Warrego Range, flows in a south westerly direction and unites with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek. The first European to see the river was Thomas Mitchell in 1846, who named it Victoria River, believing it to be the same river as that named Victoria River by J C Wickham in 1839. It was renamed by Edmund Kennedy after a name supplied by local Aborigines.