Fitzgerald River
Surveyor General John Septimus Roe named the river during expeditions in the area in 1848 after the governor of Western Australia of the day, Charles Fitzgerald.Once the river enters the national park it is flowing through unspoilt bush and has cut magnificent gorges into the plateau of spongolite.[5] The inlet, a very shallow estuary,[6] has some fringing vegetation and is wave dominated.The inlet, surrounding marshes and lower portion of the river are a DIWA-listed wetland.The area is a drought refuge for the chestnut teal and is a good example of a naturally saline river with an undisturbed coastal lagoon.