Fortescue River
The river then runs north-west then west crossing the Great Northern Highway again, north of the Auski Roadhouse.The river continues to head west crossing Highway 1 at the Fortescue Roadhouse (21°17′44.32″S 116°08′17.52″E / 21.2956444°S 116.1382000°E / -21.2956444; 116.1382000) and discharges into the Indian Ocean at Mardie Station about 40 km south-west of Dampier.A colony of mangroves use the estuary as habitat and occupy an area of 1.2 square kilometres (0.5 sq mi).The river was named in 1861 during an expedition by the explorer and surveyor Francis Thomas Gregory, after Chichester Fortescue, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.[12] A 69-metre (226 ft) bridge crossing the river near the station was constructed in the late 1920s to service the cattle industry.
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