King River (Great Southern, Western Australia)
The river rises east of the town of Redmond and then flows for approximately 27 kilometres (17Â mi) and along with the Kalgan River drains into Oyster Harbour and finally King George Sound north east of Albany.[3] The river was named after an early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts, Phillip Parker King, by Thomas Braidwood Wilson while exploring the region in December 1829.[6] The Lower King River Bridge was constructed in 1898 and washed away during a storm in 1900.[5] In January 2019 the Upper King Bridge was burned by a deliberately lit fire[7] causing A$300,000 in damage.Media related to King River (Great Southern, Western Australia) at Wikimedia Commons