The outer Townsville suburb of Black River is named after the river which flows through northern side of the area. The river is named after John Melton Black who was a pastoralist, merchant and a settler of Townsville. The merged streams form the Salt River, a major tributary of the Gila River.

Ī total of 22 species of fish have been found in the river, including the glassfish, Roman nose Goby, Fly-specked hardyhead, Golden Gudgeon, Jungle Perch, Barramundi, oxeye herring, eastern rainbowfish, spotted scat, and Crescent Perch. The Black River is a 114-mile-long (183 km) river that forms southwest of Alpine in Arizonas White Mountains and flows southwest then northwest to meet the White River west of Fort Apache on the White Mountain Apache Tribal Lands. Archeologists have also uncovered many Bronze Age swords and daggers with rivet holes where the handles would have been. The catchment area occupies 1,060 square kilometres (409 sq mi), including 36 square kilometres (14 sq mi) of riverine wetlands and 10.6 square kilometres (4 sq mi) of estuarine wetlands. Rivet holes have been found in Egyptian spearheads dating back to the Naqada culture of between 44 B.C. The river descends 84 metres (276 ft) over its 33-kilometre (21 mi) course. Rivet is the deuteragonist of the 2021 video game, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. The river is crossed by the Bruce Highway near Kulburr and discharges into the Coral Sea between Yabulu and Beach Holm approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) north west of Townsville. The river flows roughly parallel with the Hervey Range Developmental Road past Mount Cataract and Mount Black on the Bohle Plains. The headwaters of the river rise near Ben Lomond East in the Great Dividing Range and flow in a northeasterly direction. The Black River is a river in North Queensland, Australia.

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