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词条 Lunenburgh River
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| name = Lunenburgh River
| image =
| image_caption =
| source1_location = Worsley, Western Australia
| mouth_location = Brunswick River[1]
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Australia
| length = {{convert|16|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}[2]
| source1_elevation = {{convert|187|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}[1]
| mouth_elevation = {{convert|74.8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| discharge1_avg = {{convert|11.6|GL/yr|usgal/yr|abbr=on}}[2]
| basin_size = {{convert|56.3|km2|sqmi|0}}[2]
| tributaries_left = Otho River, Sophia River
| tributaries_right =
}}

The Lunenburgh River is a perennial river in the South West region of Western Australia.[2]

The river rises in the Darling Range near the abandoned timber mill town of Worsley, then flows north-west discharging into the Brunswick River at Beela. The river's catchment of {{convert|56.3|km2|sqmi|0}} receives a mean annual rainfall of {{convert|1004|mm|in|0}} with mean annual runoff of {{convert|206|mm|in|0}}. Vegetation is 100% jarrah-marri forest (severely affected by dieback disease), of which 15% is cleared. Land use is part state forest reserve, part private timber leases, with a few small mixed farms. The Lunenburgh's two tributaries are the Otho and the Sophia.[2][1]

The river was named in March 1830 by Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling after Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg and King of Hanover, the fifth son and eighth child of George III. Over a period of 5 days in December 1813, while in command of HMS Brazen, Captain Stirling had transported the Duke and his entourage to Wijk aan Zee in Holland.[3] In the period since 1813, Prince Ernest Augustus had greatly increased in importance. In 1813 he was fifth in line to the throne. Upon William IV's succession as King in June 1830, he was second in line to the throne after Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent. Following exploration of the Brunswick River and its tributaries by boat, Stirling named a number for Prince Ernest Augustus: the Brunswick; the Ernest; the Augustus; the Frederic (after his wife Frederica); the Otho (after Otho I, the first Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg); and the Sophia and the Matilda (after Prince Ernest's sister Princess Sophia Matilda).[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://maps.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=195900&cmd=sp&place=Lunenburgh%20River&file=Lunenburgh_River%2Ehtm|title=Bonzle Digital Atlas - Map of Lunenburgh River, WA|year= 2008|accessdate= 16 December 2008}}
2. ^{{cite book | last1 = Braccia | first1 = Michael | last2 = Durrant | first2 = Jacqueline | title = Surface water hydrology of the lower Collie catchment | volume = Report no. HY35 | work = Surface water hydrology series | publisher = Department of Water, Government of Western Australia | date = April 2011 | location = Perth, Western Australia | url = http://www.water.wa.gov.au/PublicationStore/first/98010.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327065633/http://www.water.wa.gov.au/PublicationStore/first/98010.pdf|archivedate= 2012-03-27 | accessdate = 24 Oct 2013 | isbn = 978-1-921789-73-1}}
3. ^{{cite book | last1 = Statham-Drew | first1 = Pamela | title = James Stirling: admiral and founding governor of Western Australia | publisher = University of Western Australia Press | year = 2003 | location = Crawley, Western Australia | pages = 27 | isbn = 1876268948}}
4. ^{{LandInfo WA|r|B|16 October 2013}}
{{coord|33|14|05|S|115|54|50|E|type:river_region:AU-WA|display=title}}{{Rivers of Western Australia}}

2 : Rivers of Western Australia|South West (Western Australia)

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