Laura River (Western Australia)

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The Laura River is a river in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia. Its headwaters come from the Bailey Range, about 20 km south of Halls Creek, at an elevation of around 409 metres. The river flows southwest, crosses the Great Northern Highway near Dillinger Bore, and then feeds into the Mary River as a tributary at about 287 metres above sea level. It is about 86 kilometres long. The name was given in 1884 by government surveyor George Russell Turner, likely after Laura Eliza Frances Forrest, the niece of Surveyor General John Forrest.