{"id":125182,"date":"2026-09-19T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=125182"},"modified":"2026-09-19T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T09:02:43","slug":"fitzroy-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fitzroy-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitzroy River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Fitzroy River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fitzroy River, home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles, has been recently approved to host rowing and canoeing at the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Fitzroy River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a major river located in <\/span><b>Queensland, Australia.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>formed by the confluence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the <\/span><b>Dawson and Mackenzie rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the slopes of the <\/span><b>Great Dividing Range.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The united stream flows northeast across the Broadsound Range and then southeast through distributaries to <\/span><b>enter Keppel Bay of the Coral Sea of the Pacific Ocean <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after a course of <\/span><b>480 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its catchment area with its <\/span><b>main tributary,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>160-km Margaret River,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is 142,000 sq.km.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river flows through different types of land. It passes through farming areas, towns, and natural landscapes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>main city<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along the river is <\/span><b>Rockhampton<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is an important centre for the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fitzroy is<\/span><b> navigable from Port Alma, at the mouth<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 56 km <\/span><b>upstream to Rockhampton. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/sports\/others\/fitzroy-river-in-rockhampton-500-saltwater-crocodiles-gets-brisbane-olympics-2032-venue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>OUT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitzroy River is a major river located in Queensland, Australia. Read more about Fitzroy River, Country, Course, City, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10363],"class_list":["post-125182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-fitzroy-river","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125234,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125182\/revisions\/125234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}