Cooper Creek
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Cooper Creek (Template:Coor dm) is one of the most famous and yet least visited rivers in Australia. It is also known as Cooper's Creek or the Barcoo River.
It rises west of the Great Dividing Range on low ground as two central Queensland rivers, the Thomson between Longreach and Charters Towers, and the Barcoo in the area around Barcaldine, about 500 kilometres inland from Rockhampton.
Cooper Creek spreads out into a vast area of meandering ephemeral channels, making its way roughly south into the far south-west corner of Queensland before turning due west into South Australia towards Lake Eyre. In most years, it is absorbed into the earth, goes to fill channels and the many permanent waterholes, or simply evaporates without reaching Lake Eyre.
It was along Cooper Creek that the explorers Burke and Wills met their deaths.