The Herbert River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it is named after Robert George Wyndham Herbert (1831–1905), the first Premier of Queensland. William Landsborough was the first European explorer to trace the river's source.
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“Man is all symmetrie,
Full of proportions, one limbe to another,”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“The river knows the way to the sea;
Without a pilot it runs and falls,
Blessing all lands with its charity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)