Ashburton River, an unnavigable stream of Western Australia, rising in the mountains west of the Great Desert, and flowing 400 miles north-westward into Exmouth Gulf. Its lower course was explored by Sholl in 1866, its upper by Giles in 1876.
Ashburton River
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 482
Source scan(s): p. 0501