Cooper Creek

/ ˈkuːpə /

noun

1. an intermittent river in E central Australia, in the Channel Country: rises in central Queensland and flows generally southwest, reaching Lake Eyre only during wet-year floods; scene of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861; the surrounding basin provides cattle pastures after the floods subside. Total length: 1420 km (880 miles)

Example Sentences

The animal’s English name — “Southern Titan of the Cooper,” or Cooper — is a homage to the freshwater Cooper Creek close to where it was found.

From Washington Post

The journey began fortuitously for Mackenzie in 2004, when her son, Sandy, found a rock reminiscent of a fossil on their family property near Cooper Creek.

From Washington Post

The team of researchers had nicknamed the dinosaur Cooper while working on it, after the nearby Cooper Creek where it was found.

From BBC

All of the vendors I spoke to said they do really believe there’s something extremely fishy about the Epstein suicide; Sandra of Cooper Creek Designs wrote, “I believe the popular vote is that he really didn’t kill himself.”

From Slate

The two brothers wanted to grow livestock in the country's dry centre, supported by Queensland's channel country rivers - the Georgina, the Diamantina and Cooper Creek.

From BBC