Barcoo River

/ bɑːˈkuː /

noun

a river in E central Australia, in SW Queensland: joins with the Thomson River to form Cooper Creek

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He is going tomorrow on foot to see if there is water in the waterholes on the road to Barcoo River.

Two of the blacks accompanied us down the river to show us the road to the Barcoo River.

We tried very hard to persuade Wittin to show us all the way to Barcoo River.

Jemmy said his reason for not going to Barcoo River was that the blacks there would kill him if they found him in their country.

The creek was too small to be the Barcoo River, and the ground on both sides of it too high to admit of it being an ana-branch.

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