Place names

his sparkling location ID began as the name of a as a salute to the area.) Originally the river was named Muellers Creek (not even a river!) back in 1868 by explorer John McKinlay. The Mueller who was supposed to be immortalised in this grand way was botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. But he lost his place on the map when the river was ‘re-discovered’ by William Landsborough, who renamed the waterway Diamantina, a£ er the wife of Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the first governor of Queensland.