NOTE: This is not the location of the
Gibb River Road crossing over the Pentecost River (see separate nearby Place listing for Pentecost River Crossing), but is further upstream.
The Pentecost River rises in the Durack Range and flows north through
El Questro Station where it joins the
Chamberlain River, then continues north crossing the
Gibb River Road, skirts the eastern edge of
Drysdale River National Park and later discharges into the
west arm of the Cambridge Gulf.
Tributaries of the Pentecost include the
Chamberlain River, Salmond River, Gap Creek and Five Mile Creek. The Chamberlain and Salmond are both longer than the Pentecost.
The river is named after surveyor and geologist John Pentecost, who surveyed the river in 1882 on an expedition led by Michael Durack.