Coen River
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The Coen River is situated in the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland (Australia) in .
The present (1996) Pennefather River (renamed 1894) was originally called the Coen river by Jan Carstenszoon in honour of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. The present Archer River was probably confused by Matthew Flinders with Carstenszoon's Coen River. The Coen River is a tributary of the Archer river and was for a time known as the South Coen River.
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- The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 by J. E. Heeres, 1894
- Queensland Placenames+
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