Alligator River

The name Alligator River may refer to any of several watercourses:

In Australia
  • Alligator Rivers are three rivers in and near Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory
    • East Alligator River
    • West Alligator River and
    • South Alligator River
In the United States of America
  • Alligator River (North Carolina)
  • Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina

Famous quotes containing the words alligator and/or river:

    “Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the folk-lore
    Of each of the senses; call it, again and again,
    The river that flows nowhere, like a sea.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)