Mackenzie

• Location: Australia, Canada

1. Australia (Queensland): a seasonal river explored in 1844 by the German Ludwig Leichhardt (1813–48), who named it after Sir Evan Mackenzie, one of the early settlers.
2. Canada (Northwest Territories): a river named after Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c.1755–1820), a Scottish fur trader who explored the north-west of North America in 1789–93, travelling down the river in 1789. His aim was to find a river route to the Pacific, but instead the river emerged into the Arctic Ocean (the Beaufort Sea) and so he gave it the alternative name of the River of Disappointment. The local Dene name was Dehcho 'Big River'.
3. Canada (Northwest Territories); mountains named after Sir Alexander Mackenzie.

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