The Mary River is a river of the south-east of the Queensland in Australia. The river takes its source with Booroobin inside the area of the Sunshine Coast in the west of Caloundra. The river initially starts to run towards north, passes by the towns of Kenilworth, Gympie, Tiaro and Maryborough before going to throw itself in the Strait of Great Sandy, an arm of the sea enters the continent and the island Fraser close to the city River Heads, to 17 km in the south of Hervey Bay. The principal affluents of the river are " Obi Obi Creek" , " Yabba Creek" , " Wide Bay Creek" and " Susan River".

The Tortoise Mary To rivet it ( Elusor macrurus ), a threatened species, lives in the river. Other marine animals live in the river in particular the Dipneuste of Australia ( Neoceratodus forsteri ) and the Morue Mary River ( Maccullochella peelii mariensis ), another threatened species.

The river was called Moocooboola by the local aboriginals, the " Kabi Kabi". It was called the " Wide Bay River" (the river of large the baie") by the first European colonists. Its name was changed into Mary River in 1847 (before the separation of Queensland of with the News-Wales-of-South) by Charles Augustus FitzRoy, then governor of the Wales News of the South, which gave him the name of his wife, Lady Mary Lennox.

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