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Line 105: ==Etymology== The [[Wathaurong]] [[Indigenous Australian]] people named the river ''Waywatcurtan''.<ref name=aiatsis>{{cite book\|title=Native names of hills, rivers, lakes, and other natural features in Victoria.\|url=https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collections/collectors_of_words/smyth/m0053739_a.pdf\|accessdate=29 September 2017}}</ref><ref name=vicnames1>{{cite web\|url=https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=149\|title=Leigh River: Historical Information\|date=5 May 2011\|work=Vicnames\|publisher=[[Government of Victoria (Australia)\|Government of Victoria]]\|accessdate=2 June 2014~~}}{{dead link~~\|~~date~~deadurl=~~September~~yes\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140602194649/https://services.land.vic.gov.au/vicnames/historicalInformation.html?method=edit&id=149\|archivedate=2 ~~2017~~June 2014\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> It is believed that the name Leigh River was given by the surveyor J.H. Wedge who arrived in 1835, probably naming the river after his Tasmanian farm 'Leighlands'.<ref>Lonsdale, Joan "Gateway to the West", Inverleigh Progress Association, 1978</ref>