Davey River
{{Short description|River in Tasmania, Australia}}
{{Use Australian English|date=March 2014}}
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| mouth = Southern Ocean
| mouth_location = Port Davey
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The Davey River is a perennial river located in the south-west region of Tasmania, Australia.
Course and features
The Davey River rises on the western slopes of the Frankland Range, below Coronation Peak, and flows generally south by west through the Southwest National Park, joined by ten tributaries including the Lora, Frankland, Hardwood, Crossing, and De Witt rivers. The river reaches its mouth in Payne Bay, an inner part of Port Davey, and empties out into the Southern Ocean. The river descends {{convert|228|m}} over its {{convert|53|km|adj=on}} course.
A section of the lower Davey River gorge is known as Hells Gates,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60095581 |title=HELL'S GATES, DAVEY RIVER TASMANIA. |newspaper=Illustrated Australian News (Melbourne, Vic. : 1876 - 1889) |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=20 March 1878 |access-date=3 March 2014 |page=42 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63334882 |title=HELL'S GATES, DAVEY RIVER, TASMANIA. |newspaper=Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872) |location=NSW |date=20 April 1878 |access-date=3 March 2014 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} - providing confusion with the entry to Macquarie Harbour which has an entrance by the same name - Hells Gates.
See also
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References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book |last=Binks |first=C.J. |year=1989 |title=Explorers of Western Tasmania |location=Launceston, Tas. |publisher=Mary Fisher Bookshop |isbn=0-7316-7300-X}}
- Gee, H and Fenton, J. (Eds) (1978) The South West Book - A Tasmanian Wilderness Melbourne, Australian Conservation Foundation. {{ISBN|0-85802-054-8}}
- Neilson, D. (1975) South West Tasmania - A land of the Wild. Adelaide. Rigby. {{ISBN|0-85179-874-8}}
- Waterman, Peter (editor) (1981) Davey River catchment Sandy Bay, Tas. : Steering Committee, South West Tasmania Resources Survey. Working paper (South West Tasmania Resources Survey) ; no. 20. {{ISBN|0-7246-1009-X}}
External links
- [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/13400/ Palaeozoic Rocks of the Davey River, South-West Tasmania]
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