Davey River
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Davey River
Is a river in the South West Tasmania. It is within the South West Wilderness, and drains into Payne Bay - the inner part of Port Davey - which lies west of Bathurst Harbour
Its catchment starts in the west of the Frankland Range.
A section of the lower Davey River gorge is known as Hells Gates - providing confusion with the entry to Macquarie Harbour which has an entrance by the same name - Hells Gates.
[edit] Further reading
- Binks, C.J. (1989). Explorers of Western Tasmania. Launceston, Tas.: 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 072461009X
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