Walsh River


The Walsh River is a river located on the Cape [York Peninsula] of Far [North Queensland], Australia.
The headwaters of the river rise in the locality of Watsonville on the Atherton Tableland approximately north of Herberton and then flow in a westerly direction then turning north past Mount Masterton and then veering west again near Tabacum. It crosses and then runs parallel to the Mareeba-Dimbulah Road then under Mount White and past Fumar and Dimbulah and through the Featherstone Range. It then flows to the north west crossing the Burke [Developmental Road] and eventually discharges into the Mitchell River of which it is a tributary on the boundary of the localities of Gamboola and Wrotham.
The drainage sub-basin occupies an area of, and is part of the much larger Mitchell River catchment that has a total area of.