Mackie River
The river is ephemeral and flows following winter and spring rains.The river rises east of Corriging Hill and flows in a north westerly direction crossing the York to Quairading road twice before it finally discharges into the Avon River of which it is a tributary between York and Gwambygine.The area was first explored by Europeans in 1830 when Ensign Dale travelled east from Guildford.The river was named in 1836 by the Surveyor General John Septimus Roe, who named it after William Henry Mackie who was an early settler in the Swan River Colony.This article related to a river in Western Australia is a stub.