Phillips River
Its headwaters rise on the sandplains below Mount Madden and flow in a southerly direction, crossing the South Coast Highway approximately 20 kilometres (12Â mi) west of Ravensthorpe, entering the Fitzgerald River National Park and veering eastward to follow a fault-line in the quartzite rocks around the eastern end of the Barren Range.The entire catchment lies within the Fitzgerald River Biosphere.The river was named by John Septimus Roe, who made the first recorded sighting of the river in 1848, after his son in law, Samuel Pole Phillips.A de facto town, known initially as Phillips River, sprang up.This article related to a river in Western Australia is a stub.