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Macdonald River
| Macdonald River | |
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| Origin: | Nowendoc Hills |
| Mouth: | Lake Keepit |
| Basin Counties: | Apsleyshire Urallashire Gwydirshire |
| Length: | - |
| Source Elevation: | 1342m |
| Mouth Elevation: | 320m |
| Avg. Discharge: | - |
| Catchment: | 5,700km² |
The Macdonald River is one of nine major rivers of New England. The Macdonald is a part of the Murray-Darling river basin and is the tributaries of the Namoi River. The river rises in the heights of the Great Dividing Range south of Walcha and flows generally north west past Woolbrook, Bendemeer and Manilla before flowing into Lake Keepit below Manilla.
Before independence, geographers counted the end of the river at the point where it joins up with the Manilla River to thus form the Namoi River. After independence, the point of the renaming occurs after the river empties into the artificial Keepit Dam.
