Sophia River is a minor feeder into Lake Mackintosh

Lake Mackintosh

Lake Mackintosh is a long lake running north-south past Mount Farrell, adjacent to the town of Tullah. It dams the Mackintosh River and Sophia River, then feeds Mackintosh Power Station through into Lake Rosebery. The lake was created in the 1980s and the main basin of the lake was originally a...

 and the supply for the Mackintosh Power Station on the West Coast

West Coast, Tasmania

The West Coast of Tasmania is the part of the state that is strongly associated with wilderness, mining and tourism, rough country and isolation...

 of the Australian State of Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

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It joins the lake on the east side, near the south end. The Sophia Tunnel feeder from Murchison Dam has its outlet near Sophia River. There is also a Sophia Adit, a small tunnel for maintaining the Sophia Tunnel.

Nearby Sophia Peak and Sophia Street in the town of Tullah

Tullah, Tasmania

Tullah is a town in the northern part of the West Coast Range, on the west coast of Tasmania, about 111 km south of Burnie. The town has a population of roughly 270 people. At the 2006 census, Tullah had a population of 195....

 share names with it, as does Sophia Point, near the town of Strahan

Strahan, Tasmania

-See also:* Convicts on the West Coast of Tasmania* Macquarie Harbour* Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania* West Coast Piners-Further reading:* *...

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It is also the name of the 1:100,000 map of the Cradle Mountain, Lake Mackintosh, Lake Lea and Rosebery area of western Tasmania.