The Alice River in central Queensland, Australia rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range.

Waters from the Barcoo and Alice Rivers flow towards Lake Eyre in Central Australia, while rivers further east join the Murray-Darling basin and reach the sea in South Australia.

[2] In October 1863, Donald Cameron, his son John, together with James and William Crombie walked sheep from the New England district of New South Wales and grazed them along a 40-mile frontage of the Alice River.

[3] In 1891 the Alice River had a record flood that stopped traffic for a week.

On 20 March 1910 the Alice River flooded all the low-lying country and the railway line was blocked.