Has its headwaters between the road intersection of Glowworm Tunnel Road and Firetrail No. 5. It flows south, south west for 1.2km into Carne Creek. Named by Michael Keats on his Bush Club walk, 16th February 2007 after Joseph Edmund Carne (1855-1922), a brilliant geologist, Curator of the Mining and Geological Museum and Government Geologist in 1916.