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Balranald
Balranald is a town within the Local government in Australia, local government area of Balranald Shire, in the Murray (New South Wales), Murray region of far south-western New South Wales, Australia. The town of Balranald is located where the Sturt Highway crosses the Murrumbidgee River in a remote, semi-desert area. Although it is part of New South Wales, Balranald receives Victoria (Australia), Victorian television stations, with a range of Sydney and Melbourne newspapers available. Balranald was featured heavily in 2010–2015 Australian tourism ads, displaying the natural flora of the region with over 30 subspecies of shrubs native to Balranald and its surrounds. History Balranald is located in Mathi Mathi people, Mutthi Mutthi traditional country. The area has a long history before non-indigenous settlement and a strong Indigenous Australians, indigenous culture continues to this day. Township beginnings In 1848 George James MacDonald (Commissioner of Crown Lands), Geor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caira County, New South Wales
Caira County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It contains the city of Balranald, New South Wales, Balranald. It is located between where the Murrumbidgee River joins the Murray River to where the Lachlan River joins the Murrumbidgee, containing much of the western Lowbidgee Floodplain. The name "Caira" is believed to derive from a local Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal word. Parishes within this county A full list of parishes found within this county; their current Local government in Australia, LGA and mapping coordinates to the approximate centre of each location is as follows: References {{Reflist Counties of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balranald Shire
Balranald Shire is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Riverina area of western New South Wales, Australia on the Sturt Highway. It is the location of World Heritage listed Mungo National Park. It includes the towns of Balranald, New South Wales, Balranald and Euston, New South Wales, Euston. Other localities in the Shire include Kyalite, New South Wales, Kyalite, Hatfield, New South Wales, Hatfield, Penarie, New South Wales, Penarie, Clare, New South Wales, Clare and Oxley, New South Wales, Oxley. As of 29 January 2020, the Balranald Shire Council Mayor and elected members were dismissed by NSW local government minister Shelley Hancock, after the recommendations of the report of commissioner Roslyn McCulloch. Mike Colreavy has been appointed the administrator until local council elections in 2024. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sturt Highway
Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions along the route. Initially an amalgam of trunk routes, the Sturt Highway was proclaimed a state highway in NSW in 1933. In 1955, the route was allocated a National Route number (20). It was included in the National Highway system in 1992, forming the Sydney-Adelaide Link. Sturt Highway is allocated as route A20 for its entire length, the majority of which is a single carriageway, and freeway standard and 6-lane arterial road standard towards its western terminus in Gawler. Route The highway is the shortest, highest-standard route between Sydney and Adelaide. It runs generally east–west, roughly aligned to the southern bank of the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales. Following that river's confluence with the Murray River, it is then roughly aligned to the Mur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murrumbidgee River
The Murrumbidgee River () is a major tributary of the Murray River within the Murray–Darling basin and the second longest river in Australia. It flows through the Australian state of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, descending over , generally in a west-northwesterly direction from the foot of Peppercorn Hill in the Fiery Range of the Snowy Mountains towards its confluence with the Murray River near Boundary Bend, Victoria, Boundary Bend. The word ''Murrumbidgee'' or ''Marrambidya'' means "big water" in the Wiradjuri language, one of the local Australian Aboriginal languages. The river itself flows through several traditional Aboriginal Australian lands, home to various Aboriginal peoples. In the Australian Capital Territory, the river is bordered by a narrow strip of land on each side; these are managed as the Murrumbidgee River Corridor (MRC). This land includes many nature reserves, eight recreation reserves, a European heritage conservation zone and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euston, New South Wales
Euston is a small town on the banks of the Murray River, in far south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is in the Balranald Shire. The twin town of Robinvale is on the other side of the river, in the state of Victoria. At the , Euston had a population of 822 people. Until the irrigation development at Robinvale, Euston was the main town in the area. A post office opened on 1 May 1852, closed in 1853, then reopened in 1856. History For tens of thousands of years before European colonisation, a number of Aboriginal clans inhabited the area around Euston, principally the Kureinji people. There are many remnants of Aboriginal occupation and use of the land, including scar trees, fire hearths, flaked stone artefacts, burial sites and middens. In 1830, the exploring party led by Charles Sturt became the first Europeans to traverse the general country. In 1876, the settlement at Euston was described in the following terms: Euston is a crossing-place for sheep and cattle. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray (New South Wales)
The Murray is an agricultural region that is situated in southwest New South Wales, Australia. The region runs along the Murray River which marks the Victoria border. The Murray stretches from the Snowy Mountains in the east to the South Australia border in the west. The regions biggest city is Albury.{{Citation needed, date=June 2025 Region The regions consists of 9 local government areas: * Albury * Balranald Shire * Berrigan Shire * Edward River Council * Federation Council * Greater Hume Shire * Murray River Council * Wentworth Shire * Snowy Valleys Council A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or natio ... References Geography of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverina Recorder
The ''Riverina Recorder'', also published as the ''Moulamein Times'' and the ''Riverina Record, Moulamein Times'' was a weekly newspaper published in Balranald, New South Wales, Australia from 1877 to 1965. History The ''Riverina Recorder'' was first published in 1877 and was published weekly until 1 April 1965, when it ceased publication under this name. During this period it was also known as the ''Riverina recorder, Moulamein times'' and had been previously titled the ''Moulamein Times''. It was distributed across Balrandald, Oxley, Euston, Moulamein and Swan Hill. The paper was incorporated into the ''Swan Hill Guardian.'' This was renamed in 1971 to ''The Guardian'', which is still in publication. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Uist
North Uist (; ) is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Etymology In Donald Munro's ''A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland Called Hybrides'' of 1549, North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist are described as one island of ''Ywst'' (Uist). Starting in the south of this 'island', he described the division between South Uist and Benbecula where "the end heirof the sea enters, and cuts the countrey be ebbing and flowing through it". Further north of Benbecula he described North Uist as "this countrey is called Kenehnache of Ywst, that is in Englishe, the north head of Ywst".''A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland Called Hybrides''; Monro, Donald, 1549 Some have taken the etymology of Uist from Old Norse, meaning "west", much like Westray in Orkney. Another speculated derivation of Uist from Old Norse is ', derived from ' meaning "an abode, dwelling, domicile". A Gaelic etymology is also possible, with ' meaning "Crossings-island" or "Fords-isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hay, New South Wales
Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is the administrative centre of Hay Shire Local government in Australia, local government area and the centre of a prosperous and productive agricultural district on the wide Hay Plains. Located approximately midway between Sydney and Adelaide at the junction of the Sturt Highway, Sturt, Cobb Highway, Cobb and Mid-Western Highways, Hay is an important regional and national transport node. The town itself is built beside the Murrumbidgee River, part of the Murray–Darling Basin, Murray–Darling river system; Australia's largest. The main business district of Hay is situated on the north bank of the river. History Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal communities in the western Riverina were traditionally concentrated in the more habitable river corridors and amongst the reedbeds of the region. The district surrounding Hay was occupied by at least three separate Aboriginal groups at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathi Mathi People
The Muthi Muthi people are an indigenous Australian people whose traditional lands are located in the Northern Riverina and Far West regions of New South Wales. The Muthi Muthi are the traditional owners of Nimmie Caira and the Lowbidgee and share custodial rights for Lake Mungo, Mungo Man and Mungo Lady with the neighbouring Paakantji and Ngiyampaa groups. Language The Mati Mati spoke Madhi Madhi, a Kulinic language, and, according to Barry Blake, one of a subgroup, the Mathi languages, of which Matdhi Madhi is the best known. The subgroup includes the related Watiwati Letjiletji languages. What is distinctive about it compared to the languages spoken by most contiguous peoples is that it lacks monosyllabic nouns. Country The Muthi Muthi lands stretched over an estimated 2,200 sq. m. (.), taking in the Murrumbidgee River in the area of Balranald, with their southwestern boundary on the Murray River. Their western extension ran cloise by to Lake Benanee. Their northern r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis MacCabe
Francis Peter MacCabe (1817 – 27 June 1897) was a surveyor in the colony of New South Wales (later a state of Australia) in the 19th century. He surveyed and mapped the lower reaches of the Murrumbidgee, Darling and Murray Rivers in New South Wales. Early life MacCabe was born in Dublin in 1817. His parents were Dr James and Margaret (née Russell) MacCabe. He trained as a surveyor with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland and migrated to New South Wales in 1841 at the age of 24 on the ship ''Florentia''. Surveying career MacCabe worked with a team of assistants and convict labour surveying the rivers of the Murray Darling Basin between 1848 and 1852, including laying out the town of Balranald in 1849. MacCabe's surveys of these rivers made use of communication with the local Aboriginal Australians, and recorded up to 6–8 native placenames per mile of river. MacCabe was working in the Wollongong area in early 1853 when he met Jane Osborne. They married at St Luke's church a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Farrer
The Division of Farrer is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. It is currently represented by Leader of the Opposition (Australia), Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Leader of the Liberal Party Sussan Ley. It includes the cities of Albury, New South Wales, Albury and Griffith, New South Wales, Griffith. Prior to 2016, it also included the city of Broken Hill. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. The division is located in the far south-western area of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
