Murray

Paddle Steamer on the Murray River.

Museums and Galleries of Murray

State:

New South Wales

Average summer day temperature:

30.5°C

Average winter day temperature:

12.7°C

Average annual rainfall:

765.3mm

Average clear days:

111.9

Albury

Average summer day temperature: 30.5°C

Average winter day temperature: 13.7°C

Average annual rainfall: 765.3mm

Average clear days: 111.9

River trade was to prove crucial to the economic development of Australia. It enabled the opening up of Australia's interior and dramatically increased the land given over to primary industries (particularly wool) and the capacity of those properties to transport their goods to the national and international marketplace.

Although the Murray River is a natural geopolitical dividing line, development along the Murray has occurred on both sides of the river, with the Victorian townships of Wodonga (over the river from Albury) having 'sister' status to Albury.

The splendid Victorian-Italianate Albury railway station has the longest platform in NSW.

Balranald

Balranald is on the lower Murrumbidgee River near its junction with the Murray River, and is about 870km from Sydney. In the later part of the 19th century it was a river port for paddle-wheel steamers.

Berrigan

Denilliquin

Finley

Henty

Henty is on the Olympic Way mid-way between Wagga Wagga and Albury in New South Wales. Each year it hosts a uniquely Australian Agribusiness Experience known as the Henty Machinery Field Days, where over 700 companies exhibit their products to over 50 thousand visitors.