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Murrumbidgee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Murrumbidgee , river, c.1,050 mi (1,690 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, Australia, and flowing generally...
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Charles Sturt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...find the source of the Macquarie, he discovered (1828) the Darling River. On a second journey (1829) he explored the Murrumbidgee and found its junction with the Murray, which he followed by boat to its mouth in Lake Alexandrina. He resigned (1833...
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Murray
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...irrigation, the Murray has numerous hydroelectric plants and reservoirs, including Hume Reservoir. The Murray and the Murrumbidgee, a tributary, receive most of the diverted water from the Snowy Mts. Hydroelectric Scheme. The combined Murray-Darling...
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AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...settlers, such names are usually polysyllabic, often with sets of double letters, as in Boggabri , Gunnedah , Indooroopilly , Murrumbidgee , Tantanoola , Wollongong , and Wooloongabba . A number are reduplicative, as in Tilba Tilba , Wagga Wagga , and Woy Woy...
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Riverina
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in the south central part of the state, Riverina is a rich agricultural area with associated processing industries. The Murrumbidgee River runs through the region, and much of the farming depends on irrigation. It has been inhabited by an aboriginal population...
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Wagga Wagga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Wagga Wagga , city (1991 pop. 40,875), New South Wales, SE Australia, on the Murrumbidgee River. It is the center of an agricultural district with food-processing and rubber-goods plants and foundries. Wagga Wagga...
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droughts
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...rivers fed by lakes, rainfall, and snowmelt in areas with more reliable precipitation (the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Murrumbidgee), and the development of large-scale water storage reservoirs (Ataturk Dam, Turkey; Aswan High Dam, Egypt; Bhakra...
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Australia
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
...important river system, and the only one with a permanent, year-round flow, is formed by the Murray, Darling, and Murrumbidgee rivers in the southeast. The Murray River, Australia's largest, rises in the Australian Alps of New South Wales and...
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longest rivers
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...4000 2400 Purus Amazon 3350 2080 Madeira Amazon 3200 1990 Sao Francisco Atlantic Ocean 2900 1800 Australia Murray-Darling Southern Ocean 3750 2830 Darling Murray 3070 1905 Murray Southern Ocean 2575 1600 Murrumbidgee Murray 1690 1050
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palaeohydrology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...was used by Stanley Schumm in his classic study of two generations of palaeochannels (prior and ancestral streams) of the Murrumbidgee on the Riverine Plain of Australia. A third method is to estimate flow discharge and velocity from fluvial sediments and...
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