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The Murray Mallee is a grain-growing and sheep-farming area in the east of the Australian state of South Australia.The name is not formally designated but is widely used to refer to an area of approximately 20,000 square kilometres (7700 square miles) bounded by the River Murray [note 1] on its northern and western sides, the Victorian border on its eastern side, and up to about 50 kilometres ...
The Murray itself is also a major attraction, many people coming to the district for fishing and to stay on houseboats. The many Mallee national parks - Wyperfeld, Hattah-Kulkyne and Murray Sunset National Parks, wilderness parks, state forests, and other parks over the river are also major drawcards.
Wellington East (also historically known as East Wellington or part of Wellington) is a locality in the Murray Mallee on the east (left bank) of the Murray River in South Australia where the river opens into Lake Alexandrina, the largest of the lakes at the end of the Murray-Darling system.
The school also takes part in SAPSASA with the Murray Mallee team in sports such as Australian rules football, cricket, athletics, swimming, golf, softball, tennis, netball and basketball. The school has four classrooms, a GP room, an art and technical centre, a home economics centre, an FM radio station, a swimming pool, two ovals, outdoor ...
Murray and Mallee consists of land in east of the state extending from the continental coastline in the south to the borders with New South Wales and Victoria in the east. It is also bounded by the Limestone Coast to its south and by the following regions to its west and north - Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island, the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Light ...
The Southern Mallee District Council is a local government area in the Murray and Mallee region of South Australia.The council offices are in Pinnaroo and Lameroo. [4] It was established on 23 January 1997 when the District Council of Lameroo and District Council of Pinnaroo agreed to merge. [2]
Geranium is a town and locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia near the Mallee Highway. [1] At the 2006 census, Geranium had a population of 240. [5] It was surveyed in 1910 as the town supporting a station on the Pinnaroo railway line. [1] The name is derived from a native plant prolific in the area. [citation needed]
The Murray Darling Depression , also known as the Murray-Darling woodlands and mallee, is a 19,717,651 HA biogeographic region and an ecoregion in southeastern Australia consisting of a wooded plain through which flow two of Australia's biggest rivers, the Murray and the Darling.