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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 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.
The Mallee is a sub-region of Loddon Mallee covering the most north-westerly part of Victoria, Australia and is bounded by the South Australian and New South Wales borders. Definitions of the south-eastern boundary vary, however, all are based on the historic Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts. These trees dominate the surviving native ...
The Murraylands region takes its name from the River Murray, which runs through it and the Riverland, to its north, for 200 kilometres (120 miles) The South Australian Railways constructed 707 kilometres (439 miles) of lightly built railway lines, mainly in the 1910s, to encourage agricultural development throughout the Murraylands and what is now designated as the Riverland
The Riverland is a region of South Australia.It covers an area of 9,386 square kilometres (3,624 sq mi) along the River Murray [note 1] from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria downstream to Blanchetown.
Land in the Murray Mallee region was first taken up on pastoral lease in the late 1850s. For the first twenty years there were several lessees; the area had limited grazing during this time. After a well was dug at Lameroo, then known as Wow Wow Plain, in 1884, settlement on Wow Wow Plain became permanent.
The school also takes part in the South Australian Public Schools Amateur Sports Association (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 ...
Scotia Sanctuary is a 650 km 2 (250 sq mi) nature reserve in the south-western plains of New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with South Australia.It is located in the Murray Mallee subregion of the Murray-Darling Depression Bioregion, 150 km (93 mi) south of the city of Broken Hill.