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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 term Wimmera Mallee has also been used by the federal member for Mallee to describe their electorate, as the electorate covers both regions more-or-less in their entirety. The Mallee is sometimes referred to as an economic region, [19] of the Australian state of Victoria. The district is located entirely within the Victorian government's ...
Mallee Highway commences at the intersection with Dukes Highway just south-east of Tailem Bend in South Australia and runs east as a dual-lane, single-carriageway road, through cereal-growing farmland at the southern end of the Murray Mallee to Pinnaroo near the border with Victoria, where it crosses the Ngarkat and Browns Well Highways.
The Murray-Sunset National Park is the second largest national park in Victoria, Australia, located in the Mallee district in the northwestern corner of the state, bordering South Australia. The 633,000-hectare (1,560,000-acre) national park is situated approximately 440 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Melbourne and was proclaimed in 1991. [2]
Murray Darling Depression bioregion – including parts of the Murray Mallee, Lowan Mallee, and Wimmera sub-bioregions; Naracoorte Coastal Plain bioregion – including parts of the Glenelg Plain sub-bioregion; NSW South Western Slopes bioregion – including parts of the Lower Slopes sub-bioregion
Lake Eyre basin – QLD/SA/NT/NSW; Murray–Darling basin – NSW/ACT/VIC/QLD/SA; Northern Australia – NT/QLD/part of WA; The Nullarbor – SA/WA; Outback – mainly NT and WA, but all territories except ACT and TAS; Southern Australia – TAS/VIC/SA, sometimes including NSW and WA; Sunraysia – a portion of NSW and VIC
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.