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The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.
The Murray. Canberra: Murray–Darling Basin Commission. ISBN 1-875209-05-0. Berndt, Ronald M. & Catherine H. (1993). A World That Was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia. Vancouver, Canada: UBC Press. ISBN 0-7748-0478-5. Jennings, J.T. (2009). Natural History of the Riverland and Murraylands. Adelaide: Royal Society ...
The Darling River (Paakantyi: Baaka or Barka) is the third-longest river in Australia, measuring 1,472 kilometres (915 mi) from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth. Including its longest contiguous tributaries, it is 2,844 km (1,767 mi) long, making it the longest river system in Australia ...
Murray River: Murray-Darling: 2,375 1,476 [1] 2 Murrumbidgee River: Murray-Darling: 1,485 923 3 ... South Australia: Murray River: 700 435 Tasmania: South Esk River ...
This is a table of river distances of various locations along the Murray, Darling and Namoi Rivers upstream from Hay, New South Wales.. Note that river distances are by their nature imprecise, will always be greater than straight line distances, and frequently greater than road distances.
The Murray cod is an important part of Australia's vertebrate wildlife—as an apex predator in the Murray-Darling River system—and also significant in Australia's human culture. [4] The Murray cod is the largest exclusively freshwater fish in Australia, and one of the largest in the world.
Murray Darling is a wine region and Australian Geographical Indication which spans the Murray River and its confluence with the Darling River in northwestern Victoria and southwestern New South Wales. [2] It was registered as a protected name on 16 June 1997. [3] Murray Darling is the second-largest wine region in Australia.
The flood occurred due to higher than average rainfalls in Western Queensland and heavy rains in the proceeding three months in the Murray-Darling basin. [2] Flood waters moved down the Murray and Darling rivers for seven months and peaked between 11 and 14 August at Merbein in Victoria [3] and 12.3 metres (40 ft) at Morgan in South Australia. [2]