Murrumbidgee River



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From its headwaters in the Snowy Mountains, the 1,485-kilometre-long Murrumbidgee River — Australia's second-longest — flows in a generally west-northwest direction towards its confluence with the Murray River near Boundary Bend, draining much of southern New South Wales and all of the Australian Capital Territory, and providing much of the water for irrigated farmland in the Riverina.

Murrumbidgee or Marrambidya means "big water" in the Wiradjuri language,

Sources:
Encyclopedia Britannica: Murrumbidgee River https://www.britannica.com/place/Murrumbidgee-River
Murray-Darling Basin Authority: Murrumbidgee catchment https://www.mdba.gov.au/basin/catchments/southern-basin-catchments/murrumbidgee-catchment
Wikipedia: Murrumbidgee River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murrumbidgee_River

Image: The Murrumbidgee in the Murray-Darling Basin (Bidgee, CC BY 3.0 <>, via Wikimedia Commons)





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