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Encyclopedia of Australia
01-01-1999
Murray River
The Murray River is part of one of the largest river systems in the world and is Australia's most famous river. In sheer volume, the citrus fruits, grapes and vegetables that are produced along the Murray is enormous.
Discovered by Hume and Hovell in 1824, they originally named it the Hume River. When Charles Sturt sailed into the same river in 1830, he renamed it the Murray River after Sir George Murray, an English Statesman, thinking it was a different stream.
The Murray starts at the Snowy Mountains and flows into the sea through Lake Alexandria, south of Adelaide. The river is around 2560 kilometres long and is the only continuously ...