MURRAY RIVER COUNTRY
AN AUSSIE ODYSSEY
A journey along this winding waterway is an odyssey with many facets — Indigenous culture, historic river ports and paddle steamers, pristine wetlands teeming with native wildlife, irrigated vineyards and orchards, and wide-open spaces with boundless opportunities for recreation and adventure.
THE MURRAY RIVER
High in the Australian Alps, just south of Mount Kosciuszko, the Indi Springs feed a runnel that trickles west through alpine meadows, gathering other streams and creeks as it descends the mountain ranges to form the Murray River. From these lofty headwaters, the Murray flows 2520km through broad alluvial valleys to its mouth on the Southern Ocean, at Goolwa in South Australia.
Along the way, it is joined by other major rivers, including the Geehi, Goulburn, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee and the Darling which brings with it water from the Culgoa, Balonne, Condamine, Warrego and Paroo Rivers in Queensland. Collectively, these rivers and their tributaries drain one of the world’s largest catchments — the Murray-Darling Basin — spanning more than one million square kilometres, about one-seventh of the Australian
