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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.
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.
Wilcannia is a small town located within the Central Darling Shire in north western New South Wales, Australia.Located on the Darling River, the town was the third largest inland port in the country during the river boat era of the mid-19th century. [3]
Longest rivers in Australia by length (September 2008) Order River name System Length Source km miles 1 Murray River: Murray-Darling: 2,375 1,476 [1] 2 Murrumbidgee River: Murray-Darling: 1,485 923 3 Darling River: Murray-Darling: 1,472 915 4 Lachlan River: Murray-Darling: 1,448 900 5 Warrego River: Murray-Darling: 1,380 857 6 Cooper Creek ...
The Border Rivers are a group of Australian rivers and the associated region near part of the state border between New South Wales and Queensland.. The rivers rise in the New England Tablelands bioregion and drain the western side of the Great Dividing Range as they collectively form part of the headwaters of the Darling River within the Murray-Darling basin.
The Murray forms part of the 3,750 km (2,330 mi) long combined Murray–Darling river system that drains most of the inland of Victoria, New South Wales and the southern part of Queensland. The Murray carries only a small fraction of the water of comparably sized rivers in other parts of the world, and with great annual variability of its flow.
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The Menindee Lakes is a system of 9 large, but relatively shallow lakes, located in south-west New South Wales on the Darling (Barka) River, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) upstream of the Darling River's junction with the Murray River. The Darling River is fed by nine major tributary river systems flowing from south-east Queensland and north and ...