The junction of Australia’s two largest rivers, the Murray and the Darling
The junction of the Murray and Darling rivers is where the town of Wentworth began. Sturt arrived at the confluence in 1830, James McLeod and a Mr Bates made camp there around 1840 after overlanders such as Thomas Mitchell, in 1836, and Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney in 1838 opened the way by using the junction as a ’crossing’ for cattle and sheep, to begin the ’Sydney/Adelaide Highway’. Wentworth grew in strength and prosperity during the riverboat era because of its position at the junction of Australia’s two greatest rivers and the commencement of the grazing industry. The Murray and Darling river system is the fourth largest system in the world.
The junction of the Murray and Darling rivers is where the town of Wentworth began. Sturt arrived at the confluence in 1830, James McLeod and a Mr Bates made camp there around 1840 after overlanders such as Thomas Mitchell, in 1836, and Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney in 1838 opened the way by using the junction as a ’crossing’ for cattle and sheep, to begin the ’Sydney/Adelaide Highway’. Wentworth grew in strength and prosperity during the riverboat era because of its position at the junction of Australia’s two greatest rivers and the commencement of the grazing industry. The Murray and Darling river system is the fourth largest system in the world.
