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Swan Hill is a city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the junction of the Loddon River. [1]

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ABC Mildura Swan Hill

ABC Mildura Swan Hill (call sign: 3MIL) is an ABC Local Radio station based in Mildura, Victoria.

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Albury–Wodonga

Albury–Wodonga is the broad settlement incorporating the twin Australian cities of Albury and Wodonga, which are separated geographically by the Murray River and politically by a state border: Albury on the north of the river is part of New South Wales while Wodonga on the south bank is in Victoria.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australians

Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are people associated with Australia, sharing a common history, culture, and language (Australian English).

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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and approximately north west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Burke and Wills expedition

The Burke and Wills expedition was an Australian exploration expedition in 1860–61 of 19 men, led by Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, with the objective of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south, to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres (approximately 2,000 miles).

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Castle Donnington, Victoria

Castle Donnington is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 10 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.

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Central Murray Football League

The Central Murray Football League is a major country Australian rules football competition based in northern Victoria, Australia and southwest New South Wales, Australia.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Coobool Creek

Coolbool Creek is an archaeological site near the Wakool River in New South Wales, Australia.

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Division of Mallee

The Division of Mallee is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Echuca

Echuca is a town located on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia.

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Electoral district of Murray Plains

The Electoral district of Murray Plains is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia.

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English Australians

English Australians, also known as Anglo-Australians, are Australians of English descent, and are the largest 'ancestry' identity in the Australian census.

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Ficus macrophylla

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the family Moraceae native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, as well as Lord Howe Island.

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Francis Cadell (explorer)

Francis William Cadell (9 February 1822 – 1879) was a European explorer of Australia, most remembered for opening the Murray River up for transport by steamship and for his activities as a slave trader.

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Georg von Neumayer

Georg Balthazar von Neumayer (21 June 1826 – 24 May 1909), was a German polar explorer and scientist who was a proponent of the idea of international cooperation for meteorology and scientific observation.

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GLV/BCV

GLV and BCV are television stations licensed to serve regional Victoria, Australia.

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Goschen, Victoria

Goschen is a locality in Victoria, Australia, located approximately 20 km from Swan Hill, Victoria.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

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Irish Australians

Irish Australians (Gael-Astrálaigh) are an ethnic group of Australian citizens of Irish descent, which include immigrants from and descendants whose ancestry originates from the island of Ireland.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Italian Australians

Italian Australians comprise the sixth largest ethnic group in Australia, with the 2016 census finding 4.6% of the population (1,000,013 people) claiming ancestry from Italy be they migrants to Australia or their descendants born in Australia of Italian heritage.

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James Aldridge

Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist.

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Kow Swamp Archaeological Site

Cast of Kow Swamp 1 The Kow Swamp archaeological site comprises a series of late Pleistocene burials within the lunette of the eastern rim of a former lake known as Kow Swamp.

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List of cities in Australia

This is a list of cities in Australia arranged by state.

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List of crossings of the Murray River

The Murray River in south-eastern Australia has been a significant barrier to land-based travel and trade.

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Little Murray River (Victoria)

The Little Murray River, an anabranch of the Murray River and part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Mallee district of north western Victoria, in eastern Australia.

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Loddon River

The Loddon River, an inland river of the northcentral catchment, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the lower Riverina bioregion and Central Highlands and Loddon Mallee regions of the Australian state of Victoria.

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MacKillop College, Swan Hill

MacKillop College is a Catholic co-educational secondary school in Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

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Mannum

Mannum is a historic town on the west bank of the Murray River in South Australia, east of Adelaide.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Mildura

Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia.

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Murrawee, Victoria

Murrawee is a town located in the Rural City of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

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Murray River

The Murray River (or River MurrayIn South Australia, the rendition "River Murray" is the most common, as is "River Darling" and "River Torrens".) (Ngarrindjeri: Millewa, Yorta Yorta: Tongala) is Australia's longest river, at in length.

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Murray Valley Highway

The Murray Valley Highway is a state highway located in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia.

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Murraydale, Victoria

Murraydale is a town located in the 'Central' Ward of the Rural City of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

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National Bank of Australasia

The National Bank of Australasia was a bank based in Melbourne.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

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Pental Island, Victoria

Pental Island is a rural locality in Victoria, Australia, bordering Swan Hill, Victoria in the north.

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Piangil

Piangil, once frequently spelled "Pyangil", is a town in the Mallee region of northern Victoria, Australia.

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Piangil railway line

The Piangil railway line (often referred to as the Swan Hill railway line) is in Victoria, Australia.

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Platypus

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania.

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Prime7

Prime7 is an Australian television network owned by Prime Media Group Limited, and an affiliate of the Seven Network.

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Punt (boat)

A punt is a flat-bottomed boat with a square-cut bow, designed for use in small rivers or other shallow water.

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Rice

Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or Oryza glaberrima (African rice).

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SBS (Australian TV channel)

SBS is a national public television network in Australia.

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Scottish Americans

Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland.

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Semi-arid climate

A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.

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Sunraysia Institute of TAFE

The Sunraysia Institute of TAFE is the TAFE institute servicing Mildura, Victoria since 1979.

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Swan Hill Airport

Swan Hill Airport is located south of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

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Swan Hill railway station

Swan Hill railway station is the terminal station of the Yungeral line in Victoria, Australia.

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Swan Hill West, Victoria

Swan Hill West is a locality located in the 'Lakes' Ward of the Rural City of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

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Thomas Mitchell (explorer)

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland.

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Thoroughbred racing in Australia

Thoroughbred horse racing is an important spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horse races is a popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB).

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Tyntynder South, Victoria

Tyntynder South is a locality in the local government area of the Rural City of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

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Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic, Late Stone Age) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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V/Line

V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates the regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.

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Vertical-lift bridge

A vertical-lift bridge or just lift bridge is a type of movable bridge in which a span rises vertically while remaining parallel with the deck.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Vine

A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners.

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Wemba-Wemba

The Wemba-Wemba are an Indigenous Australian group in north-Western Victoria and south-western New South Wales, Australia, including in the Mallee and the Riverina regions.

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William Randell

William Richard Randell "Captain Randell" (2 May 1824 – 4 March 1911), was an Australian politician and pioneer born in Devon, England, who emigrated to the newly founded colony of South Australia in 1837 with his family.

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WIN Television

WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Woorinen South, Victoria

Woorinen South is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Yumi Stynes

Yumi Tasma Stynes (born 2 June 1975) is an Australian television and radio presenter.

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3SH

3SH is a commercial radio station in Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia broadcasting on the medium wave band on a frequency of 1332kHz.

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History of Swan Hill, Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement, Swan Hill, Victoria.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Hill

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