‘This howling wilderness. I am the first white man to see it
and I think I will undoubtedly be the last’

- John Oxley, Surveyor-General of NSW, 1817
giving his impressions of the land on which Griffith now stands.

The Murrumbidgee is a region traversed by the Murrumbidgee River and contains the Murrumbidgee and other irrigation areas, with Wagga Wagga being the major urban centre in the region. With a river that flows for 1,600 km, the Murrumbidgee also include two major water storages, Burrinjuck Dam and Blowering Dam on the Tumut River. The Snowy Scheme dams also store water and provide flows into the Murrumbidgee system via Blowering Dam and the Tumut River. With over 10,000 km of irrigation channels in the region, it is not surprising that the Murrumbidgee produces over 16 per cent of the total agricultural production of Australia. Lake George, Australia's largest freshwater lake, is located near Canberra.

Established in 1906, the Murrumbidgee Shire covers an area of over 3,400 sq km, that include over 100 km of natural river frontage to the Murrumbidgee River. The topography is mainly that of flat open plains at an elevation of 100-135 m above sea level. It offers the visitor a tranquil country lifestyle that sustains the many towns and agricultural communities that have grown around the river including Coleambally, Darlington Point, Gundagai, Wagga Wagga, Hay. The Murrumbidgee covers the shire and councils of:

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