Murrumbidgee

American  

[mur-uhm-bij-ee] / ˌmɜr əmˈbɪdʒ i /

noun

1. a river in SE Australia, flowing W through New South Wales to the Murray River. 1,050 miles (1,690 km) long.

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Murrumbidgee British  

/ ˌmʌrəmˈbɪdʒɪ /

noun

1. a river in SE Australia, rising in S New South Wales and flowing north and west to the Murray River: important for irrigation. Length: 1690 km (1050 miles)

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Murrumbidgee

March 2020 marked the end of a 3-year drought in the Murray-Darling Basin, a 1-million-square-kilometer area that drains the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers and that includes Corowa, Albury, and Grong Grong.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 21, 2023

In Hay, the Murrumbidgee river has exceeded the levels hit during the floods in 1974, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2022

“Fortunately, the Murrumbidgee River peaked on Thursday and we’re starting to see the floodwaters decline in those areas,” New South Wales State Emergency Service official Andrew Edmunds said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

“I was told when you revive a lost language, you give it back to all mankind,” he said, sitting in his kitchen, not far from where the kingfishers darted across the Murrumbidgee.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2016

So he gave up the police an' we went a long way farther back to Gool-Gool on the Yarrangung, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles