Speewa, New South Wales

Speewa
New South Wales

The Speewa Ferry
Speewa
Coordinates 35°12′S 143°34′E / 35.200°S 143.567°E / -35.200; 143.567Coordinates: 35°12′S 143°34′E / 35.200°S 143.567°E / -35.200; 143.567
Postcode(s) 2735
LGA(s) Murray River Council
County Wakool
State electorate(s) Murray
Federal Division(s) Farrer

Speewa is a rural locality in the Riverina District of New South Wales, Australia near the Murray River in Murray River Council local government area.

It is connected to the locality of Speewa, Victoria by the Speewa Ferry across the Murray. It is unusual in that it shares its name with a contiguous locality in Victoria; the post office having been based in Victoria from 1924 until 1964, before moving to New South Wales until it closed in 1973. [1]

Speewa Island

Speewa Creek is an anabranch of the Murray River and at times of greater flow encloses most of the area of Speewa as Speewa Island. The upstream section of Speewa Creek is now usually dry with the island existing in name only. Speewa Island is adjacent to, and downstream from, Beveridge Island in Victoria.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, retrieved 2008-04-11

Media related to Speewa, New South Wales at Wikimedia Commons


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.