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Murray (Largest river in Australia)

the largest river in Australia, rising in the Australian Alps about 36° 40' S. and 147° E., its source being partly in New South Wales, partly in Victoria. It flows for a long distance W., forming the boundary between the two colonies, then passes into South Australia, where it takes a S. direction, and falls into the sea through a large shallow sheet of water called Lake Alexandrina.

There is a sandbar at the mouth which impedes navigation, but small steamers ascend the river as high as Albury, 1,700 miles from its mouth. Its chief tributaries are the Murrumbidgee, the Darling, and the Lachlan. The Darling before its junction with the Murray may even be considered the main stream.