Albury
Albury is a city on the Murray River in the extreme south of New South Wales in Australia. In the 2011 census it had 45 627 inhabitants. The city and the surrounding villages are located in the administrative area of Albury City. Together with the City of Wodonga Albury forms a large room where about 100,000 people live.
History
Before the first Europeans arrived in Albury, the Wiadjuri lived in the territory of the present-day city. It is believed, however, that they did not before the Europeans got there long. On 16 November 1824, the explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell came on their expedition to the Murray River at Albury, which they then called Hume River. They cut their names on 17 November in the Hume Tree, a tree, and then went on our journey.
In the 1830s, the first Europeans settled, mainly shepherds, and expelled the local population. As of April 13, 1839 the small settlement was officially called Albury, the original name was Bungambrewatha. 1847 there was a post station in Albury, two pubs and a forge. 1851 New South Wales divided into two independent colonies from each other, the North was still New South Wales, the south was called Victoria. The Murray River, located on the Albury, Albury became the border and the border town, which has benefited from the duties that were raised there.
Many German immigrants, who grew wine in the region, came on in the second half of the 19th century. Since 1881 Albury is located on the railway line from Sydney to Melbourne, and as New South Wales and Victoria initially had different rail widths, the trains were changed in Albury. 1911 Albury counted 5862 inhabitants. 1936, the Hume Dam was completed, which is to protect the city from floods.
Under the government of Gough Whitlam was decided to promote the region as a major center Wodonga Albury domestically in order to relieve the coastal cities, particularly Sydney and Melbourne. 1981 30 072 people lived in Albury. It was planned that the Twin Cities should have 2000 300.000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area by the year. In reality, there were not even 100,000, but by the establishment of industries in the region, it is now a very wealthy area, and Albury one of the few cities in Germany that are not dependent on agriculture.
Platform of the railway station (longest platform in the Southern Hemisphere )
View of the city from the War Memorial
Street Scene
Geography and climate
The city is situated on the Murray River, at the foot of the Great Dividing Range. The airport is located 164 meters above the sea level.
Albury is located in the temperate warm climate. There are four significantly different from each other seasons. Winters are mild, summers are warm to hot. In the year an average of 737 mm of rain fall (compared to Vienna 613 mm; Berlin 578 mm). Most of the rain falls in August, the least in February.
In summer the temperature rises almost always above 30 ° C, there are in an average of 17 days with highs above 35 ° C, the average daily maximum in winter is 14 ° C. There is then in the nights often frost, it's snowing but almost never.
Economy
Albury is the administrative and industrial center in southern New South Wales. There is a large paper mill, an auto parts factory and an important branch of the Australian tax authority.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Arthur Green (1857 - 1944), Bishop
- Jack Crawford (1908 - 1991), tennis player
- Margaret Smith Court ( b. 1942 ), tennis player
- Heinrich Steinfest ( b. 1961 ), author
- Richard Roxburgh (born 1962 ), actor
- Lyndelle Higginson (born 1978 ), track cyclist
- Rebekah Keat (born 1978 ), triathlete
- David McPartland ( born 1980 ), cyclist
- Lauren Jackson ( born 1981 ), basketball player
- Daniel Ellis ( * 1988), racing cyclist
- Lisa Mitchell (* 1990), musician