Balranald

Balranald is located on the Sturt Highway on the Murrumbidgee River, 553 km east of Adelaide and 643 kilometers west of Canberra. In the place in New South Wales live 1200 inhabitants.

Balranald is the gateway to Mungo National Park, located about 150 kilometers away. In this park, which became the first national park in Australia in the World Heritage Site, geologists found the two oldest human skeletons of Australia, the Mungo Man and Mungo Lady with an age of 40,000 years.

When the discoverer of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell explored the area in 1836, he reported on the good soil quality, followed by settlers settled in the area and Balranald founded in 1851 as a city. The place has to have the reputation of the best fishing grounds in Australia's rivers. Five rivers can be achieved away within about 30 kilometers. In Balranald is an Art Gallery in a 120 year old Masonic Lodge and the Greenham Park. End of October, takes place every 2 years instead of the Balranald Outback Festival.

Balranald lives of the sheep and cattle farming, logging, mining, and tourism.