Marne River (South Australia)

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The Marne River is a river in the east of the Australian state of South Australia. It rises on the eastern slopes of the Mount Lofty Ranges and flows into the Murray River.

Origin of the name

By 1917, called the river Rhine River South ( Southern Rhine). However, due to the feeling against Germany as a result of the First World War he was in Marne River to the French River Marne, took place at the major battles of the First World War, renamed.

River

The source of the Marne River is located between Eden Valley and Springton. From there, the river continues its course through Cambrai and flows Wongulla in the Murray River.

History

In the period before European colonization of the Ngarrindjeri, an aboriginal tribe took advantage of the valley of the Marne River as a route from the Murray River in the hills to drive there with Peramangk, another tribe of indigenous people in the Barossa Valley, Commerce. The bark of Eucalyptus trees in this valley was also thicker than the trees in the Murray valley, so that they could be better used to build canoes. The Aborigines called the river originally Taingappa (English: Footpath, trade route ).