Australian History

[Pr2cv]

Which river in NSW is the longest?

 

[slowflow]

Murray

 

[richo966]

darling

 

[Pr2cv]

darling

Who you calling Darling?

No

 

[Pr2cv]

Murray

Not the Murray

 

[Pr2cv]

Murray

 

[deepblue]

What about the Murrumbidgee River runs from above the ACT to the Murry.

 

[DrDuck]

Most sources give the Murray, but if you mean a river totally within NSW, it is probably the Murrumbidgee.

 

[DrDuck]

Must have posted that just as I was typing, deep blue!

 

[deepblue]

Sorry DrDuck must have typed faster than you

 

[Pr2cv]

Murrumbidgee it is!

 

[deepblue]

Here's one for you , Names of the two Bushrangers shot within two months of each other and the year, months of their death?

 

[Goldpick]

Ben Hall, 5th May 1865, and Dan Morgan, 9th April 1865.

 

[deepblue]

Right on the money Goldpick
Your turn
deepblue
Still have that coil for you early nugget finder.

 

[Goldpick]

Where was Australia's first railway situated, and what was its purpose?

 

[Ramjet]

Oh Pete will be all over this one

 

[DrDuck]

Was it in Newcastle in 1831? Did we already have this question, or was it about the first railway tunnel?

Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway,[1] located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales. Privately owned and operated to service the A Pit coal mine, it was a cast iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway.

 

[Goldpick]

Correct, next!

 

[Ramjet]

Was it in Newcastle in 1831? Did we already have this question, or was it about the first railway tunnel?

Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway,[1] located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales. Privately owned and operated to service the A Pit coal mine, it was a cast iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway.

We did have the first rail tunnel... Merewether beach.

 

[DrDuck]

All other continents have one of these, but not Australia?