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Mungindi
Border town spreading from New South Wales across to
Queensland.
Mungindi (pronounced 'mung-in-die') is truly a border town.
Half of it is in NSW and half in Queensland. As NSW utilises
daylight savings and Queensland does not, this creates the
unusual situation where the one town is located within
different time zones in the summer.
Mungindi is a small rural town of some 650 people,
located 748 km north-west of Sydney and 120 km north-west of
Moree on the road to St George in Queensland. It is
essentially a service centre to a rich agricultural district
which principally produces cotton, wheat and beef cattle.
The Barwon River flows through the middle of the town,
making it a popular district for anglers.
The town's name derives from the language of the
Kamilaroi people who inhabited the area before white
settlement. It is thought to mean 'water hole by the river'.
Escaped convict George Clarke (see entry on
Boggabri) traversed the district with the Kamilaroi
people in the years 1826-1831. Upon his recapture he told of
a vast inland river called the Kindur which prompted the
acting governor to send Sir Thomas Mitchell to investigate
the claims. Mitchell encountered the Barwon River in 1832, a
little south of present-day Mungindi. It was Mitchell's
favourable report on the pastoral prospects of the area
which prompted squatters to fan out in the 1830s (1) heading
north from the Hunter Valley along the Namoi then west along
the Gwydir River to the Barwon and (2) north from Bathurst
and Mudgee along the Macquarie and Castlereagh Rivers, with
the first settlement on the Barwon occurring between 1839
and 1842.
The town was laid out in 1880 by surveyor Robert Matthews
who did some interesting early ethnographic research
relating to the indigenous people of Australia.
There is an annual show held at the end of May and a race
meeting on the first Saturday in July. The Two Mile Pub is
an old inn of local fame which is indeed two miles out of
town, on the Queensland side of the border.
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