Mars, New South Wales is a

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Cadell County Cadell County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It contains the city of Moama. Cadell County was named in honour of Francis Cadell (1822-1879), river navigator and entrepreneur who in 1852, in preparation for the launch ...

, Southern

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, Australia. It is 15 km

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Echuca, Victoria Echuca ( ) is a town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia. The border town of Moama is adjacent on the northern side of the Murray River in New South Wales. Echuca is the administrative centre and largest s ...

on the Balranald branch line of the

Deniliquin railway line The Deniliquin railway line (also known as the Echuca railway line) is a broad-gauge railway line serving northwestern Victoria, Australia. The line runs from the border settlement of Deniliquin into Bendigo, before turning south-southeast to ...

. The Parish is on the

Murray river The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest ...

and therefore borders the State of

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, It lies at the closest point on that border to

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the Capital of Victoria. The Perricoota State Forest covers much of the west of the parish and the main town is Womboota, New South Wales. The Cadell Fault runs through the parish.

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remains the main economic activity and electorally the locality is in the

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History

The area was the traditional home of the

Barababaraba The Barababaraba people (also spelt ''Barapabarapa'') are an indigenous Australian people whose territory covered parts of southern New South Wales and northern Victoria. They had close connections with the Wemba Wemba. Barababaraba have exten ...

and

Yorta Yorta The Yorta Yorta, also known as Jotijota, are an Aboriginal Australian people who have traditionally inhabited the area surrounding the junction of the Goulburn and Murray Rivers in present-day north-eastern Victoria and southern New South Wales ...

peoples, with the Ngureaiillam people across the river. The first

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ans to the area were Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, in 1824, and Captain Charles Sturt in 1830. In In 1852 Francis Cadell, began a steam ship service. The river here is still navigable by

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References

Populated places on the Murray River

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin at ...

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