Mitta Mitta is a farming community in the north eastern part of the

Riverina The Riverina is an agricultural region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, warm to hot climate and an ample supply of water for irrigation ...

. It is situated by road, about south of Bethungra and north east of

Nangus Nangus is a village on the Wagga Wagga to Gundagai Road on the north side of the Murrumbidgee River. From Nangus, Junee, Gundagai, Wantabadgery, Oura, New South Wales, Oura and Wagga Wagga are accessible. Nangus is approximately due west of Gund ...

. 200px, left, Mitta Mitta Cemetery Mitta Mitta is locatable only by finding the old

St Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...

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situated along a corrugated dirt road that runs west from the Nangus to Bethungra road. The name ''Mitta Mitta'' is derived from the local

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words "mida-modunga" meaning "where reeds grow". Mitta Mitta Post Office opened on 1 January 1888, was reduced to a Telephone Office in 1931 and closed in 1936.

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{{authority control Towns in the Riverina Towns in New South Wales