Karween is a locality situated on the Redcliffs-Merringur Road in the
Sunraysia
Sunraysia is a region located in northwestern Victoria and southwestern New South Wales in Australia. The region is renowned for its sunshine, intensive horticulture including grapes and oranges. Its main centre is Mildura, Victoria.
The are ...
region, south of the
Sturt Highway
Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. It is an important road link for the transport of passengers and freight between Sydney and Adelaide and the regions along the route.
Initiall ...
. It is about 9 kilometres (about 5.6 miles) east from
Morkalla and 6 kilometres (about 3.7 miles) west from
Meringur. The railway arrived soon after the area was
settled
A settler or a colonist is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities. The entity that a settler establishes is a settlement. A settler is called a pioneer if they are among the first settli ...
by returned servicemen after
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
, in 1931, and closed in 1964.
Karween had a progress association operating in the 1930s.
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