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 (explorer), Francis Cadell (1822–1879), river navigator and entrepreneur who in 1852, i ...

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ern

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

, Australia. It is 15 km

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Echuca Echuca ( ) is a town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria (state), 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 cen ...

, Victoria on the Balranald branch line of the

Deniliquin railway line The Deniliquin railway line (also known as the Bendigo railway line or the Echuca railway line) is a broad-gauge railway line serving north-western Victoria, Australia. The line runs from the New South Wales town of Deniliquin into Bendigo, ...

. The Parish is on the

Murray River The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray; Ngarrindjeri language, Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta language, Yorta Yorta: ''Dhungala'' or ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is List of rivers of Australia, Aust ...

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 Womboota is a locality in the central-southern part of the Riverina. It is about north from Moama by road, and south-west from Bunnaloo. At the , Womboota had a population of 105. Womboota is in the Deniliquin land district and the Murray R ...

, New South Wales. The

Cadell Fault The Cadell Fault is a north-south trending intra-plate Fault (geology), geological fault in the Riverina area of New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria, in Australia. It straddles the Murray River and, in quite recent geological tim ...

runs through the parish.

Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

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

Division of Farrer The Division of Farrer is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. It is currently represented by Leader of the Opposition (Aust ...

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 ext ...

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 Wale ...

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 1852 Francis Cadell, began a steam ship service. The river here is still navigable by

paddle steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, whereby the first uses were wh ...

References

Populated places on the Murray River

Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...

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