Meribah is a small settlement in the Brown's Well district of the

Murray Mallee The Murray Mallee is a cereal, grain-growing and sheep-farming area in the east of the Australian state of South Australia. The name is not formally designated but is widely used to refer to an area of approximately bounded by the Murray Rive ...

region of

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. It is from the border with

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, north of Pinnaroo, and south-east of Loxton. The

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

was a short-lived terminus of the

Barmera railway line The Barmera railway line was the second railway built to develop the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, in 1913. It followed the success of the Pinnaroo railway line in 1906. Both lines branched east from Tailem Bend to the north of the ...

in 1913 until construction extended to Paringa later in the year. The town was proclaimed on 26 November 1914; it was named after a nearby bore styled Meribah, the biblical place where

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"struck the rock and water gushed forth". The post office opened in March 1916 and closed in June 1985.

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