Monash is a town in the

Riverland The Riverland is a region of South Australia. It covers an area of along the Murray River, River Murray from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria downstream to Blanchetown, South Australia ...

area of

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. It is on the Sturt Highway between Barmera and Renmark. Monash was proclaimed in 1921 and is named after General Sir

John Monash General (Australia), General Sir John Monash (; 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931) was an Australian civil engineer and military commander of the World War I, First World War. He commanded the 13th Brigade (Australia), 13th Infantry Brigade befor ...

, a

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army commander. The primary industry is irrigated

horticulture Horticulture (from ) is the art and science of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs and ornamental plants. Horticulture is commonly associated with the more professional and technical aspects of plant cultivation on a smaller and mo ...

and

viticulture Viticulture (, "vine-growing"), viniculture (, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine ...

. Monash is in the Berri Barmera Council, state

electoral district of Chaffey Chaffey, created in 1936, is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia including the towns of Renmark, South Australia ...

, and federal Division of Barker. Its postcode is 5342.

Settlement

Land at Monash was allocated to repatriated soldiers returned from World War I as part of the State Government Soldier Settler Scheme. The southern part of the settlement was occupied first and was originally known as Lone Gum after a prominent local landmark, a River Red Gum tree ( Eucalyptus camaldulensis). The tree still stands today, although it was nearly destroyed in a fire caused by a local land owner. The tree's image is used on the Monash Primary School emblem.

Monash Adventure Playground

Monash is best known in South Australia as the home of a major adventure

playground A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some are designed for other age groups, or people wi ...

for adults as well as children with tall, fast and twisty slippery dips and other equipment. This was built by a local engineering company, and open for free public use. Concerns about public liability led to its scaling down and eventual closure. It reopened in 1996 without the high towers, but with better picnic facilities and less "dangerous" equipment now including a giant

maze A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead ...

. In the mid-2000s the flying fox connected to the high towers were removed because citizens viewed them as a safety hazard. File:MonashAdventurePark2.jpg, Monash Adventure Park maze and lake File:MonashAdventurePark1.JPG, The main feature of the Monash adventure park is the flying fox at the top of this hill File:MonashAdventureParkOldPlayground.JPG, One of the "Dangerous" playground attractions File:Monash Playground 5.png, A very unusual see-saw at the original playground File:Monash Playground 4.png, A quite frightening slippery slide at the original playground File:Monash Playground 3.png, Another only slightly less frightening slippery slide File:Monash Playground 2.png, I am not sure what to call this! File:Monash Playground 1.png, Nor what I should call this

Notes and references

Towns in South Australia South Australian soldier settlements Riverland 1921 establishments in Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub

Settlement

Monash Adventure Playground

See also

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