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New South Wales, Australia
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Goulburn, principal city of the Southern Tablelands, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies at the confluence of the Wollondilly and Mulwaree rivers. A settlement was established on a site chosen in 1818 by the explorer Hamilton Hume and was originally named Goulburn Plains after Henry Goulburn, then undersecretary of state for the colonies. Surveyed in 1828 and founded in 1833 as a garrison and convict town, it was declared a municipality in 1859 and...

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