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Gundagai, town, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Murrumbidgee River. The site of Gundagai, originally a sheep run called Willia Ploma, was surveyed in 1838, and the town, a former riverport, derived its present name from an Aboriginal term meaning “going upstream.” A disastrous flood in 1852 drowned 89 townspeople. The discovery of gold in 1861 at nearby Spring Flat stimulated both its growth and bushranger (outlaw) depredations. Mining continued until 1875...

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