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Narrandera

New South Wales, Australia
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Narrandera, town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Murrumbidgee River. The site was settled in 1863 as a livestock station, and the settlement was proclaimed a town in 1880. The name Narrandera is Aboriginal, meaning “place of lizards.” Gazetted a borough in 1885, it was merged with Yanco Shire in 1960. Situated within the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, it serves, with the nearby towns of Leeton and Griffith, a district producing beef, fodder,...

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