Renmark

Renmark, town, southeastern South Australia, located on the Murray River 130 miles (209 km) northeast of Adelaide. The site was first settled in 1887 by George and William Chaffey, Canadian-born irrigation engineers who had come to Australia via California. They received a land grant of 250,000 acres (100,000 hectares) for an irrigation project. The program, after a near failure in 1893, was successfully managed by an elected Irrigation Trust. The original open irrigation channels were...