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Southern Sun On THE RIVER MURRAY
Southern Sun is situated in a fantastic part of the river 8kms from Mannum, offering easy and spectacular cruising destinations all within a few hours cruising.
Many hirers have to travel hours, through the dairy flats, before they get to the start of the rivers key attractions.
Mannum, Swan Reach, Big Bend, Nildottie all within easy reach of Adelaide or on the right side, for our interstate friends!
Take in the stunning scenes of the River Murray as she rolls by with stunning views and wildlife
Photographs of the River Murray, Murray Bridge, Swan Reach, Mannum & Nildottie courtesy of Hypervision
A BIT ABOUT THE RIVER MURRAY
The River Murray is Australia's longest river at 2,508 kilometres in length. The Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows to the northwest, before turning south for its final 500 kilometres into South Australia, reaching the ocean at Lake Alexandrina.
The water of the Murray flows through several lakes that fluctuate in salinity (and were often fresh until recent decades) including Lake Alexandrina and The Coorong before emptying through the Murray Mouth into the southeastern portion of the Indian Ocean, often referenced on Australian maps as the Southern Ocean, near Goolwa.Despite discharging considerable volumes of water at times, particularly before the advent of largescale river regulation, the mouth has always been comparatively small and shallow.
As of 2010, the Murray River system receives 58 percent of its natural flow. It is perhaps Australia's most important irrigated region, and it is widely known as the food bowl of the nation.
The Murray River forms part of the 3,750 km (2,330 mi) long combined Murray-Darling river system which drains most of inland Victoria, New South Wales, and southern Queensland. Overall the catchment area is one seventh of Australia's total land mass. The Murray carries only a small fraction of the water of comparably-sized rivers in other parts of the world, and with a great annual variability of its flow. In its natural state it has even been known to dry up completely during extreme droughts, although that is extremely rare, with only two or three instances of this occurring since official record keeping began.
The Murray River makes up much of the border between the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales. Where it does, the border is the top of the bank of the southern side of the river (i.e., none of the river itself is actually in Victoria).This boundary definition can be ambiguous, since the river changes course, and some of the river banks have been modified.