Blanchetown

Blanchetown (250 inhabitants) is a village of southernmost Australia on Right Bank of the river Murray to 130 km in north east of Adélaïde.

The city owes its name in White Lady MacDonnell, the woman of the governor of southernmost Australia, Sir Richard MacDonnell. It is the governor who personally chooses the site of the city to install there the inhabitants of a preceding site of settlement, Murrundi (or Moorundee) who was subjected to the floods.

The city accommodated the first guards of the aboriginals, people who were to learn the language and the habits from the first inhabitants and charged, by the British House of Commons, to ensure a protection of the aboriginals against cruelty and the injustices.

The city has the first lock built on Murray in 1922 to allow a river traffic throughout the year.

In 1869, the city profited from a vat to cross the river then into 1963 of a bridge which has being remade since being able to support the road convoys. The city being located at the north of the line Goydere, the plain located around is regarded as unsuitable with the culture; the nonirrigable zones are used for the breeding of the sheep, the zones irrigated with the culture of citrus fruits.

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