The Murray River Basin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4842764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Fenner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1934 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Publication date | 1934-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/209495 |
| OpenAlex | W2327639685 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
rT HE basin of the Murray River is the most important economic unit of the physiographic divisions of Australia. Its area (414,000 square miles) is more than twice that of Germany and is about one-seventh of the total area of the commonwealth. It lies, moreover, in the southeast of the island continent, the portion most favorably situated as far as climatic conditions are concerned.' While the western margin touches upon the sand ridges and porcupine grass of the desert interior, the greater part of the basin is grassland and savana. The eastern and southern margins are largely occupied by hill and valley, with timbered ranges, high fertility, and a wide variety of productions. In the north the basin reaches almost to the tropics, and it stretches southward to latitude 37? S. Though a powerful and capable federal commission has been in control of its waters for over twenty years, it is not the custom in Australia to think of the Murray Basin as a unit. The feeling for state rights overrides the more rational way of considering the basin. Moreover, the interests of the marginal areas are linked very closely with those of the nearer capital cities. The human forces that control the Murray Basin do not reside within that basin, and it has come about that in their tendencies they are to a large extent antagonistic to the chief natural geographical factors. Now in an area so varied, so fertile, and so extensive transport is an outstanding problem. In this respect somewhat of a tragedy has been enacted. The natural course whereby the wealth of the basin should go to the outside world is by the easy grades downward towards the mouth, whether by water, which is slow but cheap, by rail, or by road and motor, the likelier development of the future
Archaeology · Geography · Structural basin · Geology · Paleontology · Transboundary Water Resource Management
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1934 - 1983 (50) |
| Highly cited | No |