Albury

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Albury
View over Albury
State :  Australia State : New South Wales Founded : 1839
Coordinates : 36 ° 5 ′  S , 146 ° 55 ′  E Coordinates: 36 ° 5 ′  S , 146 ° 55 ′  E Height : 165  m Area : 64.1  km²
Residents : 51,076 (2016) Population density : 797 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 2640 LGA : Albury City Council
Albury

Albury is a town on the Murray River in the extreme south of New South Wales in Australia . At the 2011 census it had 45,627 inhabitants. The city and the surrounding villages are in the administrative area Albury City . Together with the city of Wodonga , Albury forms a metropolitan area in which around 82,000 people live.

history

Before the first Europeans arrived in Albury, the Wiadjuri lived in what is now the city. It is believed, however, that they did not get there long before the Europeans. On November 16, 1824, the explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell came on their expedition to the Murray River near Albury, which they then called the Hume River. They carved their names into the Hume Tree on November 17th and then traveled on.

From the 1830s, the first Europeans, mainly shepherds , settled and drove out the local population. From April 13, 1839, the little settlement was officially called Albury , the original name was Bungambrewatha . In 1847 there was a coaching inn, two inns and a blacksmith's shop in Albury. In 1851 New South Wales was divided into two independent colonies , the north was still called New South Wales, the south was called Victoria . The Murray River, on which Albury lies, became the border and Albury became the border town, benefiting from the tariffs that were imposed there.

Many German immigrants who grew wine in the region arrived in the second half of the 19th century. Since 1881 Albury has been on the Sydney to Melbourne railway line, and since New South Wales and Victoria initially had different gauges, trains were changed in Albury. In 1911 Albury had 5862 inhabitants. In 1936 the Hume Dam was completed to protect the city from floods.

Under the government of Gough Whitlam it was decided to promote the Albury-Wodonga region as a large inland center in order to relieve the coastal cities, in particular Sydney and Melbourne. In 1981 there were 30,072 people in Albury. It was planned that the twin cities should have 300,000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area by the year 2000. In reality it didn't even get 100,000, but with industry settling in the area it is now a very affluent area, and Albury is one of the few inland towns not dependent on agriculture.

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  Albury Railway Station, built in 1881

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  Railway station platform (longest platform in the southern hemisphere)

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  View of the city from the War Memorial

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  Street scene

Geography and climate

The city is on the Murray River, at the foot of the Great Dividing Range . The airport is 164 meters above sea level.

Albury is in the warm temperate climate zone. There are four distinctly different seasons of the year. The winters are mild, the summers warm to hot. An average of 737 mm of rain falls annually (for comparison: Vienna 613 mm; Berlin 578 mm). Most of the rain falls in August, the least in February.

In summer the temperature almost always rises above 30 ° C, there are an average of 17 days a year with highs above 35 ° C, the average daily high in winter is 14 ° C. Then there is often frost in the nights, but it hardly ever snows.

ALBURY
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     49   31 16     40   31 15th     38   28 12     45   23 9     55   18th 6th     70   14th 3     82   13 3     81   15th 4th     66   18th 6th     64   21st 8th     57   25th 11     51   29 13 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Bureau of Meteorology

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for ALBURY Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.2 30.9 27.6 22.7 17.8 13.9 13.0 14.8 17.7 21.2 25.4 28.8 O 22nd Min. Temperature (° C) 15.5 15.4 12.4 8.5 5.5 3.4 2.7 3.6 5.5 7.9 10.9 13.3 O 8.7 Precipitation ( mm ) 48.6 40.1 37.9 45.1 55.4 69.8 82.3 80.7 66.4 63.5 57.0 50.9 Σ 697.7 Rainy days ( d ) 6.1 5.6 5.3 6.3 9.9 13.6 15.9 15.0 12.1 10.0 8.6 7.2 Σ 115.6 Source: Bureau of Meteorology

economy

Albury is an administrative and industrial center in southern New South Wales. There is a large paper mill there, an auto parts factory and an important branch of the Australian tax authorities.

sons and daughters of the town

• Arthur Green (1857-1944), bishop
• Jack Crawford (1908-1991), tennis player
• Margaret Smith Court (born 1942), tennis player
• Heinrich Steinfest (* 1961), author
• Richard Roxburgh (born 1962), actor
• Lyndelle Higginson (* 1978), track cyclist
• Rebekah Keat (* 1978), triathlete
• Chris McDonald (* 1978), triathlete
• David McPartland (* 1980), racing cyclist
• Lauren Jackson (born 1981), basketball player
• Daniel Ellis (* 1988), track cyclist
• Lisa Mitchell (* 1990), musician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Albury (C) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
2. ↑ http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2011/quickstat/1001
3. ^ Bureau of Meteorology

Web links

Commons : Albury  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Albury  Travel Guide

• Side of the area administration Albury City (Engl.)