Wagga Wagga Tourism, NSW Australia
(Wagga Wagga is also known as Tent Town)
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Wagga Wagga Fast Facts
- State: NSW
- District: Legislative Assembly
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- Language: English
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- STDCode: 02 693
Wagga Wagga Info
22 Kincaid Road
2650 - WAGGA WAGGAAUSTRALIA
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(+61)2/69216235
Wagga Wagga, Australia Overview
Wagga Wagga is the largest inland city in New South Wales, with a population of around 60,000 people, is located on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River. Wagga Wagga, in local Aboriginal dialect means Place of many crows. Its very rare for anyone to say the second Wagga, and the town is universally pronunced as Wogga.
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Wagga Wagga, Australia History
The early colonists first sighted the land in December 1829, which the flourishing City of Wagga Wagga now stands. The persons present at first sighting consisted of Captain Charles Sturt, 39th Regiment, stationed in Sydney, Mr George Macleay and six others. This party passed over the site of future Wagga Wagga on its expedition of discovery down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers. Settlement swiftly followed.Wagga Wagga was proclaimed a town in 1849 and in the same year surveyor Thomas Townshend marked out the town. In the 1860s the population totaled approximately 700, but by 1881 it had increased to 3,975. In 1879 the railway line was extended south of the river.
The name of the City is derived from the language of the Wiradjuri tribe, which was the biggest aboriginal tribe in New South Wales, embracing the Riverina area."Wagga", "Wahga" or Wahgam" in aboriginal dialect means "crow". The repetition of a word was the method of expressing the plural or emphasis, thus Wagga Wagga means "crows" or "the place where crows assemble in large numbers". The Murrumbidgee River which runs through the City also derived its name from the aboriginal language and means "plenty water" or "big water".