Blanchetown is a small township in South Australia, on the bank of the Murray River, 130 kilometres northeast of Adelaide. The Blanchetown Bridge is the westernmost of the four crossings of the Sturt
Dead gum trees in the Murray River near Blanchetown in 1989
The Riverland is a region of South Australia. It covers an area of 9,386 square kilometres along the River Murray from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria downstream
Blanchetown
…of historic buildings and temporary shacks built by holidaymakers on the banks of the river". Blanchetown is widely regarded as the entrance to the Riverland district. Blanchetown is in the traditional lands of the Ngarrindjeri people. Blanchetown was originally surveyed in October 1855 as Blanche Town. It…