Booligal Information
Map of Booligal
Switch to full-size interactive Booligal mapExplore other great holiday locations in Riverina.
- Cootamundra
Cootamundra has an elevation of 318m and is centrally located geographically in the South West Slopes of New South Wales - between Sydney.. read more
- Griffith
Griffith is the heart of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (MIA) and is one of the largest wine and vegetable production areas in Australia.. read more
- Gundagai
Gundagai will be forever associated with the Australian folklore of 'The Dog On The Tuckerbox' and the characters immortalised in the stories.. read more
- Hay
Hay is located on the banks of the picturesque Murrumbidgee River, at the junction of the Sturt, Cobb and Mid-Western Highways. It is in.. read more
- Narrandera
The area was originally inhabited by the Wiradjuri Aborigines and the town's name is thought to derive from a word meaning 'place of the.. read more
- Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga is one of Australia's leading regional cities. Apart form its excellent educational facilities, it's cultural and sporting.. read more
Booligal Information
Made famous by Banjo Patterson's poem "Hay and Hell and Booligal", the village of Booligal is a small cluster of houses on the tree-lined Lachlan River. It is surrounded by open expanses of grass plain and saltbush that stretch to the curve of the horizon in the distance, broken only by grazing kangaroos and emus, while hawks, wedge-tail eagles and galahs soar overhead.
The village boasts a general store and post office, a cricket oval for the occasional social game, shaded eating areas, playground and toilet facilities. A primary school, complete with tennis courts, has recently reopened with one teacher. And of course, what country town would be complete without a hotel? The Booligal Hotel provides travelers with beverages, BBQs and beds, often in that order.
Explorer and surveyor, John Oxley, was the first to discover the wide plains beyond the Lachlan River. Booligal became an important staging post for the Cobb & Co network in the golden era of the squatters when 100 000 acre sheep stations were held for a shilling an acre- today's 10 cents! The John Oxley Memorial was erected in the township in 1967 to commemorate the explorer's journey down the Lachlan River.
Booligal, which is Aboriginal for "windy place", is also the home of the Booligal Sheep Races.
For comprehensive travel information on travelling to Booligal, select a category below.
Access interactive maps, photos, video and more for every featured location in Australia.
| Great deals around Australia: | |||||
| |||||
| |||||
| |||||
| |||||
| |||||
| Click here to find more great holiday deals | |||||
2003-2009 PleaseTakeMeTo. All rights reserved. Hosted by Tourism Media.
No part may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright owner.