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Sweetberry's Goondiwindi Page

by Sweetberry1 - last update: Jul 6, 2003

Goondiwindi

Goondiwindi is located 370 kilometers west of Brisbane, and is the border town between Queensland and New South Wales.

Settled in the 1840's by pastoralists, Goondiwindi emerged in the latter half of the 19th century as an important administrative and commercial centre.
Goondiwindi is named after the Aboriginal name for "Resting Place of the Birds". The town's major rural products include wheat, cotton, beef and wool. Cotton being the biggest of these, I would imagine.

Goondiwindi is situated on the McIntyre River... and on the junction of five major inland highways. The Barwon, Newell, Cunningham, Leichardt and Bruxner...
The Newell Highway, being the major route from Queensland to Victoria... and the Highway that I have travelled more times than I can remember. A drive of just over 2000 kilometers.

Approxiamtly 5,000 people reside in the town with a further 6,000 in the surrounding Waggamba Shire.

By the way, Goondiwindi is affectionately known as 'Gundy'... and is pronounced as Gundiwindi...

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Comments for Sweetberry1 about Goondiwindi
matcrazy1 Fri Nov 10, 2006 22:19 UTC
 Well, someday I will stop in Goondiwindi during my hopefully very loong drive across Australia :-)
Daja123 Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:34 UTC
 Another interesting page Susie as always, lots of great information. Well done.
kenHuocj Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:08 UTC
 should have visited Oz when i was in the same latitudes as you, but hwo knows ;-)))
laughingsun69 Sun Nov 16, 2003 09:43 UTC
 You dont miss much the amount of times ive been here the best i ever see is the truck stop good job ;)
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