Place Type
Camps & Accom - Camp Free
Location
464.34kms NorthEast of Adelaide
651.17kms North of Melbourne
697.1kms NorthWest of Canberra
Address & Contact
LOT 5161 Steve Hutton Rd
Menindee New South Wales 2879
Phone: +618 8091 4274
Email: N/A
Web: https://www.centraldarling.nsw.gov.au/about-the-shire/towns-within-the-shire/things-to-see-and-do-in-menindee.aspx
Information
Camp site below levee holding back Lake Pamamaroo. So no water views but close to fishing hole at lake outlet.
On the Pamamaroo Creek is the site of the base camp of the 1860 Burke and Wills expedition. The expedition party included 15 men, 23 horse, 27 camels and 21 tons of stores. At the time of Burke's arrival in Menindee it was an outpost with no other settlements between here and the vast interior. On 19 October the small party of Burke, Wills, Brahe, King, Gray, McDonagh, Patton and Dost Mahomet, 15 horses and 16 camels left the Pamamaroo camp and headed north.