Bourke - Old riverboat wharf
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Bourke, NSW, Australia
Category: Historic
The old riverboat wharf at Bourke on the Darling River, NSW, Australia. By the mid 1850s, Bourke was a thriving community and a vital transport node along the Darling River. For decades the town was the transport centre for the whole of south west Queensland and western New South Wales. Its port was the only efficient way to transport wool to the coastal market, and at its height in the late 1900s, over 40,000 bales of wool were being shipped down the Darling annually.
