Murwillumbah, New South Wales

Murwillumbah
New South Wales

Partial view of town and Tweed River, 2008

Murwillumbah

Coordinates

28°19′39″S 153°23′45″E / 28.32750°S 153.39583°ECoordinates: 28°19′39″S 153°23′45″E / 28.32750°S 153.39583°E

Population

8,523 (2011 census)

Postcode(s)

2484

Elevation

8 m (26 ft)

Location

822 km (511 mi) NE of Sydney
133 km (83 mi) SSE of Brisbane
31 km (19 mi) SW of Tweed Heads
52 km (32 mi) NNW of Byron Bay

Mean max temp	Mean min temp	Annual rainfall
25.8 °C ^{78 °F}	14.4 °C ^{58 °F}	1,570.1 mm ^{61.8 in}

Murwillumbah is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River, 848 km north-east of Sydney, 13 km south of the Queensland border and 132 km south of Brisbane. At the 2011 census, Murwillumbah had a population of 8,523 people. The town's name is often abbreviated to M'bah or Murbah.

Murwillumbah sits on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley. The area is hilly. Many of the buildings are Art Deco in style and there are cafes, clothes and antique shops in the town. Murwillumbah is the eighth town mentioned in the original Australia version of the song "I've Been Everywhere".

The area is used for filming of the British reality series, I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, and has been since 2002. Versions of the show for other countries are also produced in the area. Murwillumbah was also used as the location for the film Lou (2010) starring John Hurt. The ABC television series of the novel Pastures of the Blue Crane was also filmed in the Tweed region in 1969.

The first people to live in the area were Bundjalung people. The name Murwillumbah derives from an Aboriginal word meaning "camping place" – from Murrie, meaning "aboriginal people", Wolli, "a camp"; and Bab, "the place of". Nearby Mount Warning and its attendant national park are known as Wollumbin, meaning "Cloud Catcher", in the Bundjalung language.

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