Murchison Victoria: The Tiny Australian Riverside Town Where Space Crashed to Earth 🇦🇺

Murchison is a town located on the Goulburn River in Victoria, Australia. The surrounding countryside contains orchards, vineyards and dairy farms. Squatters started settling the area in 1840 with a school being established that year and a police station in 1841. The town grew rapidly, with a post office opening on 19 January 1855 (replacing an earlier office at Warranga), a flour mill in 1858 and a Presbyterian church and school in 1859. Small selectors started settling the area after 1870. A bridge was built over the Goulburn to replace the punt service in 1871, with a newspaper, courthouse and mechanics' institute being established in 1870. The town grew further in 1875 with the arrival of the first paddle steamer. At that time, Murchison had six hotels, a number of general stores, two flour mills including the highly intact Days Mill and Farm at Murchison South, and numerous stores and services. The first Emily Jane paddle steamer was designed specifically to service trade on the Goulburn River from Echuca to Seymour. On her first journey up the Goulburn River, she took 9 hours to come from Mooroopna, arriving in Murchison at 10 pm to the great excitement of the locals. The very next day she passed under the new bridge before before returning to Echuca. In 1878, Murchison became the base for operations against Ned Kelly and his gang. The railway reached Murchison East in 1880 and a second station named Murchison was opened on the line to Rushworth in 1890. Murchison Meteorite: On 28 September 1969 at approximately 10:58 a.m. local time, near Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, a bright fireball was observed to separate into three fragments before disappearing, leaving a cloud of smoke. About 30 seconds later, a tremor was heard. Many fragments were found scattered over an area larger than 13 km2 (5.0 mi2; 3,200 acres), with individual mass up to 7 kilograms (15.4 lb); one, weighing 680 grams (1.5 lb). The total collected mass of the meteorite exceeds 100 kilograms (220 lb). The rocks were analysed at the NASA Ames Research Center where they were discovered to contain the first convincing evidence of amino acids of extraterrestrial origin, supporting the Miller–Urey experiment. The Murchison meteorite samples contained 90 different amino acids, only 19 of which are found on earth. The meteorite has been found to contain the oldest materials known to have reached earth. The Meteorite Park in the centre of Murchison celebrates this discovery. Northern Victoria Goulburn Valley Murchison Victoria Paddle Steamer Murchison Surprised me Murchison Meteorite Victoria Australia Rivers Australia .. We welcome you to comment, share your favourite videos on the channel with friends, click the 'thumbs up' / 'like' button if you enjoyed the video and please click to subscribe; subscribing is COMPLETELY free and helps with our channel. Thank you! ____________________ CHANNEL PLAYLISTS: Channel playlists are available for you to enjoy, these playlists are available at the bottom of the channel page and will be updated soon. Thank you! More videos www.adventurebeatz.com .. You might also enjoy. 🎬 Ned Kelly's Amour, at State Library Victoria    • Armour of Ned Kelly at the State Library o...   🎬 Beveridge Victoria, Childhood home of Ned Kelly    • Beveridge to Glenrowan | Ned Kelly's Child...   🎬 State Library Melbourne Victoria and Ned Kelly's Armour    • State Library Victoria I Melbourne Austral...   🎬 Twin Cities of Albury Wodonga    • Twin Cities of Albury Wodonga I Lake Hume,...   🎬 Corowa NSW    • Corowa New South Wales I Historical Townsh...   🎬 North East Victoria    • North East Victoria and the High Country I...   🎬 Regional Airports of Albury Wodonga, North East and North Central Victoria    • Regional Airports of Albury Wodonga, North...   🎬 The Indigo Shire Victoria    • The Indigo Shire I Historic Springhurst To...   🎬 Chiltern Victoria    • Adventurebeatz | Chiltern | Victoria | Aus...   🎬 Jerilderie NSW    • Adventurebeatz - Jerilderie - Australia   🎬 Wangaratta Victoria    • Historic City of Wangaratta I North East V...   🎬 Murtleford Victoria    • Adventurebeatz | Myrtleford | Alpine Shire...   🎬 Rutherglen Victoria    • Adventurebeatz I Rutherglen l Victoria I W...   🎬 Table Top & Albury NSW I Wodonga and Surrounds I North Eastern Victoria    • Table Top & Albury NSW I Wodonga and Surro...   #australia #history #railway #travel #history #steamrailway #shepparton #echuca #murrayriver #paddlesteamer #goldrush #river #agriculture #kyabram #victoriaaustralia