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Encyclopedia > Albury

Albury is the name of several places:


Australia:

United Kingdom:

  • Albury, Hertfordshire, England
  • Albury, Surrey, England

Canada:


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Albury, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (742 words)
Albury serves as an administrative centre for the agricultural communities around the area, and the city is the home of a large newsprint paper mill which processes the pine logs planted in the mountains to the east, an engineering plant which produces automatic transmissions for cars, and other smaller secondary industries.
Albury is a stronghold of Australian rules football; further north rugby league is the main winter sport.
Albury is the largest city in the Federal electorate of Farrer, of which the current representative is Sussan Ley of the Liberal Party, and the local state electorate of Albury, currently represented by Greg Aplin, also of the Liberal Party.
Encyclopedia: Albury, Australia (654 words)
Albury is a small city located on the northern side of the Murray River, in New South Wales.
It is separated by the Murray from its twin city in Victoria, railway changeover at the Albury station was the busiest in Australia, and the longest railway platform in the Southern hemisphere was built to deal with the traffic due to the change of gauges between Victoria and New South Wales.
The region surrounding Albury provides a wide variety of tourist attractions, including the wineries of Rutherglen, the historic goldfields towns of Beechworth and Yackandandah, boating and fishing on the many rivers and lakes (activities very popular with the locals), the forests of the Great Dividing Range and slightly further afield many of Australia's snowfields.
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