page_title: Wellington, South Australia
section_title: Ferry Crossing
hierarchical_section_title: Wellington, South Australia / Ferry Crossing
caption_attribution_description: English: Wellington, South Australia on the bank of the Murray River as it empties into Lake Alexandrina.
context_page_description: Wellington is a township in South Australia, Australia on the Murray River just upstream of where it empties into Lake Alexandrina. Its postcode is 5259. Wellington is in the Rural City of Murray Bridge. At the 2006 census, Wellington had a population of 295.
context_section_description: Wellington was the original crossing of the River Murray for people, livestock, and goods travelling overland between Adelaide and Melbourne, until a bridge was built at Murray Bridge in 1879. There is still a free government ferry operating here. In 1852-53 much of the gold escorted by South Australian Police from the Victorian gold rushes crossed the Murray at Wellington. Even though the Murray has very little flow most of the time, and Lake Alexandrina is mostly only a few metres deep, the river at Wellington is about 25 metres deep. The surface is often less than one metre above sea level.
caption: Wellington on the bank of the Murray just before it empties into Lake Alexandrina
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