On November 16th 1824 the British exploration party led by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell crossed what would later be known as the Murray River at a point where the town of Albury would later be founded.

The expedition was the first European expedition to come across the river. The party had been commissioned by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, to find new grazing land to the south.

Although the river was originally christened the Hume, in 1830 it was called the Murray by Captain Charles Stuart. He did not realise the river he was on was the same one that was crossed by the Hume and Hovell Expedition.

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