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Blanchetown is a small town located just off the Sturt Highway where it crosses the Murray River and along with Morgan to the north, forms the western edge of the Riverland region in South Australia. The town also marks the first of the series of Locks along the Murray River which control the waterflow. The town itself has very little on offer except for a hotel, store, service centres on the Sturt Hwy and a neat riverside park adjacent to Lock 1.

• Population: 307 1
• Postcode: 5357
• Location: 133 km northeast of Adelaide
• Main Roads: Sturt Hwy A20
• Radio Stations: FM: ABC Classic (105.1 MHz), ABC News on Radio (93.9 MHz), Magic 93.1 (93.1 MHz) and Triple J (101.9 MHz). AM: 5RM (801 kHz), ABC North and West SA (639 kHz), ABC Radio Adelaide (891 kHz), ABC Riverland (1062 kHz), ABC RN (1305 kHz) and ABC Wimmera (594 kHz)

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	Murray River: Murray Riverside Park with the Sturt Hwy bridge in the distance, Blanchetown, December 2003. Image © Michael Greenslade
	Lock 1: Looking north-east across Lock 1 and the Murray River, Blanchetown, December 2003. Image © Michael Greenslade
	Blanchetown: The Blanchetown Hotel with the Murray River floodplains in the background, December 2003. Image © Michael Greenslade

1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2016 Census Quickstats

Last updated: 08 Nov 2019 01:09

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