Merungle Hill, New South Wales — interactive Google street map, satellite and terrain views, Street View, live local weather conditions and 7-day forecasts, real-time local and world news, and an editorial description of Merungle Hill, in the Leeton Shire Council local government area.
| Locality | Merungle Hill |
| State | New South Wales (NSW) |
| Local Government Area | Leeton Shire Council |
| Country | Australia |
| Timezone | Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT) |
| Remoteness | Outer Regional Australia |
| Latitude | -34.61849 |
| Longitude | 146.47309 |
| Population | 261 |
| Density | 6.2 /km² |
| Area | 42.4 km² |
| Elevation | 155 m |
| Postcode | 2705 |
| Area Code | 02 |
| Distance to Sydney | 443 km west-southwest |
Merungle Hill is a locality in the Leeton Shire Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It is a small community with a population of 261. The locality covers an area of 42.4 km², giving a population density of about 6.2 people per km². It sits at an elevation of around 155 m above sea level. It lies approximately 443 km west-southwest of Sydney. Merungle Hill is located at 34.6185°S, 146.4731°E. It observes Australian Eastern Time (AEST/AEDT). Postcode: 2705. The Australian Bureau of Statistics classifies the area as Outer Regional Australia.
Merungle Hill rises gently from the flat Murrumbidgee plains, a low, scrub-covered massif that stands as a quiet sentinel against the vast, open sky. It lies 54.8 km south-east of Griffith, NSW (from Griffith, NSW: bearing 134°T), and is situated 12.3 km west-north-west of Narrandera. The land here is a study in muted colours – ochre earth, the dusty greens of hardy saltbush and sparse mallee, and the pale, bleached trunks of scattered ghost gums. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a dry warmth, a scent of sun-baked earth and the faint, sweet perfume of wild herbs crushed underfoot. The silence, when it descends, is profound, broken only by the whisper of wind through dry grasses or the distant call of a bird.
This rise, though modest in elevation, holds echoes of a time when the land was shaped by different hands and aspirations. Merungle Hill’s story is intertwined with the broader narrative of irrigation and agricultural settlement that transformed this part of the Riverina. It’s a place where the bounty of the land, coaxed from the soil through the ingenuity of canals and channels, forms the bedrock of the local economy, primarily through the cultivation of rice and citrus. The nearby town of Leeton, a neighbour carved from the wilderness, owes much of its existence to the vision that harnessed the Murrumbidgee’s flow, and Merungle Hill, in its own quiet way, has witnessed this unfolding prosperity, the subtle hum of machinery a modern counterpoint to the enduring stillness of the landscape.
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This page provides an interactive Google map of Merungle Hill, New South Wales with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorially written description provides background on Merungle Hill, in the Leeton Shire Council local government area.
Detailed location data for Merungle Hill includes the postcode (2705), telephone area code (02), and local government area (Leeton Shire Council), with an ABS remoteness classification of Outer Regional Australia. These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Australian city, town or locality.
Location data is drawn from Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020) and enriched with GeoNames and Australian Bureau of Statistics data, matched by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Merungle Hill is identified even where the name is shared across multiple localities.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (GDA2020); enriched with GeoNames and ABS 2021 Census data, matched by coordinate proximity |
| Description | Editorial description generated with AI assistance from verified Geoscape, ABS and GeoNames location data. |