Tailem Bend is a town on the Murray River

Murray River

The Murray River is Australia's longest river. At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between New South Wales and Victoria as it...

 in South Australia

South Australia

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. The town was proclaimed in 1887, the year after the main railway came through. At the 2006 census

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, Tailem Bend had a population of 1,457.

The name is a corruption of the aboriginal name tailem which was used for the area. The word means bend and is associated with the sharp bend that the Murray River makes in this location.

It is located about 100 km south-east of Adelaide

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