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Wagga Wagga (/ˈwɒɡəˈwɒɡə/[4] wog-ə wog-ə; informally called Wagga) is a city in New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, with an urban population of 46,913 people, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, and is an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia. It is midway between the two largest cities in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne, and is the major regional centre for the Riverina and South West Slopes regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagga_Wagga

Mark Twain and party stopped here, en route to Melbourne from Sydney,
"The air was balmy and delicious, the sunshine radiant; it was a charming excursion. In the course of it we came to a town whose odd name was famous all over the world a quarter of a century ago—Wagga-Wagga. This was because the Tichborne Claimant had kept a butcher-shop there. It was out of the midst of his humble collection of sausages and tripe that he soared up into the zenith of notoriety and hung there in the wastes of space a time, with the telescopes of all nations leveled at him in unappeasable curiosity—curiosity as to which of the two long-missing persons he was: Arthur Orton, the mislaid roustabout of Wapping, or Sir Roger Tichborne, the lost heir of a name and estates as old as English history."

"The train did indeed go through Wagga-Wagga, but since that town is in New South Wales, it would have passed through around midnight. Twain apparently kept no notes on this train trip, and therefore he would have been relying on his memory when writing the seven pages of "More Tramps Abroad" about the Tichborne claimant....
This tale of intrigue, though repeated at length in his travel book, is, after all, not used to give a lesson in geography but rather to substantiate the axiom that truth is stranger than fiction,..."
(Shillingsburg p 58)

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