[1] The locality consists of a river flat known as McBean Pound which included a lagoon called McBean Pond, high ground to the west which is bounded by Boy Scout Road and the portion of the river east of the middle of its channel.

In 1927, Rodney Cockburn, the journalist, described it as "bounded by the stream on one side and on the other by a high cliff, a perfectly natural pound is formed.

Both Cockburn and Manning report that during the 1850s, McBean Pound was “one of the first sites” considered for a railway crossing over the river.

The residential accommodation whose historical use is for “‘holiday’ occupancy” and which is known as a shack site in Australia occupies the eastern side of the river flat and the northern end of the cliff line.

[9] McBean Pound is located within the federal division of Barker, the state electoral district of Chaffey and the local government area of the Mid Murray Council.