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Barkly Tableland
The Barkly Tableland is a rolling plain of grassland in Australia. It runs from the eastern part of the Northern Territory into western Queensland. It is one of the five regions in the Northern Territory and covers , 21% of the Northern Territory. The Barkly Tableland runs parallel to the southern shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria, from about Mount Isa, Queensland to near Daly Waters. History William Landsborough was the first non-Indigenous Australian person to explore the tableland, and named it after Sir Henry Barkly, then governor of Victoria. In 1877 the overlander, Nathaniel Buchanan and Sam Croker crossed the Barkly Tableland and rode on to the Overland Telegraph Line opening new land for settlement. It was not until the introduction of generous leasing arrangements on the Barkly in the late 1870s that the region became more settled. In 1883, Harry Readford, one of the inspirations for the literary character Captain Starlight, drove a mob of cattle to the Barkly and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Barkly
Barkly is an electoral division of the Legislative Assembly in Australia's Northern Territory. It was first created in 1974, and is named after the Barkly Tableland area, which occupies much of the electorate. Barkly is a rural electorate, covering 442,868 km² and taking in the towns of Tennant Creek, Borroloola, Ali Curung, Warrego, Tara Aboriginal Community and Alpururulam. There were 5,690 people enrolled in the electorate as of August 2020. Barkly was created along with the creation of the Assembly in 1974 as a conservative-leaning marginal seat centred on the town of Tennant Creek. It was won at that election by Country Liberal Party candidate Ian Tuxworth, who later became a high-profile Cabinet minister and served as Chief Minister from 1984 to 1986. Tuxworth was comfortably re-elected as a CLP member in 1977, 1980 and 1983, but faced an extremely close race in 1987 after he quit the CLP in order to head the rival conservative NT Nationals party. He won a narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunette Downs Station
Brunette Downs Station, mostly referred to as Brunette Downs, is a pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Location Brunette Downs Station is located in the Northern Territory about north-east of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Tennant Creek and about north west of Camooweal in Queensland. It is bounded by Rockhampton Downs Station to the west, Alroy Downs to the south, Mittiebah Station, Mittiebah and Alexandria Station (Northern Territory), Alexandria Station to the east and Cresswell Downs to the north. The ephemeral waterways Playford River (Northern Territory), Playford River, Brunette Creek, Cresswell Creek and Boree Creek all flow through the property. The Tablelands Highway bisects Brunette Downs. Description The station occupies an area of on the Barkly Tableland, and is currently owned by the Australian Agricultural Company. It is the second largest station in the Northern Territory (after Alexandria Station (No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders River
The Flinders River is the longest river in Queensland, Australia, at approximately . It was named in honour of the explorer Matthew Flinders. The catchment is sparsely populated and mostly undeveloped. The Flinders rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in North West Queensland and flows generally north-west through the Gulf Country, across a large, flat clay pan, before entering the Gulf of Carpentaria. Course and features The River rises in the Burra Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, north-east of Hughenden and flows in a westerly direction past Hughenden, Richmond and Julia Creek, then north-west to the Gulf of Carpentaria west of . The catchment is bordered to the south by the Selwyn Range. At in length, it is the eighth-longest river in Australia. The catchment covers . The primary land use in the catchment is grazing and other agriculture, the catchment covers 1.5% of the continent. A total of 36 tributaries flow into the Flinders, the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mueller Plateau
Mueller may refer to: People * Mueller (surname), a surname German in origin Places Antarctica * Mount Mueller (Antarctica) Australia * Mueller College, in Queensland * Mount Mueller (Victoria) *Mueller Park, in Western Australia * Mueller River (Victoria) New Zealand *Mueller Glacier * Mueller River United States * Mueller Bridge, near La Vernia, Texas * Mueller Homestead, in Utica, South Dakota *Mueller State Park, in Colorado * Mueller Tower, in Lincoln, Nebraska * Mueller Township, Michigan *Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, an airport serving Austin, Texas, prior to the construction of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport **Mueller Community, a planned community on the former site of the airport Extraterrestrial * 4031 Mueller, an asteroid * 120P/Mueller, a comet *136P/Mueller, a comet * 173P/Mueller, a comet Companies * C.F. Mueller Company, an American pasta company *Hengeler Mueller, a German law firm * Mueller Industries, an American manufacturing company of metal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Shield
The Australian Shield, also called the Western Australian Shield, is a geological feature known as a shield that occupies more than half of the continent of Australia. The word shield is used because it refers to ancient, molten rock which has cooled and solidified. The Australian Shield has a characteristic depth of and an estimated age of 2.8 to 3.5 billion years. In places younger sedimentary rock covers the shield's Precambrian surface. Extent It occupies the portion of Australia west of a line running north–south roughly from the eastern shore of Arnhem Land on the Bay or Gulf of Carpentaria to the Eyre Peninsula in the state of South Australia, and skirting to the west of the Simpson Desert in the interior. The plateau has an average elevation of between . The shield is fractured into a number of distinct blocks, including two cratons - the Pilbara Craton in the North and the Yilgarn Craton in the Southwest. These two cratons are the oldest part of the shield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunette Downs
Brunette Downs Station, mostly referred to as Brunette Downs, is a pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Location Brunette Downs Station is located in the Northern Territory about north-east of Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Tennant Creek and about north west of Camooweal in Queensland. It is bounded by Rockhampton Downs Station to the west, Alroy Downs to the south, Mittiebah Station, Mittiebah and Alexandria Station (Northern Territory), Alexandria Station to the east and Cresswell Downs to the north. The ephemeral waterways Playford River (Northern Territory), Playford River, Brunette Creek, Cresswell Creek and Boree Creek all flow through the property. The Tablelands Highway bisects Brunette Downs. Description The station occupies an area of on the Barkly Tableland, and is currently owned by the Australian Agricultural Company. It is the second largest station in the Northern Territory (after Alexandria Station (No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkly Tableland Map
Barkly may refer to : Places Australia Northern Territory * Barkly Tableland, one of the five regions in the Northern Territory * Barkly Highway, a national highway of both Queensland and Northern Territory * Electoral division of Barkly, a rural electorate * Barkly Region, a local government area Queensland * Barkly, Queensland, an outback locality within the City of Mount Isa Victoria * Barkly, Victoria, a town in the Pyrenees Shire South Africa * Barkly East, a South Africa town * Barkly West, Northern Cape, a town in South Africa Other * Henry Barkly (1815–1898), a British politician and colonial governor * Anne Maria Barkly (1837-1892) botanist and governor's 2nd wife * West Barkly languages The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory, Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a d ..., a small languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walhallow Station
Walhallow Station also once known as Walhallow Downs often just referred to as Walhallow is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Location It is located about north west of Elliott and north east of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Walhallow shares a boundary to the north with Mallapunyah Station, to the south and east with Cresswell Downs, and to the south and west with Anthony Lagoon. Description Occupying an area of of open plains, mitchell grass downs, coolabah woodland and spinifex desert situated on the Barkly Tableland. The station has a carrying capacity of 50,000 head of Brahman cattle. The neighbouring property to the south is Anthony Lagoon. History The first Europeans to explore the area, which was Kotandji land , were Ernest Favenc and Nathaniel Buchanan who conducted expeditions around the Barkly Tableland area in 1878. The property was first settled by John Bassett and William Christian in 1881 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mittiebah Station
Mittiebah Station, mostly referred to as Mittiebah, is a pastoral lease operating as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia. Mittiebah Station is located about east of Tennant Creek and north west of Camooweal (Queensland), in the Northern Territory. The property shares a boundary to the south with Alexandria Station, to the west with Brunette Downs Station, to the north with Benmarra Station and to the east with both Mount Drummond Station and Waanyi-Garawa Aboriginal Land Trust. The station occupies an area of on the Barkly Tableland. The Playford River runs through the property, which encompasses a wide range of types from Rangeland to open plains of Mitchell Grass. Mount Morgan is on the property. the station is owned by the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAPCo), which acquired the property in 2001. The station had already been owned by the company once before when it was part of Alexandria Station, before being resumed by the Northern Territory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria Station (Northern Territory)
Alexandria Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station and is the Northern Territory's largest pastoral property and Australia's third largest pastoral property after Anna Creek station and Clifton Hills Station. Location It is located about north west of Camooweal and east of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. Alexandria shares a boundary to the west with Alroy Downs and Brunette Downs Station, to the north with Mittiebah and Mount Drummond Station, to the south with West Ranken, East Ranken, Adder and Rocklands Stations and to the east with the Queensland border. Several ephemeral waterway cross the property including the Buchanan river, Ranken River, Buchanan Creek, Cigarette Hole Creek and other smaller tributaries. The South Barkly Stock Route crosses the property at the south west corner. Description Occupying an area of of open plains, floodplain and wooded sandhills situated on the Barkly Tableland and was established prior to 1877. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattle Station
In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle station in the world is Anna Creek Station in South Australia, which covers an area of . Improvements Each station has a homestead where the property owner or the manager lives. Nearby cottages or staff quarters provide housing for the employees. Storage sheds and cattle yards are also sited near the homestead. Other structures depend on the size and location of the station. Isolated stations will have a mechanic's workshop, schoolroom, a small general store to supply essentials, and possibly an entertainment or bar area for the owners and staff. Water may be supplied from a river, bores or dams, in conjunction with rainwater tanks. Nowadays, if rural mains power is not connected, electricity is typically provided by a generator, although sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
