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Cooper Creek (other)
The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is a river in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia. It was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861. It is sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries and is one of three major Queensland river systems that flow into the Lake Eyre basin. The flow of the creek depends on monsoonal rains falling months earlier and many hundreds of kilometres away in eastern Queensland. It is in length. History Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the area for over 20,000 years, with over 25 tribal groups living in the Channel Country area alone. A vast trade network had been established running from north to south, with goods such as ochre sent north, while shells and pituri moved south. Birdsville was once a major meeting place for conducting ceremonies and trade. Charles Sturt named the river in 1845 after Charles Cooper, the Chief Justice of South Australia. It was along Cooper Creek t ...
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Charles Cooper (judge)
Sir Charles Cooper (1795 – 24 May 1887) was the first Chief Justice of South Australia and for two years a politician in the colony of South Australia. Early life and education Charles Cooper was born in 1795 Henley-on-Thames, the third son of Thomas Cooper, under-sheriff of Oxfordshire. He entered the Inner Temple in 1822 and was called to the bar in February 1827. Career Cooper practised on the Oxford circuit until 1838, and was then appointed judge at Adelaide, in the colony of South Australia. He and his sister Sarah Ann Cooper landed there in March 1839 in the ''Katherine Stewart Forbes''. He was for many years the sole judge, then senior judge, of the Supreme Court of South Australia. In June 1856 he was appointed the first South Australian chief justice. In September 1860 was sworn in as a member of the Executive Council of South Australia, which was part of the government in the now self-governing colony. Cooper was regarded as a capable judge who earned t ...
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Charles Sturt
Charles Napier Sturt (28 April 1795 – 16 June 1869) was a British officer and explorer of Australia, and part of the European land exploration of Australia, European exploration of Australia. He led several expeditions into the interior of the continent, starting from Sydney and later from Adelaide. His expeditions traced several of the westward-flowing rivers, establishing that they all merged into the Murray River, which flows into the Southern Ocean. He was searching to prove his own passionately held belief that an "Inland sea (geology), inland sea" was located at the Centre points of Australia, centre of the continent. He reached the rank of Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Captain, served in several appointed posts, and on the Legislative Council. Born to British parents in the Bengal Presidency, Sturt was educated in England for a time as a child and youth. He was placed in the British Army because his father was not wealthy enough to pay for Cambridge. After as ...
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Lake Yamma Yamma
Lake Yamma Yamma is an ephemeral lake on the Cooper Creek system in the arid Channel Country of south-western Queensland, Australia. The lake, which is sometimes called Lake Mackillop, is the largest inland ephemeral lake in Queensland. Description The lake only holds water following major floods on Cooper Creek. When filled the lake covers . It fills to capacity only about once every 25–30 years, most recently in 2000. The lake waters are fresh immediately after filling, but become increasingly saline as the lake dries out. When dry, the lake bed's cracking grey clay soils support extensive grasslands dominated by rat's tail couch. Several ephemeral forbs grow among the couch following rain or minor flooding. The north-eastern section supports open lignum shrubland with patches of open woodland dominated by coolabah and Belalie.BirdLife International. (2011.) Important Bird Areas factsheet: Lake Yamma Yamma. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 02/08/2011. Birds ...
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Depression (geology)
In geology, a depression is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions form by various mechanisms. Types Erosion-related: * Blowout (geomorphology), Blowout: a depression created by Aeolian processes, wind erosion typically in either a partially vegetated Dune, sand dune ecosystem or dry soils (such as a post-glacial loess environment). * Glacial valley: a depression carved by erosion by a glacier. * River valley: a depression carved by fluvial erosion by a river. * Area of subsidence caused by the collapse of an underlying structure, such as sinkholes in karst terrain. * Sink (geography), Sink: an endorheic depression generally containing a wikt:persistent, persistent or intermittent (seasonal) lake, a Salt pan (geology), salt flat (playa) or dry lake, or an ephemeral lake. * Panhole: a shallow depression or basin eroded into flat or gently sloping, cohesive rock.Twidale, C.R., and Bourne, J.A., 2018Rock basins (gnammas) revisited.''Géomorphologie: ...
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Ephemeral
Ephemerality (from the Greek word , meaning 'lasting only one day') is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly. Academically, the term ephemeral constitutionally describes a diverse assortment of things and experiences, from digital media to types of streams. "There is no single definition of ephemerality". With respect to unique performances, for example, it has been noted that " hemerality is a quality caused by the ebb and flow of the crowd's concentration on the performance and a reflection of the nostalgic character of specific performances". Because different people may value the passage of time differently, ephemerality may be a relative, perceptual concept: "In brief, what is short-lived may not be the object itself, but the attention we afford it".Ronald Beiner, ''Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters'' (2014), p. 10. Ephemerality and nature Geographical features An ephemeral stream is that which only exists following precipitation. ...
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Tambo, Queensland
Tambo is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. Cattle and tourism are the major industries of the town. A number of heritage buildings survive from the earliest days of settlement. In the , the population of the locality was 318 people, while the population of the town was 283 people. Geography Tambo is in Central West Queensland, Australia, on the banks of the Barcoo River. Tambo is southeast of the town of Blackall, Queensland, Blackall via the Landsborough Highway, north of Augathella, north of Charleville, Queensland, Charleville, north west of Toowoomba and approximately north west of the state capital, Brisbane. The Barcoo River runs through the town and sits near the Grey Range – part of the "Roof of Queensland" section of the Great Dividing Range. The Landsborough Highway—part of the National Highway (Australia), National Highway network linking Brisbane and Darwin, Northern Territory, ...
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Charters Towers, Queensland
Charters Towers is a rural town in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It is by road south-west from Townsville on the Flinders Highway, Queensland, Flinders Highway. During the last quarter of the 19th century, the town boomed as the rich gold deposits under the city were developed. After becoming uneconomical in the 20th century, profitable Mining in Australia, mining operations have commenced once again. In the , the town of Charters Towers had a population of 8,040 people. Geography The urban area of the town of Charters Towers includes its suburbs: Charters Towers City, Queensland, Charters Towers City (the centre of the city); Richmond Hill, Queensland, Richmond Hill, Toll, Queensland, Toll, and Columbia, Queensland, Columbia to the north, Queenton, Queensland, Queenton to the east, Grand Secret, Queensland, Grand Secret and Alabama Hill, Queensland, Alabama Hill to the west, and Towers Hill, Queensland, Towers Hill, Mosman Park, Queensland, Mosman Park, a ...
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Longreach, Queensland
Longreach is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Longreach Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Longreach Region, Longreach Local government in Australia, Regional Council, which was established in 2008 as a merger of the former Shire of Longreach, Longreach, Shire of Ilfracombe, Ilfracombe, and Shire of Isisford, Isisford shires. Longreach is a well known tourist destination due to its aviation history and importance. In the , the locality of Longreach had a population of 3,124. Geography Longreach is in Central West Queensland, approximately from the coast, west of Rockhampton. The town is on the Tropic of Capricorn in the south-east of the locality. The town is named after the ‘long reach’ of the Thomson River (Queensland), Thomson River on which it is situated. Lochern National Park is in the south-western part of the locality (formerly in Vergemont, Queensland, Vergemont). The main industries of th ...
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Thomson River, Queensland
The Thomson River is a perennial river that forms part of the Lake Eyre Basin, situated in the central west and western regions of Queensland, Australia. Much of the course of the river comprises a series of narrow channels synonymous with the Channel Country and the Galilee subregion. The river was named in 1847 by the explorer, Edmund Kennedy, in honour of The Hon. Sir Edward Deas Thomson , the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales at the time of discovery. History Kuungkari (also known as Kungkari and Koonkerri) is a language of Western Queensland. The Kuungkari language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council. Course and features Draining the Alma Range, part of the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, the northernmost headwaters of the river begin as Torrens Creek, inland from Charters Towers. The watercourse becomes the Thomson just north of the town of Muttaburra, where ...
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Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills. It runs roughly parallel to the east coast of Australia and forms the fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is mainland Australia's most substantial topographic feature and serves as the definitive watershed for the river systems in eastern Australia, hence the name. The Great Dividing Range stretches more than from Dauan Island in the Torres Strait off the northern tip of Cape York Peninsula, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through Queensland and New South Wales, then turning west across Victoria before finally fading into the Wimmera plains as rolling hills west of the Grampians region. The width of the Range varies from about to over .Shaw, John H., ...
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The Recorder (Port Pirie)
''The Recorder'' is a newspaper published in Port Pirie, South Australia since 1885. Formed by an amalgamation in 1898, it was also previously known as ''Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail'' between 1898 and 1918, and as ''The Recorder'' from 1919. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. ''The Recorder'' is published once a week, Thursday, and is part of the Australian Community Media (ACN) network. Like other ACN publications, the newspaper is also available online. History The town, later city, of Port Pirie had two newspapers, ''The Port Pirie Advocate and Areas News'', published weekly from 21 March 1885, (later simplified to ''The Port Pirie Advocate'' (1895-1898)), and ''The Port Pirie Standard'' ''and Barrier Advertiser'', published weekly from 4 January 1889. They amalgamated to form ''The Port Pirie Recorder'' ''and North Western Mail'', first published on 9 ...
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Australian Geographic
Australian Geographic is a media business that produces the ''Australian Geographic'' and Australian Geographic Adventure magazine, australiangeographic.com.au and operates, either itself or business partners, Australian Geographic stores, Australian Geographic Travel and various other businesses. ''Australian Geographic'' magazine, originally titled ''Dick Smith's Australian Geographic'', is a bi-monthly geographical journal created by Dick Smith in 1986. The magazine focuses mainly on stories about Australia, or about Australian people in other countries. The six editions published each year are available by subscription and on newsstands. They include posters or sheet maps in each edition, as well as photographs and detailed technical illustrations. The entire Australian Geographic magazine archive is available on its website to subscribers. The profits earned by Australian Geographic Holdings are contributed the Australian Geographic Society which is a registered Austr ...
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