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List Of Rocks In Western Australia, O-S
This list includes all gazetted rocks, boulders, pinnacles, crags, needles, pillars, rock formations, and tors in Western Australia, both inland and offshore. It does not include monoliths gazetted as mounts or hills, such as Mount Augustus. It is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia.Gazetteer of Australia (1996). Belconnen, ACT: Australian Surveying and Land Information Group. Dubious names have been checked against the online 2004 data, and in all cases confirmed correct. However, if any rocks have been gazetted or deleted since 1996, this list does not reflect these changes. Strictly speaking, Australian place names are gazetted in capital letters only; the names in this list have been converted to mixed case in accordance with normal capitalisation conventions. Locations are as gazetted; some large rock formations may extend over large areas. See List of rocks in Western Australia for more. __TOC__ O P Q R S See also *Geography of Western A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Rock
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Passage Rock
Okol Rocks ( bg, скали Окол, ‘Skali Okol’ ska-'li o-'kol) is a group of rocks in the north of Aitcho Islands group on the west side of English Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The principal feature in the group is ''Lambert Island'' (). ''Passage Rock'' () is lying east of Okol Rocks and west by south of Fort William, Robert Island, with ''Cheshire Rock'' () lying south by east of Passage Rock, southwest of Fort William, northeast of Jorge Island and east-southeast of Okol Rocks. SCAR . The area was visited by early 19th century |
Parker Rock
Parker may refer to: Persons * Parker (given name) * Parker (surname) Places Place names in the United States *Parker, Arizona *Parker, Colorado *Parker, Florida *Parker, Idaho *Parker, Kansas *Parker, Missouri *Parker, North Carolina *Parker, Pennsylvania *Parker, South Carolina *Parker, South Dakota *Parker, Texas in Collin County * Parker, Johnson County, Texas * Parker, Washington * Parker City, Indiana *Parker County, Texas *Parker Dam, at Lake Havasu on the Colorado River between Arizona and California *Parker Road (DART station), a light rail terminal on Parker Road in Plano, Texas * Parker School, Montana * Parker Strip, Arizona *Parker Township, Marshall County, Minnesota *Parker Township, Morrison County, Minnesota *Parker Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania *Parker Center, a former police building in Los Angeles Elsewhere * C. W. Parker Carousel, a Burnaby Village Museum exhibit in British Columbia, Canada * Mount Parker (Philippines), a Mindanao island volcano of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painted Rocks (Western Australia)
Painted Rock or Painted Rocks may refer to: Geographic locations United States *Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California), rock formation *Painted Rock (Tulare County, California) * Painted Rocks State Park, a Montana state park *Yakima Indian Painted Rocks, state park in Washington *Painted Rock Petroglyph Site, archaeological site and BLM facility near Theba, Arizona, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, formerly part of Painted Rock State Park * Painted Rock Mountains, a mountain range in Maricopa County, Arizona * Painted Rock Dam and associated reservoir, Arizona Australia * Painted Rocks (Western Australia), a rock in Western Australia See also * Paint Rock (other) * Painted Desert (other) *Petroglyph *Rock Art or Petrographs *Rock Painting In archaeology, rock art is human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. A high proportion of surviving historic and prehistoric rock art is fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyster Stacks
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of Seawater, salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in Marine (ocean), marine or Brackish water, brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not all oysters are in the superfamily Ostreoidea. Some types of oysters are commonly consumed (cooked or raw), and in some locales are regarded as a delicacy. Some types of pearl oysters are harvested for the pearl produced within the Mantle (mollusc), mantle. Windowpane oysters are harvested for their translucent shells, which are used to make various kinds of decorative objects. Etymology The word ''oyster'' comes from Old French , and first appeared in English during the 14th century. The French derived from the Latin , the feminine form of , which is the Latinisation (literature), latinisation of the Ancient Greek () 'oyster'. Compare () 'bone'. Types True oysters True oysters are members of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oyster Rock (Western Australia)
Oyster Rock is an island in the Mumbai Harbour, Mumbai, India. It is heavily fortified, and owned by the Indian Navy. For a short while, the islet was used as a naval museum. Every time when the Admiral of The Fleet sails out or in with the Naval fleet, a guard of honour is conducted with a 21 gun salute with sailors standing on the entire perimeter of the island. In 2008, the Mumbai Port Trust proposed to set up an International Cruise Terminal at Oyster Rock. However, in 2009, the Indian Navy refused to grant permission citing security concerns in the aftermath of the 2008 Mumbai attacks The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11, pronounced "twenty six eleven") were a series of Terrorism, terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from P .... References Geography of Mumbai Islands of Mumbai Islands of India {{Mumbai-geo-stubthere are no permanent residents that r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overhanging Rock
Overhang may refer to: * Debt overhang, a fiscal situation of a government * Market overhang, a concept in marketing * Monetary overhang, a phenomenon where people have money holdings due to the lack of ability to spend them * Overhang seat, a constituency seat in excess of a party's entitlement * Overhang (architecture), a protruding structure that may provide protection for lower levels, such as overhanging eaves * Overhang (automotive), the part of a road vehicle's length that is outside of the wheelbase * Overhang (rock formation) An overhang is a rock face or artificial climbing wall with a slope of more than 90°, i.e. it slopes beyond the vertical. Particularly severe overhangs that reach, or nearly reach, the horizontal, are referred to as a roof. In climbing, overha ..., part of a rock face that exceeds the vertical See also * Underhang {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outer Rocks
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