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List Of Watercourses In Western Australia, B
Western Australia has many watercourses with gazetted names, including rivers, streams, brooks, creeks, gullies, anabranches and backwaters. This list 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 watercourses 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 capitalization conventions. Locations are as gazetted; some watercourses may extend over long distances. B See also *Geography of Western Australia Western Australia occupies nearly one third of the Australian continent. Due to the size and the isolation of the state, considerable emphasis has been ... [...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] |
Bally Bally Gully
Bally may refer to: Places *Bally, a historical spelling of Bali *Bally (from the Irish ''baile'') or townland, a traditional division of land, as well as a common prefix in the names of settlements throughout Ireland *Bally, Bally-Jagachha, a census town in Howrah district, West Bengal, India *Bally, Howrah, a city in Howrah district, West Bengal, India *Bally, Pennsylvania, a borough in the U.S. *Bally Creek, a stream in Minnesota *Bally Jagachha, a community development block in Howrah district, West Bengal, India People *Albert W. Bally (fl. 1988), American geologist *Charles Bally (1865–1947), Swiss linguist *Étienne Bally (1923–2018), French sprinter *Elena Baltacha (born 1983), British tennis player nicknamed Bally *Bally Sagoo (born 1971), British-Indian singer and DJ *Ralph Sharman (1895-1918), professional baseball player nicknamed Bally Companies *Bally (fashion house), Swiss fashion house founded in 1851 *Bally Manufacturing, later known as Bally Entertainment, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balley Balley Brook
The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of History of New Zealand, New Zealand. The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere. Under Wakefield's model, the colony would attract capitalists who would then have a ready supply of labour—migrant labourers who could not initially afford to be property owners, but who would have the expectation of one day buying land with their savings. The New Zealand Company established settlements at Wellington, Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson, Wanganui and Dunedin and also became involved in the settling of New Plymouth and Christchurch. It reached the peak of efficiency about 1841, encountered financial problems from 1843 from which it never recovered, and wound up in 1858. This list details the various ships used by the Company in estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balla Balla River
Balla Balla River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The river rises on the southern side of Yirrakulanna Hills and flows in a north-easterly direction crossing the North West Coastal Highway near the Stranger mine at Whim Creek then finally discharging into Balla Balla harbour, near Depuch Island in the Indian Ocean. The river is ephemeral and can be completely dry in the summer months, but during periodic flood events the water level can rise over . The riparian vegetation is dominated by river red gums. The river has three tributary, tributaries, Whim Creek, Louden Creek and Caporn Creek. The river name was recorded in 1878 by John Forrest, who was surveying the area at the time. The name is believed to be Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal in origin and is thought to come from the Kanyarra word ''Parla'', which means mud. The traditional owners of the area are the Ngarluma people, who inhabited the region around the Balla Balla, the Maitland River, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ball Creek (Australia)
Ball Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is a tributary to Talking Rock Creek. Ball Creek was named for the indigenous North American stickball once played in the area by Native Americans. References Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state) Rivers of Gilmer County, Georgia Rivers of Pickens County, Georgia {{GeorgiaUS-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balgarup River
Balgarup River is a river in Western Australia that has its headwaters south-east of Kojonup, Western Australia, Kojonup just below Byenup Hill. The river flows is a north-westerly direction crossing Albany Highway south of Kojonup, Western Australia, Kojonup then through the town of Muradup, Western Australia, Muradup and continues in the north-west direction until it joins the Blackwood River of which it is a tributary. The only tributary to the Balgarup river is Mandalup Brook. The name originated from Australian Aborigines, Aborigine language and is thought to mean "place of the Xanthorrhoea preissii, Blackboy trees". The first person to chart the river was surveyor Alfred Hillman in 1840. References Blackwood River Rivers of the South West region {{WesternAustralia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
