Markaranka, South Australia
Markaranka is a locality in the Riverland region of South Australia. It is north of the Murray River near Waikerie, South Australia. The boundaries were set in September 2000 and adjusted on 26 April 2013 to ensure that Westons Flat pastoral run is entirely in Westons Flat and Glenlock Station is entirely in Markaranka. It lies immediately north of the Goyder Highway midway between Morgan Morgan may refer to: People and fictional characters * Morgan (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Morgan le Fay, a powerful witch in Arthurian legend * Morgan (surname), a surname of Welsh origin * Morgan (singer), ... and Barmera. The southern part of the locality contains some orchards, vineyards and improved pasture. The northern part is unimproved grazing land. References Towns in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Waikerie, South Australia
Waikerie ( ) is a rural town in the Riverland region of South Australia on the south bank of the Murray River. At the , Waikerie had a population of 2,684. The Sturt Highway passes to the south of the town at the top of the cliffs. There is a cable ferry crossing the river to provide vehicle access from the north side of the river. Waikerie is known for citrus growing, along with stone fruit and grapes. Background The Ngawait people have inhabited the area for millennia. The river and surrounding land provided everything they could possibly need - fish, shellfish, birds, kangaroos, and native fruits. The town of Waikerie derives its name from Weikari, which is claimed to mean 'the rising'. However some linguistic anthropologists argue that the name refers to the spider creator god from local creation myths.Peter K. Austin ''The Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) Language, northern New South Wales – A Brief History of Research''. James Cook University, 1988. http://www.hrelp.org/aboutu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Morgan, South Australia
Morgan is a town in South Australia on the right bank of the Murray River, just downstream of where it turns from flowing roughly westwards to roughly southwards. It is about north east of Adelaide, and about upstream of the Murray Mouth. At the 2006 census, Morgan had a population of 426. History Several Indigenous names are recorded: Korkoranna for Morgan itself, Koolpoola for the opposite flats, and Coerabko ('Katarapko'), meaning meeting place, for the bend locality. Morgan is in the traditional lands of the Ngaiawang people. Nganguruku people moved to the Morgan area when they lost access to their traditional lands further south. The first Europeans to visit were the expedition of Charles Sturt, who passed by in a rowboat in 1830. The first Europeans to visit overland, by horseback, in March 1838, was the expedition of Hill, Oakden, Willis, and Wood. They noted a large Indigenous population. The locality was originally known to Europeans as the North West Bend, or Nor'wes ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Electoral District Of Chaffey
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are n ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Division Of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith, Kingston SE, Loxton, Lucindale, Mannum, Millicent, Mount Gambier, Murray Bridge, Naracoorte, Penola, Renmark, Robe, Tailem Bend, Waikerie, and parts of Nuriootpa and Tanunda. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Comm ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Taylorville Station, South Australia
Taylorville Station is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about north-east of the Adelaide and about to the north-west of the municipal seat of Renmark. The locality was established on 26 April 2013 in respect to “the long established local name.” Its name is derived from the former pastoral lease of the same name with the addition of the word “Station” to distinguish it from the locality of Taylorville on the north bank of the Murray River 50 km southwest of Taylorville Station. Taylorville Station is located within the federal divisions of Barker and Grey, the state electoral districts of Chaffey and Stuart, the state’s Murray and Mallee region, the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia and partly in the local government area of the District Council of Loxton Waikerie The District Council of Loxton Waikerie is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pooginook, South Australia
__NOTOC__ Pooginook is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state’s east about north-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-west of the municipal seat in Loxton. Pooginook’s boundaries were created on 28 September 2000 for the “local established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Pooginook in which it occupies the south-western corner. The locality is bounded to the south by the middle of the River Murray channel. The boundary with the locality of Taylorville Station to the north was revised in 2013 to “ensure the whole of the Taylorville Pastoral Run is located within the locality of the same name.” Land use within Pooginook is zoned into three categories. Land adjoining the River Murray is zoned as River Murray Flood where development is controlled in response to flooding events and to conserve “natural features” and maintain water quality. Land occupied by the Pooginook Conservati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Taylorville, South Australia
Taylorville is a locality in the Riverland region of South Australia. It is on the north (right) bank of the Murray River opposite Waikerie, South Australia, Waikerie and several smaller settlements. The locality is predominantly between the Goyder Highway and the Murray River, with several small areas on the other side of the highway. Taylorville Road connects the highway to the cable ferry across the river to Waikerie. Land use in Taylorville includes irrigated vineyards and orchards. References Towns in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stuart, South Australia
Stuart is a locality in the Riverland region of South Australia. Nomenclature Stuart gets its name from the Hundred of Stuart, which in turn was named after John McDouall Stuart in 1860. The locality boundary is almost identical to the hundred boundary, except that the southeastern part of the Hundred is in the locality of Taylorville and the southwestern corner of the hundred in the locality of Morgan. Transport Stuart is crossed by the Goyder Highway and bounded on its southern side by the Murray River. Despite the river flowing past the south of the locality, it is in an area of very low rainfall not reliable for farming. No intensive irrigation has been set up in the area. Energy Stuart is the site of ElectraNet's North West Bend electricity substation. If they are constructed, Stuart will be crossed by the Project EnergyConnect Project EnergyConnect is a new electricity transmission line under construction which will connect the South Australia and New South Wales dist ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Westons Flat, South Australia , disambiguation
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Westons or Weston's may refer to: *Weston's Cider, Herefordshire, England *Westons Mill Pond, East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States * Weston's Music Hall, London, England * George Weston Limited, a Canadian food production and distribution company See also *Weston (other) *Weston (surname) Weston as a surname may refer to: * Alf Weston, rugby league footballer of the 1970s * Anthony Weston, philosopher and author * Arthur Weston (priest), Australian Anglican priest * Aylmer Hunter-Weston (1864–1940), British general and politicia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Riverland
The Riverland is a region of South Australia. It covers an area of along the Murray River, River Murray from where it flows into South Australia from New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria downstream to Blanchetown, South Australia, Blanchetown. The major town centres are Renmark, South Australia, Renmark, Berri, South Australia, Berri, Loxton, South Australia, Loxton, Waikerie, South Australia, Waikerie, Barmera, South Australia, Barmera and Monash, South Australia, Monash, and many minor townships. The population is approximately 35,000 people. The Riverland is located about 1.75 to 3 hours (or ) north-east of Adelaide, and 90 minutes west (or ) from Mildura, Victoria via the Sturt Highway. The region has a Mediterranean climate with warm, dry summers and relatively mild winters, and temperatures a few degrees above those of the state capital, Adelaide. The average summer temperature is , with a winter average of and an average rainfall of . History Indigenous ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Murray River
The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: ''Millewa'', Yorta Yorta: ''Tongala'') is a river in Southeastern Australia. It is Australia's longest river at extent. Its tributaries include five of the next six longest rivers of Australia (the Murrumbidgee, Darling, Lachlan, Warrego and Paroo Rivers). Together with that of the Murray, the catchments of these rivers form the Murray–Darling basin, which covers about one-seventh the area of Australia. It is widely considered Australia's most important irrigated region. The Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains, then meanders northwest across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows into South Australia. From an east–west direction it turns south at Morgan for its final , reaching the eastern edge of Lake Alexandrina, which fluctuates in salinity. The water then flows throu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |