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Purga Division, March 1902
Purga may refer to several places: * Purga, Estonia * Purga, Queensland Purga is a rural locality in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Purga had a population of 576 people. Geography Purga is on the outskirts of Ipswich. The western boundary of Purga follows Warrill Creek. Road infrastructure ... * Purga, Slovenia * The Siberian subtype of the '' Buran'' wind of the Asian interior * Purga-class icebreaker, type of ship operated by the Russian Coast Guard {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purga, Queensland
Purga is a rural locality in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Purga had a population of 576 people. Geography Purga is on the outskirts of Ipswich. The western boundary of Purga follows Warrill Creek. Road infrastructure Ipswich – Boonah Road (State Route 93) runs through from north-east to south-east. History The area was named after the parish which was derived from the Aboriginal word ''pur-pur'', meaning ''a meeting place''. Purga Creek State School was opened on 1 September 1871. It was renamed Purga State School about 1945. It closed in 1967. It was at 68 Purga School Road (). Residents in the Fassifern Valley petitioned the Queensland Government to build a railway line to their district, and the first section of the Dugandan railway line The Dugandan railway line was a branch railway in the Scenic Rim region of South East Queensland, Australia. It was also known as the Fassifern railway line. It operated from 1882 to 1964. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buran (wind)
The buran ( fa, بوران, russian: буран) is a wind which blows across Iran, eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Over the tundra, it is also known as , purga. It is a wind of cold air, sometimes very strong, characteristic of the steppes of the Sarmatic Plain, to the west of the Urals. The buran takes two forms: in summer, it is a hot, dry wind, whipping up sandstorms; in winter, it is bitterly cold and often accompanied by blizzards. Winter buran winds are strong and full of ice and snow. The sky is often laden with snow, which swirls about and reduces the visibility to near zero at times. In Alaska this severe northeasterly wind is known as ''burga'' and brings snow and ice pellets. The Soviet space programme named a class of spacecraft after the buran (see Buran programme). See also *Dust storm *N'aschi *Shamal (wind) A shamal ( ar, شمال, 'north') is a northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states (including Saudi Arabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
