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Penola may refer to the following: Places ;Antarctica *Penola Island *Penola Strait ;Australia *Penola, South Australia, a town and locality * Penola Conservation Park, a protected area in South Australia *Hundred of Penola, a cadastral unit in South Australia ;United States * Penola, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Virginia Ships * Penola, a sailing ship used for the British Graham Land expedition * SS Penola, a steamship Other *Penola (fly), a genus of flies *Penola Catholic College {{Infobox school , name = Penola Catholic College , image = Pcc Logo.png , country = Australia , type = Private, co-ed, Catholic school, day school , established = 1995 , principal =Mr. Caldow , enrolment = 1,490 , campuses = Broadmead ...
, a secondary school in Victoria, Australia {{disambiguation ...
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Penola Island
Penola Island is a small island in Sherratt Bay lying close off the south coast of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Charted in 1937 by DI personnel on the ''Discovery II ''Discovery II'', built in 1971, is the second of three Discovery sternwheel riverboats operated by the Riverboat Discovery company. ''Discovery II'' is still in use as a tour vessel on the Chena and Tanana rivers near Fairbanks, Alaska. Hist ...'', and named for the '' Penola'', the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) ship which assisted the ''Discovery II'' in the search for a survey party stranded on King George Island in January 1937. See also * List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands Islands of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub ...
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Penola Strait
Penola Strait () is a strait 11 nautical miles (20 km) long and averaging 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide, separating the Argentine Islands, Petermann Island and Hovgaard Island from the west coast of Graham Land. Traversed by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. Led by Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery aboard the RV ''Belgica'', it was the first Belgian Antarctic expedition and is considered the firs ... under Gerlache on 12 February 1898. Named by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, under Rymill, for the expedition ship '' Penola''. Straits of the Wilhelm Archipelago {{WilhelmArchipelago-geo-stub ...
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Penola, South Australia
Penola is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located about southeast of the state capital of Adelaide in the wine growing area known as the Coonawarra. At the , town of Penola had a population of 1,312. It is known as the central location in the life of Mary MacKillop (St. Mary of the Cross), the first Australian to gain Roman Catholic sainthood, in 2010. In 1866 McKillop and a Catholic priest, Julian Tenison-Woods, established a Catholic school in the town. Penola was on the Mount Gambier to Wolseley railway line which opened in 1887, until its closure to freight on 12 April 1995, and then to Limestone Coast Railway tourist passengers on 1 July 2006. History The Aboriginal Australians living in the area when Europeans arrived were the Bindjali people, although this meaning has also been ascribed to Coonawarra by the same source. A different source reports that the Bindjali expression, ''pena oorla'' means "wooden house", which referred to the first pub i ...
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Penola Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Penola Conservation Park (formerly the Penola National Park) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Monbulla about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the town of Penola. The conservation park occupies land in sections 255 and 256 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Monbulla. It is bounded by roads on three sides - Clay Wells Road (also known as the Robe - Penola road) to the south, Searle Road to the east and Rifle Range Road to the west. A wetland called Green Swamp located in its south-west was described in 1990 as “a semi-permanent wetland of approximately ” while in its south-east corner, there is a “small disused quarry.” It originally acquired protected area status as one of two parcels of land proclaimed as a fauna sanctuary on 19 February 1970 under the ''Fauna Conservation Act 1964-1965'' with the other parcel being located in the Hundred of Penola. On 10 Septembe ...
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Hundred Of Penola
The County of Grey is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe and named for former Governor George Grey. It covers the extreme south-east of the state from Penola and Lake George southwards. This includes the following contemporary local government areas of the state: * Wattle Range Council (most part) * District Council of Grant * City of Mount Gambier Hundreds The County of Grey is divided into the following 21 hundreds: * Hundred of Lake George ( Lake George) * Hundred of Symon ( Thornlea) * Hundred of Kennion ( Furner) * Hundred of Short ( Wattle Range) * Hundred of Monbulla ( Monbulla) * Hundred of Penola ( Penola) * Hundred of Rivoli Bay (Beachport) * Hundred of Mount Muirhead ( Millicent) * Hundred of Riddoch (Mount McIntyre) * Hundred of Grey ( Kalangadoo) * Hundred of Nangwarry ( Nangwarry) * Hundred of Mayurra ( Canunda) * Hundred of Hindmarsh (Tantanoola) * Hundred of Young ( Dismal Swamp) * Hundre ...
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Penola, Virginia
Penola is an unincorporated community in Caroline County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. History A post office called Penola was established in 1857, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1961. Penola is a name derived from a Native American language meaning "cotton". It was a stop on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in the nineteenth Century which was replaced by, CSXT CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. .... References Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Caroline County, Virginia 1857 establishments in Virginia {{CarolineCountyVA-geo-stub ...
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SS Penola
SS ''Perth'', formerly SS ''Penola'' was a steamship operated by the Adelaide Steamship Company. ''Penola'' was notable for ramming and sinking , a passenger steamship, in Port Phillip Bay on 19 November 1865. Renamed ''Perth'', the steamship ran aground and was wrecked off Point Cloates Point Cloates (), formerly known as Cloate's Island, is a peninsula approximately 100 kilometres south south-west of North West Cape, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It features Point Cloates Lighthouse and the ruins of a previous li ... in Western Australia on 17 September 1887. See also * List of shipwrecks in 1887 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Penola Ships of South Australia Steamships of Australia Shipwrecks of Western Australia Adelaide Steamship Company 1863 ships Maritime incidents in September 1887 ...
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Penola (fly)
''Penola'' is a genus of fly, flies belonging to the family Sphaeroceridae, lesser dung flies. they are closely related to the genus ''Frutillaria'' from mainland South America Species *''Penola eudyptidis'' (Richards, 1941) Falkland Islands References

Sphaeroceridae Diptera of South America Sphaeroceroidea genera Fauna of the Falkland Islands {{Sphaeroceroidea-stub ...
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