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Shire Of Boulia
The Shire of Boulia is a local government area in Central West Queensland, bordering the Northern Territory. Its administrative centre is in the town of Boulia.It covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity since 1887. The main industry in the shire is beef production. The shire is known for the unexplained phenomenon of the Min Min light, a light that has been reported to follow travellers in the area for some distance before disappearing. On its logo, the Shire has the motto ''E pluribus unum''. History '' Waluwarra'' (also known as ''Warluwarra'', ''Walugara'', and ''Walukara'') is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Queensland. Its traditional language region is the local government area of Shire of Boulia, including Walgra Station and Wolga, from Roxborough Downs north to Carandotta Station and Urandangi on the Georgina River, on Moonah Creek to Rochedale, south-east of Pituri Creek. The Boulia Division was established on 24 September 1887. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waluwarra Language
Warluwarra is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Waluwarra (also known as ''Warluwarra'', ''Walugara'', and ''Walukara'') has a traditional language region in the local government area of Shire of Boulia, including Walgra Station and Wolga, from Roxborough Downs north to Carandotta Station and Urandangi on the Georgina River, on Moonah Creek to Rochedale, south-east of Pituri Creek. Classification R. M. W. Dixon (2002) places Warluwara in the Southern Ngarna subgroup, along with Wagaya, Yindjilandji, and Bularnu. This is in turn related to Yanyuwa. Sign The Warluwara The Waluwara were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. Language The ethnonym of the people comes from the name for their language, Warluwarra, which is classified as one of the Ngarna languages. Country In Norman Tindale' ... had a developed signed form of their language.Kendon, A. (1988) ''Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warenda, Queensland
Warenda is an outback locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. In the , Warenda had a population of 0 people. Geography Warenda is in the Channel Country. All watercourses in this area are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and most will dry up before their water reaches Lake Eyre. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. Education There are no schools in Warenda. The nearest primary schools are in Boulia and Dajarra but might be infeasible for a daily commute. The nearest secondary schools are in Winton and Mount Isa and are all too far for a daily commute. The Spinifex State College in Mount Isa offers boarding facilities. Other boarding schools or distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ... would be options. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warburton, Queensland
Warburton is a locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. In the , Warburton had a population of 0 people. Geography Warburton is in the Channel Country. All watercourses in this area are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and most will dry up before their water reaches Lake Eyre. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. Education There are no schools in Warburton. The nearest primary school is in Boulia but might be infeasible for a daily commute. The nearest secondary schools are in Winton and Mount Isa and are all too far for a daily commute. The Spinifex State College in Mount Isa offers boarding facilities. Other boarding schools or distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ... would be options. References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toko, Queensland
Toko is a rural outback locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. In the , Toko had a population of 4 people. Geography Toko is in the Channel Country. All watercourses in this area are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and most will dry up before their water reaches Lake Eyre. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History In the , Toko had a population of 4 people. Education There are no schools in Toko. The nearest primary school is in Boulia. The nearest secondary schools are in Mount Isa and Winton, both too far for a daily commute. The Spinifex State College in Mount Isa offers boarding facilities. Other boarding schools and distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ... are options. References {{Shire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piturie, Queensland
Piturie is an outback locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. It is on the Queensland border with the Northern Territory. In the , Piturie had a population of 57 people. Geography Piturie is in the Channel Country. All watercourses in this area are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and most will dry up before their water reaches Lake Eyre. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History '' Waluwarra'' (also known as ''Warluwarra'', ''Walugara'', and ''Walukara'') is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Queensland. Its traditional language region is the local government area of Shire of Boulia, including Walgra Station and Wolga, from Roxborough Downs north to Carandotta Station and Urandangi on the Georgina River, on Moonah Creek to Rochedale, south-east of Pituri Creek. Demographics In the , Piturie had a population of 59 people. In the , Piturie had a population of 57 people. Education Urandangi State School is a govern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Min Min, Queensland
Min Min is an uninhabited outback locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. The locality is most notable for the Min Min light, an unexplained aerial phenomenon reported throughout Australia's outback that was first observed by Europeans at Min Min (the phenomenon was known to Indigenous people prior to European settlement). The settlement is now a ghost town. In the , Min Min had a population of 0 people. Geography Min Min is in the Channel Country. All watercourses in this area are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and most will dry up before their water reaches Lake Eyre. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History The town is most famous for being the source for the name of the aerial phenomenon the ''Min Min light.'' One of the earliest recorded European encounters with the light comes from a stockman who lived in Min Min in 1918. In the , Min Min had a population of 0 people. Education There are no schools in Min Min. The n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina, Queensland
Georgina is an outback locality in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia. In the , Georgina had a population of 7 people. Geography Georgina is in the Channel Country. All watercourses in this area are part of the Lake Eyre drainage basin, and most will dry up before their water reaches Lake Eyre. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. Education There are no schools in Georgina. The nearest primary schools are in Boulia, Dajarra and Urandangi. The nearest secondary schools are in Mount Isa and Winton and are too far for a daily commute. The Spinifex State College in Mount Isa offers boarding facilities. Other boarding schools or distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ... would be options. References {{Shire of Boulia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaroo, Queensland
Amaroo is an outback locality split between the Shire of Boulia and the Shire of Diamantina, both in Central Western Queensland, Australia. In the , Amaroo had a population of 22 people. Geography Amaraoo is a large but largely uninhabited locality in the Channel Country. Rivers like the Georgina River, Burke River, Hamilton River and Sylvester Creek flow through the locality, all of them part of the Lake Eyre basin. These rivers only flow intermittently and, even when they flow, the water usually evaporates before it reaches Lake Eyre. The land is relatively flat so there is no clear single course for these rivers but rather they flow along a series of channels in the same direction (that is, a braided river). The waterholes that result from the flooding of these rivers sustain both native fauna and support cattle grazing which is the principal land use. The Boulia Bedourie Road passes through the locality from the north-east (Wills) to the south ( Bedourie). The Donohue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulia Division
#REDIRECT Shire of Boulia The Shire of Boulia is a local government area in Central West Queensland, bordering the Northern Territory. Its administrative centre is in the town of Boulia.It covers an area of , and has existed as a local government entity since 1887. The ... Boulia Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina River
The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in Central West Queensland, that also flows through a portion of the Northern Territory, in central Australia. Part of the Lake Eyre basin, the Georgina flows in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre. The river is named in honour of Georgina Mildred Kennedy, the daughter of Queensland governor Arthur Kennedy. The river was originally called the Herbert River before being given its current name in 1890 to avoid confusion with the other river in Queensland that bears that name. Geography With its headwaters rising in the Barkly Tableland, north of Camooweal in Queensland, and in the extreme east of the Northern Territory beyond Tennant Creek and to the south draining the northern slopes of the Macdonnell Ranges, the Georgina is formed from several smaller streams over a wide area of north-western Queensland and the eastern Northern Territory. From source to mouth, the Georgina is joined b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
