Burra may refer to:

Places

* Burra, South Australia, a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia ** District Council of Burra (1872–1935) **

District Council of Burra Burra The District Council of Burra Burra was a local government area in South Australia from 1935 to 1997. It was proclaimed on 21 March 1935, with effect from 1 May 1935, as a result of the amalgamation of the District Council of Burra, District Cou ...

(1935–1997) **

Corporate Town of Burra The Corporate Town of Burra was a local government area in South Australia from 1876 to 1969. The municipality was proclaimed on 29 June 1876 following the necessary petition of residents in the townships of Aberdeen, Kooringa and Redruth, severi ...

(1876–1969) **

Electoral district of The Burra The Burra was an South Australian House of Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly, House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1862 to 1875. ''The Burra'' was also the n ...

(1857–1875) ** Electoral district of Burra (1875–1902), (1938–1970) **

Electoral district of Burra Burra Burra Burra was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1902 to 1938. After a boundary redistribution in 1902, the Electoral district of Burra Burra was an electoral district of the Ho ...

* Burra, Shetland, the collective name for two of the Shetland Islands **

West Burra West Burra is one of the Scalloway Islands, a subgroup of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is connected by bridge to East Burra. With an area of , it is the eleventh-largest of the Shetland Islands. Geography The nearby south-facing s ...

East Burra East Burra ( sco, East Burra; Old Norse: "Barrey"Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) ''Orkneyinga Saga''. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). ) is one of the Scalloway Islands, a s ...

* Burra, New South Wales, a locality located near Canberra, Australia * Burra Parish (Murray County), a land administrative division, essentially identical with the above locality * Burra Parish (Kennedy County), a land administrative division in central western New South Wales *

Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee) The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra Burra Mine is located in the Copper Basin geological region, and extracted over 15 million ...

, named after the South Australian mine

People

* Djambu "Sambo" Burra Burra (born 1946), noted Aboriginal Australian artist living at

Ngukurr Ngukurr ( , ), formerly Roper River Mission (1908−1968), is a remote Aboriginal community on the banks of the Roper River in southern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. A number of different clans and language groups are represented in the tow ...

, NT * Edward Burra (1905-1976), an English painter *

John Burra John Burra (born November 20, 1965) is a retired long-distance runner from Tanzania, who won the 1987 edition of Amsterdam Marathon, clocking 2:12:40 on May 10, 1987. He twice represented his native country in the Olympic men's marathon, in 1988 ...

(born 1956), a Tanzanian long-distance runner *

Peter Burra Peter Burra (1909 – 27 April 1937) was a British writer and critic, the author of "The Novels of E. M. Forster". Early life Peter Burra and his twin sister Nella Burra were close friend with Peter Pears; Burra and Pears went to school togeth ...

(1909-1937), British literary critic

Other

* Burra Charter, a charter relating to conservation of Australian heritage places *Burra, a common name of the Australian plant ''

Eremophila fraseri ''Eremophila fraseri'', commonly known as burra or jilarnu, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with all above-ground parts of the plant, apart from the pe ...

'' *Burra or Burra Leiteira, a common name of the neotropical plant ''

Sapium scleratum ''Sapium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the ...

'' in genus ''

Sapium ''Sapium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the ...

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