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

** East Burra * Burra, New South Wales, a locality located near Canberra, Australia *

Burra Parish (Murray County) Burra is an Australian locality of rural smallholdings lying 20 kilometres to the south of Queanbeyan, New South Wales in the Queanbeyan-Palerang Region. At the , Burra had a population of 790 people. History The Ngarigo people originally inha ...

, a land administrative division, essentially identical with the above locality *

Burra Parish (Kennedy County) Burra Parish located at is a cadastral parish in Kennedy County Kennedy County is one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales. It is located to the west of the Bogan River in the area around Tottenham and Tullamore. Kennedy Count ...

, a land administrative division in central western New South Wales * Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee), 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 198 ...

(born 1956), a Tanzanian long-distance runner * Peter Burra (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'' *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 ...

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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 ...

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See also

Places including the spelling of Burra

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