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Moorook, South Australia
Moorook is a small town in the Australia, Australian state of South Australia, one of a series of towns surrounding lakes in the Riverland, Riverland region. Moorook was surveyed in 1922 on the left bank of the Murray River, River Murray where it flows northwards between Loxton, South Australia, Loxton and Kingston on Murray, South Australia, Kingston on Murray. It is south of the Sturt Highway. Moorook South, the most populated part of the town, is opposite Moorik Isle and upstream of most of Moorook Game Reserve, which surrounds and contains Wachtels Lagoon, a area of water fed by the river. The dominant industry is citrus fruit growing; a large processing factory is located there. Located south-west of Moorook is Yinkanie, the terminus of the former Yinkanie railway line, Moorook railway line, which was open from 1925 to 1971. Intense lobbying by the residents of Kingston On Murray, to the north, to have the terminus there, ironically resulted in neither becoming the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Chaffey
Chaffey, created in 1936, is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia including the towns of Renmark, South Australia, Renmark, Berri, South Australia, Berri, Barmera, South Australia, Barmera, Loxton, South Australia, Loxton and Waikerie, South Australia, Waikerie. The seat is named after brothers George Chaffey, George and William Chaffey who established the irrigation area along the Murray River from 1886. Chaffey spent most of the Playmander era in the hands of independent William MacGillivray (politician), William MacGillivray. The Liberal and Country League did not win it until 1956 South Australian state election, 1956. Chaffey was won three times by Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor's Reg Curren as their most marginal electorate on a Two-party-preferred vote, two-party-preferred basis – in 1962 South Australian state elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Railway History
''Australian Railway History'' is a monthly magazine covering railway history in Australia, published by the New South Wales Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society on behalf of its state and territory Divisions. History and profile It was first published in 1937 as the ''Australasian Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin''. It was renamed ''ARHS Bulletin'' in 1952. In January 2004, the magazine was re-branded as ''Australian Railway History''. Historically, the magazine had a mix of articles dealing with historical material and items on current events drawn from its affiliate publications. Today, it contains only historical articles, two or three of them being in-depth. References Publication details *''Australian Railway History: bulletin of the Australian Railway Historical Society'' Redfern, New South Wales Vol. 55, no. 795 (Jan. 2004)- *''Bulletin (Australian Railway Historical Society The Australian Railway Historical Society (AR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moorook Railway Line
The Yinkanie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Named the Wanbi to Moorook Railway in itenabling Act it never reached its intended destination on the River Murray. The railway ran from a junction with the Barmera line at Wanbi northwards to Yinkanie, opening on 7 September 1925 and closing on 1 May 1971. Route The route of the line was designed to cover the gap between the Waikerie and Loxton lines at the lowest cost. The names of the new stations were Gluyas, Caliph A caliphate ( ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with Khalifa, the title of caliph (; , ), a person considered a political–religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of ..., Bayah, Tuscan, Koowa, Wunkar, Myrla, Wappilka and Yinkanie. References External links Closed railway lines in South Australia Railway lines opened in 1925 Railway lines closed in 1971 {{SouthAus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wappilka, South Australia
Wappilka is a locality in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. Wappilka was founded based on the Wappilka siding on the Moorook railway line The Yinkanie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Named the Wanbi to Moorook Railway in itenabling Act it never reached its intended destination on the River Murray. The railway ran from a junction with t .... The railway opened in 1925 and closed in 1971. The town was surveyed in August 1926 and declared ceased to exist in February 1960. The railway siding received 30,000 bags of wheat in the 1926–1927 season. The name continues to be used for the locality. References Towns in South Australia {{SouthAustralia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wigley Flat, South Australia
Wigley may refer to: Places * Wigley, Derbyshire, England, a place in Derbyshire * Wigley, Hampshire, England, on the River Blackwater *Wigley, Bromfield, Shropshire, England People *Bob Wigley, English businessman * Dafydd Wigley, Baron Wigley (born 1943), born David Wigley, Welsh politician * George J. Wigley (1825–1866), English journalist and supporter of Catholic causes *Sir Harry Wigley (1913–1980), New Zealand pilot, adventurer and tourism entrepreneur * Jane Wigley (1820–1883), British photographer * Richard E. Wigley (1918–1998), American farmer and politician * Rodolph Wigley (1881–1946), New Zealand tourism pioneer *Steve Wigley (born 1961), English (soccer) football coach and former player * Thomas Francis Wigley (c. 1854–1933), lawyer and horse racing official in South Australia * Thomas Henry Wigley (1825–1895), South Australian farmer then New Zealand politician *Tom Wigley Tom Michael Lampe Wigley is a climate scientist at the University of Ade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wunkar, South Australia
Wunkar is a small town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia. Wunkar was originally a station on the Moorook railway line The Yinkanie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Named the Wanbi to Moorook Railway in itenabling Act it never reached its intended destination on the River Murray. The railway ran from a junction with t .... The town was surveyed in 1926 after the railway station name was approved in 1925. The railway closed in 1971. Wunkar now lies adjacent to the Stott Highway approximately 27 km west of Loxton. There are bulk grain silos at the former railway station. The school opened in 1925 and closed in 1973. The southern boundary of the locality of Wunkar on Farr Road includes the former town and railway siding of Tuscan. No infrastructure remains there. In its day, Tuscan had a sawmill and a busy railway siding, but no school. Towards the northern edge of the locality is the site of the former siding of P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stott Highway
Stott Highway is a state-controlled highway in South Australia, linking Angaston in the Barossa Valley, through Sedan and Swan Reach, to Pyap in the Riverland region. It was named after Tom Stott, a member of the South Australian state parliament. Route Stott Highway commences at the intersection with Eden Valley Road just south of Angaston and heads in an easterly direction through Keyneton and Sedan, until it reaches the western bank of the Murray River at Swan Reach: the river is traversable by vehicular ferry. On the eastern bank, the highway continues east until eventually terminating at the intersection with Kingston Road in Pyap, just west of Loxton. History Previously known as Swan Reach Road, it was renamed Stott Highway in 2008, after Tom Stott Tom Cleave Stott Order of the British Empire, CBE (6 June 1899 – 21 October 1976) spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly, from 1933 to 1970. He served as Speaker of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Albert
The County of Albert is one of the Lands administrative divisions of South Australia, 49 cadastral counties of South Australia on the east banks of the River Murray. It was proclaimed by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell, Richard MacDonnell in 1860 and named for Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria. Hundreds A few years before the county was proclaimed, the Hundred of the Murray had been established to control land use immediately adjacent the river. This was abolished in 1860 and the county was proclaimed along with the five western riverside hundreds of Cadell, Randell (now Murbko), Paisley, Cooper (now Nildottie), and Giles (now Forster). Eight further hundreds were proclaimed to incorporated the entire county by 1912. The county is presently divided into hundred (county subdivision), hundreds as follows: * Along the left (east) bank of the Murray River proceeding southwards from the southward bend at Morgan, South Australia, Morgan are the hundreds of Cadell, Murbko, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village Settlements (South Australia)
The Village Settlements were communes set up by the South Australian government under Part VII of the ''Crown Lands Amendment Act 1893'', a scheme intended to mitigate the effects of the depression that was affecting the Colony. It followed the New Zealand V''illage Settlements Act'' and similar schemes in Canada and New South Wales, and concurrently with Victoria. It followed the " blockers" scheme espoused by George W. Cotton. Thirteen settlements were surveyed: Lyrup, Pyap, Kingston, Waikerie, Moorook, Ramco, Holder, Murtho, New Residence, Gillen, New Era and Charleston-on-Murray all on the River Murray, Mount Remarkable in the Mid North, and Nangkita to the south of Adelaide. Holder and Murtho were proclaimed as Village Settlements by May 1896, Lyrup, Pyap, Kingston, Waikerie, Moorook and Ramco followed. The Village Settlement Aid Society was formed to give financial and other assistance to the "villagers". Its secretary was Thomas Hyland Smeaton. The sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of Moorook, 1894 (22883901884)
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is " hecto-". 100 is the basis of percentages ( meaning "by the hundred" in Latin), with 100% being a full amount. 100 is a Harshad number in decimal, and also in base-four, a base in-which it is also a self-descriptive number. 100 is the sum of the first nine prime numbers, from 2 through 23. It is also divisible by the number of primes below it, 25. 100 cannot be expressed as the difference between any integer and the total of coprimes below it, making it a noncototient. 100 has a reduced totient of 20, and an Euler totient of 40. A totient value of 100 is obtained from four numbers: 101, 125, 202, and 250. 100 can be expressed as a sum of some of its divisors, making it a semiperfect number. The geometric mean of its nine divisors is 10. 100 is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moorook Village Settlement B-5021
Moorook may refer to. *Moorook, South Australia, a town and locality * Moorook Game Reserve, a protected area in South Australia * Moorook Island - refer List of islands within the Murray River in South Australia *Moorook railway line, a former railway line in South Australia *Hundred of Moorook 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ..., a cadastral unit in South Australia See also * Moorook West Wood Camp {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yinkanie Railway Line
The Yinkanie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Named the Wanbi to Moorook Railway in itenabling Act it never reached its intended destination on the River Murray. The railway ran from a junction with the Barmera line at Wanbi northwards to Yinkanie, opening on 7 September 1925 and closing on 1 May 1971. Route The route of the line was designed to cover the gap between the Waikerie and Loxton lines at the lowest cost. The names of the new stations were Gluyas, Caliph A caliphate ( ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with Khalifa, the title of caliph (; , ), a person considered a political–religious successor to the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a leader of ..., Bayah, Tuscan, Koowa, Wunkar, Myrla, Wappilka and Yinkanie. References External links Closed railway lines in South Australia Railway lines opened in 1925 Railway lines closed in 1971 {{SouthAus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
