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  Bourke, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bourke is a town and Local Government Area in the north of New South Wales, Australia.
Bourke is located approximately 800 kilometers north-west of Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River, which is known as the Barwon River upstream from Bourke.
Bourke is considered to represent the edge of the settled agricultural districts and the gateway to the Outback which lies north and west of Bourke.
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 Encyclopedia: New South Wales Rivers
The principal topographic feature of New South Wales is the series of low highlands and plateaus called the Great Dividing Range which extend from north to south roughly parallel to the coast of the Tasman Sea.
The two main categories of rivers in New South Wales, are those which rise in the Great Dividing Range and flow directly eastwards to the sea, and those which rise on the other side of the crest of the range and flow westward towards the desert.
The second group of inland-flowing rivers in New South Wales are those which rise in the southern part of the State and combine directly with the Murray River which forms the southern border of New South Wales with Victoria.
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 MM17 Feature - Mapping the Border
New South Wales border snakes through the Great Dividing Range, 'a succession of straight lines of as great a length as practicable, without altogether departing from the watershed summit of the Range'.
In 1862, the colonial secretary in New South Wales wrote to his counterpart in Queensland to initiate a joint survey of the boundary line of the two colonies, from Point Danger westerly to the Dumaresq River, in accordance with the letters patent.
Preliminary work was undertaken by Mr W J Conder, superintendent of the trigonometrical survey in New South Wales, who observed the latitude of Barringun, a border township on the Warrego River, with a zenith telescope, having a 2 inch objective glass and 30 inch focal length.
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 Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West To the west, Queensland is bordered by the Northern Territory, at the 138° E. longitude, and to the south-west by the north-eastern corner of South Australia.
The State capital Brisbane, is located on the coast 100 km by road north of the New South Wales border.
The new constitution took effect on 6 June 2002, the anniversary of the formation of the independent colony of Queensland by the signing of Letters Patent by Queen Victoria in 1859.
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 Darling River - Art History Online Reference and Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Darling River is the longest river in Australia, flowing 2,739km from northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales.
In 1828 the explorer Charles Sturt was sent by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Ralph Darling, to investigate the course of the Macquarie River.
And this is the dirge of the Darling River.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Darling_River   (380 words)

  
 Lachlan Macquarie - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Historians assess his influence on the transition of New South Wales from a penal colony to a free settlement as being crucial to the shaping of Australian society.
Lachlan Macquarie was born in the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides islands of Scotland.
All these actions reflected his view that New South Wales, despite its origins as a penal settlement, was now to be seen as a part of the British Empire, where a free people would live and prosper and eventually govern themselves.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Lachlan_Macquarie   (1319 words)

  
 Barwon River (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Barwon River is a river in New South Wales, Australia.
The Barwon River is a river in Victoria, Australia.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barwon_River   (96 words)

  
 National Mapping - Fab Facts, Landforms, Australian Rivers
The Murray River and its tributary, the Darling River, are the main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin.
The Darling River flows south from the junction of the Culgoa and Barwon rivers.
Although the Culgoa is longer than the Barwon, the source of the Darling is generally agreed to be the Barwon River as it has the greater volume of water.
www.ga.gov.au /education/facts/landforms/longrive.htm   (215 words)

  
 THE FLOOD THREAT IN NEW SOUTH WALES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Heavy rainfalls which cause the banks of rivers and creeks to be overtopped, result in overflows from lakes, detention basins and stormwater drains, cause local overland flooding (including sheet flows across land), or result in releases from gated dams or spills from non-gated ones.
Tropical Cyclones moving south from the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria periodically reach New South Wales in decayed form as rain depressions, causing flooding in northern inland areas and along the coast as far south as Sydney.
This was the case in February 1954 on the Tweed, Richmond and Clarence rivers when an ex-tropical cyclone crossed the coast, and again on the same rivers in March 1974 as a result of heavy rains brought by a rain depression which had originated as Tropical Cyclone Zoe.
www.ses.nsw.gov.au /threat.html   (3990 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bathurst
It was superseded in 1861 by a fine new edifice (now the cathedral), which was erected at a cost of £12,000 by Dean Grant, pastor of Bathurst for nearly twenty years till his death in 1864.
In 1865 Bathurst, then part of the Diocese of Sydney, was made the cathedral centre of a new diocese, which extended from the River Murray to Queensland, and from the Blue Mountains to the border of South Australia.
In 1887 the new Diocese of Wilcannia was formed out of the Bathurst Diocese.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02349a.htm   (640 words)

  
 Hordern House
FORREST, Thomas A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan...
GILBERT, George Alexander (attrib.) Sketches of the Maribyrnong River, and the Barwon River at Geelong.
GOODRIDGE, Charles Medyett Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the Shipwreck.
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 NEW SOUTH WALES SHIPWRECKS
The gold rush of 1850 brought a new wave of immigration, and in the decade of 1850-1860, 602,000 hopefuls arrived in the sunburtnt country.
Ashore and lost on the south spit of the river at Ballina during a gale, April 1884.
Heavy weather off the southern New South Wales coast forced the convoy in which she was travelling to Iran to scatter; far off course, the tanker ran aground.
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 Elanora Heights Primary School - Information - Macquarie River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
When the explorers came to the banks of the Macquarie River and announced that a town of Bathurst would be built here, the Governor of New South Wales was Governor Macquarie.
The river never freezes but flooding has often been a problem and then there is the opposite problem of drying up during drought.
The river is not really wide or deep enough for large boats but many people canoe or use small boats on the river.
www.elanorahts-p.schools.nsw.edu.au /zipweb/rmacquar.html   (890 words)

  
 DMR References: Authors HI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hickman, W. and Olsen, A. A new turbellarian parasitic in the sea-star, Coscinasterias calamaria (Gray).
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 104(1): 35-48 17 refs.
Hynd, J. Report to the South Pacific Commission on an investigation of the fllip mother-of-pearl oyster Pinctada margaritifera (Linnaeus) in Manihiki, Cook Island.
www.marine.csiro.au /datacentre/refs/authors_hi.htm   (7356 words)

  
 Victorian Golf Courses, Royal Melbourne, the dunes, kingston heath, commonwealth, huntingdale.
Barwon Heads is an exquisite links course, rated number 3(public access) in Victoria and 29 in Australia.
Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club - Designed by Greg Norman this new course is certain to rival the established Sandbelt courses, and is one of Australia's most exciting new courses.
New golf course development at Barwon Heads, from the team that built The Dunes.
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 Aboriginal Economy & Society : Case Studies : Yuwaaliyaay people and their neighbours of the Darling/Barwon River
Yuwaaliyaay and their neighbours lived (and many of their descendants remain) by the Darling/Barwon River in northern New South Wales.
This is a semi-arid region of grassland and woodland, with perennial and intermittent rivers.
They were on the northern end of “no-having” people of the western slopes and plains, and tributaries of the Murray and Darling, and within the broader regions associated with matri-groups and section systems, and with a sky-centred cosmology.
arts.anu.edu.au /aesatc/case_studies/yuwaaliyaay.html   (844 words)

  
 Rural News - 31/12/2002: Blue green algae outbreak in the Barwon
The drought has prompted a warning to people who live on the Barwon River in northern New South Wales, to keep livestock away and don't drink the water because there's been a severe outbreak of blue green algae this week.
Nine out of 13 river watch monitoring sites are experiencing high, or very high levels of blue green algae.
This is a transcript from the ABC National Rural News that is broadcast daily to all states on ABC Regional Radio's Country Hour and in the city on ABC News Radio.
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/32037/20030102/www.abc.net.au/rural/news/stories/s756042.htm   (159 words)

  
 West New South Wales travel guide - Australian Outback Travel
On the banks of the Darling River almost 800km north-west of Sydney, the once thriving river port of Bourke was the highest town on the Darling from which barges filled with cargos of wool could be shipped downstream.
Although surrounded by dry plains the town is surprisingly green owing to the irrigation for citrus orchards and cotton crops.
The river was a natural fishery for the Aboriginal people and their fish traps, consisting of a complex pattern of partly submerged stone boulders, can still be seen.
www.atn.com.au /nsw/west/towns-b.htm   (486 words)

  
 Walkabout - Collarenabri
Located 792 km northwest of Sydney and 145 km west of Moree, Collarenabri is a tiny township on the banks of Barwon River which has become a favourite haunt for fishermen who come to catch cod, yellow belly and catfish in the river.
A cargo steamer, looking for suitable loading places for wool, reached the town in 1879 but the water level in the Barwon river was too unreliable for the town to grow as a port.
The local Aboriginal reserve was gazetted in 1899 and since that date the Aborigines have buried their dead in a special cemetery which now has well over 100 graves, some with crosses and others decorated with shells and ornaments.
www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/NSWCollarenabri.shtml   (267 words)

  
 Walkabout - Brewarrina
One book on Blacket describes the church as 'a small Blacket rural church with long lancet windows and central west buttress with bell–cote of the Raymond Terrace type' suggesting that Blacket had a standard range of church models which could be easily modified for differing circumstances.
The bridge could be raised and lowered to allow the steamers which plied the river to pass underneath its road span.
The fisheries are pieces of masterful ingenuity designed to trap the fish and to be sealed off so that the fishermen can catch and kill the fish at their leisure.
www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/NSWBrewarrina.shtml   (1094 words)

  
 Australian golf courses, course reviews, ratings and directory listings of every australian golf course
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New South Wales Golf Club - One of Australia's most spectacular courses, rated number 4 in Australia and number 43 in the world.
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 2002 Year Of The Outback New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
You drive 296 km north of Broken Hill, 39 km south of Tibooburra and 1465 km from Sydney to a small turnoff from the Silver City Highway (at this point it is a dirt road).
This part of the river is well known as a sportsman’s paradise; one of the last “real” fishing spots along the Murray-Darling system where the angler has a chance of tagging that rare and prized “big cod”, the Murray Cod.
The river is actually an unreliable water source and in 1942 a reliable canal from the Macquarie River was established.
www.visitoutbacknsw.com.au /towns/m-r.html   (2007 words)

  
 murray darling tour - people
Aboriginal fish traps in the Barwon River at Brewarrina - northern New South Wales
Lake Mungo, in south-western New South Wales, has revealed evidence of Aboriginal culture going back 40 000 years.
From the 1850's, fleets of paddle steamers plied the narrow, winding watercourses to supply stations and towns with their requirements and to carry wool and other products of the surrounding land to market.
www.mdbc.gov.au /tour/people.htm   (252 words)

  
 SA Country Hour Archive - 13/02/2002: Far West NSW landholders concerned about water licenses
Future water use is a big concern for river licence holders in farwest New South Wales, with increased restrictions on the Barwon-Darling River Cap.
This means that further cutbacks are needed to contain what is considered a healthy river flow and landholders along the river could be expected to reduce future water use by up to 40% while those who haven't developed their water use could face even further restrictions.
Rory Treweeke is the Chair of the Barwon Darling River Management Committee, the group that will advise the New South Wales government on future changes.
www.abc.net.au /rural/sa/stories/s480448.htm   (387 words)

  
 DLWC Media Release - Amery Confident About New South Wales’ Status Within The Murray-Darling Basin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Minister for Land and Water Conservation and Minister for Agriculture Richard Amery today said he was confident NSW was working within the Murray Darling Basin “cap” to balance the needs of water users and the environment.
New pumping rules were agreed to late last year and discussions are also taking place within the Barwon-Darling River Management Committee on the level of environmental flows which need to be implemented.
“Technical delays with new water gauging systems have hindered the discussion process and the models which will be used to guide future management of the river system are also currently being validated.
www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au /mediarel/mr20000324_575.html   (438 words)

  
 Outback Wanderer Tours, New South Wales, Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
: set on the banks of the Barwon-Darling River, we’ll visit the historic Aboriginal stone fisheries—part of a fishing culture spanning 40,000 years.
We’ll have a chance to explore—either go fishing or yabbying, or wander the walking tracks along the river.
It's the last town in NSW before you pass into South Australia or Queensland.
www.countryroad.net.au /tours/extended/outback.html   (555 words)

  
 Bourke, New South Wales - Result for Bourke, New South Wales - Meaning of Bourke, New South Wales - Definition of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bourke, New South Wales - Result for Bourke, New South Wales - Meaning of Bourke, New South Wales - Definition of Bourke, New South Wales - Dictionary of Meaning - www.mauspfeil.net
Bourke is located approximately 800 kilometers north-west of Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River, which is known as the Barwon River (New South Wales) Barwon River upstream from Bourke.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Bourke, New South Wales.
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 Australia -- New South Wales Weather Update
MELBOURNE - Jan 30/04 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of New South Wales was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
Minor to moderate flood warning for the Barwon River and Mungindi and downstream.
Isolated thunderstorms on the southern half on the ranges and adjacent slopes and coast should be confined to the south of the Southern Tablelands and adjacent coast on Saturday.
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 GABO ISLAND SHIPWRECKS
Disappeared off the New South Wales coast after leaving Newcastle for Hobart with a cargo of coal on 21 August 1920.
Her remains are believed to lie somewhere in the eastern approaches to Bass Strait, possibly south of Gabo Island off the east Gippsland coast.
She was also responsible for the loss of four steaamships in New Zealand waters: freighters Wairuna and Port Kembla, the trans Tasman liner Wimmera and the American four-masted schooner Winslow.
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