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	Walkabout - Boulia
		Only the lands in the north-west gulf area were unoccupied by the end of the 1870s and Boulia was a kind of last outpost before the deserts.
		Boulia gained publicity in October 1990 when an elusive night parrot was found dead beside the road about 35 km north of the township.
		Boulia's fame rests largely on its association with the mysterious Min Min lights.
	walkabout.fairfax.com.au /locations/QLDBoulia.shtml (752 words)

	Ethnologue report for Australia
		Queensland, Barron River from south of Mareeba to Kuranda, north to Port Douglas on a plateau.
		Queensland, head of Gilbert River, south of Forsayth to Gledswood and Gregory Range to Oak Park and Glenora; Northern Territory, coast east of Robinson River.
		Queensland, from the mouth of the Fitzroy River inland to Boomer Range at Marlborough, Yeppon, Yamba, and Rockhampton.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Australia (3626 words)

	Min Min Encounter Outback Queensland Australia : Review from the Lost Luggage Tales
		On the edge of the Simpson Desert in Queensland's Outback lies a tiny town with a ghostly reputation.
		If you are driving through the bush at night around Boulia, 300km south of Mount Isa, and you see a strange light with no apparent source dancing in the gidgee scrub or floating near an isolated highway - you're not the first.
		Boulia local Robert "Bruiser" Cooms has lived in the area all his life and sighted the Min Min at least half a dozen times while driving at night.
	www.lostluggagetales.com /reviews/boulia-min-min.shtml (474 words)

	Boulia, Queensland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boulia is the administrative centre of the Boulia Shire, population approximately 600, which covers an area of 61,176 square kilometres.
		The town is the home of the famous Boulia Desert Sands Camel Races, one of the most important events on the Australian camel racing circuit.
		However, when the monsoon is strong rainfall can be heavy: in January 1974 Boulia received 465 mm (over 18 inches) of rain and in March 1950 over 330 mm (13 inches).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boulia (321 words)

	queensland outback boulia
		Boulia is located 300 kilometres south of Mount Isa at the junction of the Diamantina and Kennedy Development Roads.
		Spectacular outback vistas and a myriad of native flora and fauna set the scene for what should be a memorable visit, rich in history with fossils, culture and a pioneering past.
		Boulia is regarded as the capital of the 'Channel Country'.
	www.sunzine.com.au /outback/boulia.html (345 words)

	News and Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Held in April at the Boulia Rodeo Grounds, this three-day event promises to be one to entice the whole family.
		Be part of the action at a rodeo event with top class bull and bronc riders, team ropers and campdrafters all out to record their best times.
		The Boulia Races, held on Saturday is an afternoon not to be missed.
	www.boulia.qld.gov.au /news_and_events/index.shtml (636 words)

	AusEmade: Boulia Information and Attractions, Queensland (QLD), Australia
		This hotel burnt down in 1918 and not long after a stockman on his way to Boulia was followed by a light for several kilometres.
		Other interesting items of note are the rich fossil fields nearby, the famous Boulia Camel Races held at the end of July each year this event expands the towns population from 300 to approximately 4000 with entrants from most state and territories across Australia.
		Another highlight of the Boulia calendar is the Boulia Rodeo Races and Campdraft held each Easter Weekend.
	www.ausemade.com.au /qld/destination/b/boulia-attractions.htm (645 words)

	Shinplasters of Outback Australia
		Having been in business in Boulia, Western Queensland, for over ten years, and having dealt much in money tokens, I was particularly interested in the story of ‘The Wanderer’ in ‘The Sunday Sun’ of January 15.
		There was a ‘school’ on in Boulia, and a man who had just received a telegram entered the room while the game was proceeding, and crumpling the envelope up in his hand he through it on the table for a 5s I.O.U., and started to bet.
		Queensland is such a big territory as you know, and we may not happen to handle some of the paper currency issued in other districts.
	www.pjsymes.com.au /articles/shinplasters.htm (3206 words)

	Boulia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Boulia is a town in Central West Queensland Australia.
		It is located approximately 296 kilometres road south of Mount Isa and lies on the Burke River.
		town population approximately 300 is the administrative of the Boulia Shire population approximately 600 covers an area of 61 176 square
	www.freeglossary.com /Boulia (511 words)

	Boulia, Queensland - Travel Action Matilda Country
		Boulia - just getting there is an experience in fascinating landscape.
		One of the highlights of a trip to Boulia, coming from the Winton direction, is seeing the curiously flat-topped hills.
		Once in Boulia, visit the Min Min Encounter, a superb centre that is home to a unique theatrical experience based on the Min Min phenomenon.
	www.action-graphics.com.au /matilda/pages/boulia/bouliaintro.html (90 words)

	Outback - Queensland Holidays
		Queensland’s Outback, Australia’s final frontier, invites you to experience its spectacular wonders.
		Follow in the footsteps of early pioneers and marvel at the rugged terrain and beautiful Coolabah-lined rivers.
		Queensland's Outback has a plethora of great places for you to stay on your holiday.
	www.queenslandholidays.com.au /destinations/outback (233 words)

	Boulia - Queensland - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		It is the administrative centre for an area covering 61,176 sq.
		Queensland’s most popular corner has more going for it than sunshine.
		This is a sad story from the Canadian ski resort town of Whistler, but one which could have a happy ending in February 2010.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Queensland/Boulia/2005/02/17/1108500202154.html (839 words)

	Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Website: Busktalks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Approximately 20 people attended including parents and representatives of Boulia School, Boulia Shire Council, the Family Support Centre and the Country Womens' Association of Australia.
		"Boulia and Barcoo are the only two shires in the region that don't have power.
		It is very expensive to get the Queensland Ambulance Service to come from Mt Isa to Boulia to conduct these courses.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /human_rights/rural_australians/bushtalks/boulia.html (1844 words)

	Boulia: The Melbourne Cup of camel racing :: ABC Western Queensland
		Unseasonal rain flooded some creeks near Boulia on the weekend of the Boulia camel races.
		The small town of Boulia in far western Queensland hosted its 10th camel racing carnival on the third weekend in July.
		Boulia's camel races have grown from small beginnings ten years ago into a major event on the western Queensland calendar.
	www.abc.net.au /westqld/stories/s1695301.htm?backyard (558 words)

	mortgage on the web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Western Queensland council offers details about the area, local attractions, photo gallery, community information and events in the shire.
		Boulia is my country a place that time has forgotten but I have not forgotten my old grandfathers land and grandmother who lived and loved and made children and looked after...
		Baganan and her entourage will be travelling a lot in the next six months.
	www.a-mortgage.us /Boulia.php (197 words)

	John Richard owen
		Sarah Elizabeth Owen who was born in East Charlton in 1881, married James Arthur Wolff (1878-1962) in Charters Towers in Queensland in 1899 and died in Chillagoe in Queensland in 1941.
		William Robert Owen who was born in Boulia in North West Queensland in 1884, married Gladys Pearl Campbell in Kidston Queensland and had three children: Roy, Lance and Kate.
		The late Mrs Owen, whose death was recently announced in these columns, arrived in Queensland from Victoria at an early age and travelled overland from Roma to Boulia in 1882 with her uncle, Mr W. Lilley of Maryvale Station, Boulia.
	homepage.mac.com /g.cheeseman/johnrowen.htm (726 words)

	Animal Info - Kowari
		It was recorded from the South Australia/Northern Territory border near Charlotte Waters, northern South Australia around Warburton Creek and north of Cooper Creek, south and east of the Simpson Desert, and western Queensland between the Simpson Desert and Diamantina River south of Boulia.
		Australia, the southwest of Queensland, and the northeast of South Australia.
		As of 1996, records suggested a distribution from north of Cooper Creek; east of Killalpanina to east of the Simpson Desert in Queensland; south of Boulia and west of Thomson Creek from around Betoota.
	www.animalinfo.org /species/dasybyrn.htm (553 words)

	Frontier Services - Karratha Occasional Care
		The service is managed by a Senior Co-ordinator, Assistant Co-ordinator and one part time Administration Assistant and is based in Hughenden (Flinders Shire), which is approximately 4 hours west of Townsville and servicing nine shires in North Queensland — Boulia, Croydon, Cloncurry, Dalrymple, Etheridge, Flinders, McKinlay, Richmond and Winton.
		The service “NQ Remote In Home Care” encompasses 9 shires in North Queensland and sources carers who will provide child care, as contractors, particularly for rural and remote families in situations where they would not normally be able to access any form of child care.
		The provision of support will provide a part of a network of support to families and a holistic approach to their care.
	www.frontierservices.org /services/nqinhomecare.htm (172 words)

	Events in Queensland Australia : Resources from the Lost Luggage Tales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Perhaps one of the most bizarre things Queensland Outback locals race are dunnies, or more precisely, outhouses.
		The Great Dunny Derby, as it's called, is raced every two years in Winton in the Central West as part of the town's Outback Festival.
		In terms of the Boulia camel races, the event has a business side as sheiks from the Middle East come over to investigate camel breeding possibilities.
	www.lostluggagetales.com /resources/outback-queensland-racing.shtml (385 words)

	National Native Title Tribunal: : Kalkadoon & Mitakoodi (QC99/32A QC99/32B QC00/12 QC96/101) - 24 October 2001
		Armstrong, R.E.M. The Kalkadoons: a Study of an Aboriginal Tribe on the Queensland Frontier.
		Blake, B.J., 1987, 'Subordinate verb morphology in western Queensland', in D.C Laycock, and W. Winter (eds), A world of language: papers presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th birthday, Pacific Linguistics Series C-100, Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
		Republished in K.F. MacIntyre (Ed.) (1984) The Queensland Aborigines, vol.
	www.nntt.gov.au /bibliography/1022035484_3767.html (1043 words)

	OUTBACK AUSTRALIA
		Locals say that the Min Min light was last seen in 1974, but after that… well, nobody had.
		Tourists who didn’t see the lights, complained it had been a wasted trip, but the locals, protective of Boulia's own mystery, insisted it was because of the great increase in traffic that the lights were running shy.
		We camped on the plains at Boulia three times and I watched all night in the hope of seeing this phosphorescent phenomenon, but with no luck.
	www.thewaterfront.net.au /romona/new_page_6.htm (599 words)

	Outback Australia Motorcycle Tours - Boulia Camel Races
		A stockman is breaking in one of the many wild camels that they have mustered for the Boulia Camel Cup.
		The Boulia Desert Sand camel race first kicked off in 1997 not only aimed at grabbing tourist dollars but also attempting to start a virginian industry in the hope of producing race bread camels for the lucrative middle eastern market.
		The Dingo Barrier Fence said to be visible from outer space and the longest ever man made structures in the world.
	www.amcr.com.au /boulia_camel_races.htm (1094 words)

	State Library of Queensland - Queensland wide databases
		Please note under the terms of the licence agreements, the information provided in these databases is for personal use (i.e.
		NewsBank - access to fulltext newspaper articles from more than 230 Queensland, Australian and international titles, with a particular focus on Australian, American and English publications.
		The Directory of Queensland Public Libraries has a complete list of Queensland public libraries and local governments.
	www.slq.qld.gov.au /find/articles/data/qld (847 words)

	National Native Title Tribunal: : Kalkadoon People & Indjilandji People (QC99/32A QC99/32B QC96/100 QC97/63) - 06 ...
		Blake, Barry J. (1987) 'Subordinate verb morphology in western Queensland, in D. Laycock and W. Winter (eds) A world of language: papers presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th birthday.
		Mathews, R.H. (1905) 'Ethnological notes on the Aboriginal tribes of Queensland', Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Queensland Branch, vol.
		Sharp, Lauriston (1935) 'Semi-moieties in North-Western Queensland', Oceania, vol.
	www.nntt.gov.au /bibliography/1022034952_3369.html (1055 words)

	Australian personalized children's books just for you
		Remains were found in Hughenden, Queensland, Australia in 1899 already.
		Pteranodon remains were found in Queensland, Australia and dated back to 110 million years ago.
		A partial skeleton of Woolungosaurus glendowerensis was found in Queensland, Australia, and dated to 110 million years ago.
	www.kavenga.com /otherpages/dinodetails.htm (910 words)

	Rivers in Central Australia
		Silver tandans were common, a couple of bony bream and spangled perch were also collected.
		The typical scene on the Diamantina River channels, near Winton, Queensland.
		Randal, M. Hydrogeology of the South-Eastern Georgina Basin and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory.
	www.desertfishes.org /australia/habitats/rivers/rivergen.shtml (1895 words)

	GOLFSelect Australian Golf Course Database - Queensland
		C/- Allora Sport Club Warwick Street, Allora, Queensland, 4362.
		Army Promotion Training Centre Kakoda Barracks, Canungra, Queensland, 4275.
		Cnr Nerang Broadbeach Road and Alabaster Drive, Carrara, Queensland, 4211.
	www.golfselect.com.au /armchair/courseList.aspx?state=QLD (135 words)

	Boulia capital of the Channel Country
		Boulia is located 299 kilometres south of Mt Isa at the junction of the Diamantina and Kennedy Development Roads.
		The town was established in 1876 and was sited on the "Bullu Bullu" waterhole of the Burke River.
		Boulia is regarded as the capital of the "Channel Country", extending as far as the corner formed by the Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australian borders.
	www.totaltravel.com.au /travel/qld/outbackqld/northwestqld/guide/boulia (466 words)

	Collection Snapshots: Aboriginal Subsistence Strategies in Arid Australia - Bags
		Bags of this shape and style were used to carry nardoo seed and are unique to this region of Queensland.
		In Western New South Wales, particularly after good seasons, seeds were stored in bags made of animal skin.
		E.14859 Bag (40 cm long) from Boulia, Queensland.
	www.amonline.net.au /snapshots/arid/bags.htm (134 words)

	Boulia Community Guide and Business Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Boulia CommunityGuide is part of the CommunityGuide Network of websites and is designed to help residents and visitors find information about Boulia, its facilities, businesses, community groups, events, attractions and services.
		A Big Thank you to all people in Boulia for helping make the CommunityGuide one of Australia's most popular and trusted websites.
		The Boulia Community Guide is your online guide to the Shire of Boulia.
	www.boulia.communityguide.com.au (395 words)

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