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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 considered to represent the edge of the settled agricultural districts and the gateway to the Outback which lies north and west of Bourke.
Bourke was mentioned in the trial of Bradley John Murdoch on Nov 24, 2005, as the place where alleged murder victim Peter Falconio was allegedly seen, 8 days after his disappearance from near Barrow Creek, Northern Territory.
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 NEW SOUTH WALES - LoveToKnow Article on NEW SOUTH WALES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New South Wales is bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the E., by Queensland on the N., by South Australia on the W. and by Victoria on the S. It lies between 28 and 38 S. lat., and 141 and 154 E. long.
South of Sydney the rivers are of less importance; the principal is the Shoalhaven, 260 m.
In the extreme south-east of New South Wales, at the head of the Genoa river, are sandstones with Archaeopleris howilti, which are an extension of the Lower Devonian beds of Victoria; while farther to the east, at Eden and Twofold Bay, are Upper Devonian sandstones.
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 Encyclopedia: Bourke, New South Wales
The Darling in unusually good condition, near Bourke 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.
Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bourke KCB was Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia between 1831 and 1837.
Bourke was established in 1859 as a paddleboat destination and during the 1860s pastoralists moved into the area and vast sheep runs were established.
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 AusEmade: Bourke Travel Information and Attractions Guide, New South Wales (NSW), Australia
Fort Bourke was short-lived, but it did establish the possibility of settlement in the area and over the next decade pastoralists moved into the area.
Bourke remained the transport centre for the whole of south west Queensland and western NSW for decades, as it’s port was the only efficient way to transport wool to the coastal markets, and at its height in the late 1800s over 40,000 bales of wool were being shipped down the Darling annually.
Bourke Lock and Weir • Darling River Near Bourke, BOURKE NSW 2840 - The Bourke Weir was the first ever built on the Darling River, and the lock, that allowed the paddleboats to bypass the weir, was the first in Australia and the only one ever built on the Darling River.
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 Northwest And Back O' Bourke :: New South Wales :: Australia Destination Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
So remote is the image Bourke (pronounced "Burke") evokes in the minds of Sydney-siders, that dubbing the state's out-hack as "back o' Bourke" is tantamount to declaring it the end of the earth.
Sprinkled across this lesser-known half of New South Wales are some of Australia's most remote national parks, including Lake Mungo, which has yielded evidence of human occupation in Australia many tens of thousands of years ago.
New England A lovely, scenic alternative to the coast, with rustic beauty and a cooler year-round cli¬mate, the New England Highway begins in Sydney, continues along Hwy 15 to Bris¬bane, and is serviced by most major bus lines.
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 NEW SOUTH WALES - LoveToKnow Article on NEW SOUTH WALES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Less commercially important than the Hunter, the Hawkesbury is nevertheless a fine stream; it has a course of 330 m., of which 70 m.
The copper lodes of New South Wales contain ores of a much higher grade than those of many well-known mines worked at a profit in other parts of the world, and, with a fair price for copper, the production largely increases.
New South, Wales maintains a large trade with foreign countries aggregating 3,434,609 imports and 10,762,439 exports.
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 Resources - The Governor of New South Wales
Born, of Lebanese descent, in Narrandera in the Riverina district of New South Wales, and educated at Narrandera Public School and Sydney Girls High School, Marie Bashir gained her bachelor degrees in medicine and surgery in 1956 from the University of Sydney.
The colony of New South Wales was a penal colony with a military government.
The New South Wales Act was primarily to regulate the system of courts and the judiciary in New South Wales, but there were provisions in the Act for the establishment of a Legislative Council of between 5 and 7 men to advise the Governor.
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 New South Wales Bourke Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The closest town to Bourke is Byrock but its population count is nominal.
In 1885 Bourke was linked by rail, which strengthened the towns position as a transportation and supply depot.
Bourkes cemetery tells the towns history with Afghan camel drivers, bushrangers and farm pioneers in the area.
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 Resources Theses
The main objective of this cross-sectional survey was to determine the prevalence of visual impairment and blindness within the community of Bourke, New South Wales.
Bourke is a small town in northwest New South Wales with a population of approximately 4,500, the Aboriginal community comprising almost 23% of the total population.
A proportional randomised sample of the outpatient database was standardised using the 1991 Census population of Bourke to estimate prevalence rates.
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 Bourke, Australia
The far west of New South Wales is a fascinating and typically Australian region, depicted in poetry and folk tales as an endless red plain spangled with wild flowers and patterned by rocky hills and dried-up rivers.
The construction of the Bourke Weir in 1892 made it possible to grow citrus fruits and cotton in irrigated fields, amid arid plains covered with salt bush and Mitchell grass.
The Bourke Historical Museum (45 Mitchell Street) offers an excellent survey of the history of the outback.
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 Hungerford - New South Wales -
The police cannot do anything if there's a row going on across the street in New South Wales, except to send to Brisbane and have an extradition warrant applied for; and they don't do much if there's a row in Queensland.
Club Med is after a new image to go with its new laid-back culture, writes James Shrimpton.
New Zealand is a land of contrasts and can cater to many tastes.
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 Bourke, New South Wales - Travelmate
Old-timers reckon that, once you’re out the Back o’ Bourke, you are in the dinkum Aussie outback.
And, despite the tyranny of distance and the odds, Bourke has survived as an important trading centre in the parched west.
Bourke is graced with a number of historically significant buildings, but the standout is the magnificently restored Lands Building which began life as a court house in 1885 and is now used as government offices.
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 NSW Wattles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
To the north and north-west of Bourke in New South Wales, Gidgee (A. cambagei) is found as dense to open tall shrublands on a variety of soil types.
Ironwood (A. excelsa) woodlands are found in the northern part of New South Wales, mostly north and north-west from Nyngan on floodplains and sandplains; while Currawang (A. doratoxylon) is common on the skeletal sandy soils of hills and stony ridges further to the east of these other Acacia communities.
to the east of the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales.
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 Accommodation Bourke New South Wales Australia. Great accommodation in bourke australia.    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
(780km W Sydney) Back o' Bourke is a common Australian phrase that has been in use for well over a century, an affectionate reference to the town's position at the edge of the outback.
The township had its beginnings in the 1860's and, as pastoralists moved into the area and vast sheep runs were established, the wool trade developed and the river transport trade along with it.
By the 1880's, Bourke was a major inland river port and a stopover for the Cobb and Co coach line; the advent of the railway in 1885 only served to strengthen the town's fortunes as a major transportation and supply depot.
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 BUG - Backpackers Guide to Bourke, Broken Hill and Outback New South Wales, Australia
Although not as wild as the outback regions in other states, the New South Wales outback is more accessible, particularly if you don't have the time to visit South Australia or the Northern Territory.
Although Bourke is a remote town by anyone's standards, it is the closest bit of outback to Sydney.
The area around Bourke is surprisingly fertile and there is quite a bit of fruit picking work between November and February although there are nicer spots elsewhere in Australia for this sort of work.
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 Bourke Public Library Accommodation in Bourke, New South Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Bourke Public Library Accommodation in Bourke, New South Wales
Located 5 minutes from Bourke, 2 minutes from airport, 2 minutes from historic North Bourke Bridge.
Self-contained cottages, new 9 bedroom bunkhouse, powered sites, secluded river campsites, B and B, packages including all meals and activities.
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 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.
Founded by explorer Thomas Mitchell, who in 1835 built Fort Bourke, a wooden stockade, where a cairn now stands, was laid out 25 years later and became a coach centre.
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 The Great Artesian Basin (Where To Stay)
Artesian groundwater in the Great artesian was first discovered in 1878 when a shallow boresunk near Bourke in New South Wales produced flowing water.
The water from the Great Artesian Basin continues to be of vital importance to outback regions of Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia.
The Basin covers a total area of over 1 711 000 square km and it has an estimated total water storage of 8 700 million megalitres (a megalitre is one million litres and is equivalent to about half the water in an Olympic swimming pool).
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 New South Wales Accommodation & Travel Information, Jasons Travel Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
New South Wales is a state of great diversity, encompassing a 1400km coastline of magnificent beaches, fertile river valleys and hinterland areas, the winter playground of the Snowy Mountains and Mount Kosciusko, and the vast plains west of the Great Dividing Range.
After the American War of Independence, Britain had nowhere to send her convicted criminals, and at the suggestion of Sir Joseph Banks, who had sailed with Cook, it was decided that Botany Bay would be ideal as a penal settlement.
The gold rushes of the 1850s swelled the population further and today New South Wales is Australia's most populous state.
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 Little Hills Press | Travel Info | NSW : Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Sydney is the capital city of the State of New South Wales, the birthplace of the Nation of Australia, and the largest city in the country.
It is located on the south-east coast of Australia, latitude 33' 53" south, longitude 151' 13" east, on the shores of Sydney Harbour, arguably the most beautiful harbour in the world.
When the Hotel was being refurbished by the new owners, the Italian Renaissance Marble Bar was dismantled stone by stone and rebuilt on the completion of the Hotel that stands today.
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 ipedia.com: Local Government Areas of New South Wales Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Local Government Areas of New South Wales, Australia have been subject to periodic bouts of restructuring and rationalisation by the State Government, involving voluntary and involuntary amalgamat...
The Local Government Areas of New South Wales, Australia have been subject to periodic bouts of restructuring and rationalisation by the State Government, involving voluntary and involuntary amalgamation of areas.
As of May 2004 there are 159 Local Government Areas in New South Wales.
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 Late Afternoons at Bourke :: ABC New South Wales
Late Afternoons at Bourke :: ABC New South Wales
On Wednesday, March 22, 2000, thousands of people from all over Western NSW travelled to Bourke for a visit by the Queen and Prince Phillip.
The Bourke visit attracted dozens of groups from surrounding districts.
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 BUG - Backpackers Guide to Northern Territory, Australia
New South Wales has it all – cosmopolitan cities, sandy beaches, lush farming regions, the Snowy Mountains, World Heritage-listed subtropical rainforests and the barren Outback.
The most travelled part of New South Wales is the coastal route heading north to Queensland.
Northern New South Wales, in particular is a hot backpacking destination with thousands of backpackers visiting Byron Bay and the surrounding region.
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This waste of water from uncontrolled bores and from inefficient open earthen bore drain reticulation systems has caused a fall in artesian pressure across much of the Basin, threatening continued access to artesian water by pastoralists and contributing to the loss of groundwater dependant ecosystems.
In addition it has become difficult for new water users in or near the Basin to obtain access to Basin groundwater resources.
The waste of water is causing environmental damage through land and water salinisation, the encouragement of the spread of pest plants and animals, and falling pressure in some naturally occurring artesian springs.
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 John Patrick DALEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Marriage: Harriet Mary HUNT on 18 Aug 1902 in Bourke, New South Wales
John married Harriet Mary HUNT, daughter of Henry HUNT and Mary Ann SMITH, on 18 Aug 1902 in Bourke, New South Wales.
(Harriet Mary HUNT was born on 12 Sep 1867 in Cullen Bullen and died on 21 Jun 1951 in Bourke, New South Wales.)
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