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South Australia

	South Australia - LoveToKnow 1911
		The literature is catalogued in Gill's Bibliography of South Australia (Adelaide, 1885), and that of the Lake Eyre basin and its adjacent islands in J. Gregory, The Dead Heart of Australia (1906).
		South Australia was founded when the tide of the laissez-faire regime was running high, and a patriotic bias in the customs tariff was regarded as an unwarrantable restriction; it is therefore not surprising that free trade should at the outset have received many adherents.
		South Australia holds in reverent and loving memory the name of John Anderson Hartley, the originator of the state school system, who died in 1896, and to whose character as a man and genius as an organizer the schools of South Australia will remain as a perennial monument.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /South_Australia (8565 words)

	Lake Alexandrina (South Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The water in the lake is maintained as fresh water by a series of barrages across the islands near the Murray Mouth.
		Lake Alexandrina is connected by a narrow channel to the smaller Lake Albert to the south-east.
		In Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime the lake is inhabited by a monster known as the Muldjewangk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Alexandrina,_South_Australia (273 words)

	South Australia
		South Australia is a land of generally low relief with the inland area largely covered by plains, sand and gibber deserts.
		South Australia enjoys hot dry summers with relatively mild nights and cool winters, with most rainfall occurring during May to August.Adelaide's average daily maximum temperature in January is 29 C, and in July 15 C. South Australia is the driest of the Australian States and Territories.
		The coat of arms of South Australia was conferred by Queen Elizabeth II in 1984.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~enigman/australia/sa.html (1459 words)

	Lake Alexandrina, South Australia
		Lake Alexandrina is located adjacent to the coast of the Southern Ocean, about 100 kilometers south-east of Adelaide.
		The lake empties into the sea near Goolwa (the channel is known as the Murray Mouth), but when the river flow is low the entrance is often blocked by a sand-bar.
		The water in the lake is maintained as fresh water by a series of barrage s across the islands near the Murray Mouth.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/lake_alexandrina,_south_australia (230 words)

	SOUTH AUSTRALIA - Online Information article about SOUTH AUSTRALIA
		principal island belonging to South Australia is Kangaroo Island, situated at the mouth of the Gulf of St Vincent; it is also the longest Australian island, measuring 210 M. by 85 m.
		Climate.—The climate of South Australia proper is, on the whole, extremely healthy, and in many respects resembles that of southern Europe.
		In 187o the population stood at 183,797, and in 188o at 267,573; in 1890 it was 319,414; in 19o1, 362,604; and at the end of 1905, 378,208.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOUTH_AUSTRALIA.html (5385 words)

	The Annotated Ramsar List: Australia
		The open lakes are used for moulting by thousands of Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides and for drought refuge by tens of thousands of other ducks, while the sedge/shrub-dominated swamps support an important population of Australasian Bittern Botaurus poiciloptilus and three types of nationally vulnerable orchids.
		Numerous lakes varying in depth and salinity from hypersaline to fresh water, which serve as a drought refuge for tens of thousands of ducks, swans, coots and other waterbirds.
		The lakes are used for recreational purposes, fishing and duck hunting as well as grazing, commercial fishing, and waste water disposal.
	www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_australia.htm (7047 words)

	Murray Lakes geography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Australia's largest river system finishes its journey to the sea in broad and shallow freshwater lakes.
		The Murray Lakes are big and shallow: Lake Alexandrina, the largest, is some 360 sq km, with depths mainly 10-12 feet shoaling to 6 feet.
		In summer, winds tend to be light airs in the morning or gentle south-easterlies, and in the afternoon south to south-east sea breezes at 25+ knots.
	www.ace.net.au /schooner/mlakes.htm (1273 words)

	Papers - La Nina de Australia
		Lake Eyre, a large depression in arid Australia which rarely fills with water, attracts the interest of limnologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists and ecologists all over the world.
		The quest for an "inland sea" in Australia was a driving force for numerous expeditions penetrating central Australia in the XIX century.
		Europeans have never lived within sight of the lake, and even so, due to very low bottom gradients and atmospheric deceptions, an explorer venturing to the shore would have difficulties in seeing water at a distance when the lake is only partially filled.
	www.k26.com /eyre/The_Lake/Papers/La_Nina_de_Australia/la_nina_de_australia.html (7029 words)

	Milang - Historic Port on the Lake: In the Fleurieu Peninsula region of South Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the shores of Australia’s largest inland lake, the historic port of Milang sits on a limestone rise.
		Lake Alexandrina was named for the British princess who would soon become Queen Victoria, while a tribe of the Ngarrindjeri aboriginal nation called this “a place of sorcery”, Milangk.
		The cottage-like motel overlooks Lake Alexandrina, and the caravan park runs the gamut of greens from the milky lake water to the dark tonings of the pine trees behind it.
	www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/milang.html (1033 words)

	New South Wales & Victoria
		One of the longest rivers on earth, the Murray uncoils for 2500 kilometres from its birthplace in the Snowy Mountains before it reaches the sea at Lake Alexandrina, south-east of Adelaide.
		Ned Kelly, Australia's favourite outlaw, was briefly held in the sandstone jail, one of the town's many impressive buildings.
		Mildura is the centre of a vast fruit-growing region that thrives on abundant sunshine and a vast irrigation project that was begun by the Canadian Chaffey brothers.
	www.australianwinetours.com /vicnsw.htm (502 words)

	South Australia
		Most people, when they think of South Australia picture Adelaide, its fine elegant capital, or the wine-growing regions of the Barossa Valley or the Coonawarra, or perhaps the spine of mountains that is the Flinders Ranges, the great expanse of shifting sand of the Simpson Desert or the flatness that is the Nullarbor Plain.
		All these are, most definitely, images of South Australia, but the state has much more to offer a traveller than just a few isolated images and experiences stretched across a large slice of Australia.
		That makes South Australia the driest state in the driest continent on earth—anywhere away from the more luxuriant south-east of the state the country ranges from semi-arid to desert.
	www.worldtourism.com.au /SouthAustralia (1336 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		South Australia offers some 440 species of Australian birds, and habitat areas available in South Australia comprise a mix of waterways, wetlands and mudflats, heath and hilly timbered areas, the famous semi-dry mallee, and the deserts.
		The South Australian Ornithological Association has been in existence since 1899, and is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the conservation and study of Australian native birds.
		Philip Maher was born in Deniliquin, in south-western New South Wales in 1954.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/australasia/australia_south_australia.html (2234 words)

	SOUTH AUSTRALIA, THINGS TO DO IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, SA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA INFORMATION, ATTRACTIONS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
		South Australia, with it's huge semi-desert areas in the far Outback, is the driest out of all of the states and also the most urbanised.
		Adelaide, the capital, has been called 'the city of churches' and is home to 80% of the regions population of roughly 1.47 million, living in 984,277 sq km.
		Beaches continue along the Far South East of South Australia, while inland there is more agriculture in the Mid North.
	www.australianexplorer.com /south_australia.htm (432 words)

	Orange-bellied Parrot - Neophema chrysogaster
		It ranged from Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, along the coasts to Bruny Island in southern Tasmania, and to Sydney, New South Wales.
		Adults first reach Victoria in late March and disperse east as far as coastal South Gippsland, and as far west as Lake Alexandrina in South Australia, by April.
		Most of the population over-winters in saltmarsh habitat in central Victoria while the remainder moves west to the coast of South Australia.
	www.birdsaustralia.com.au /birds/obp.html (253 words)

	The Coorong in South Australia
		The Lakes Alexandrina and Albert form the mouth of the River Murray and are comprised of fresh to saline waters.
		The lakes form a natural wetland system with the associated shoreline marshes at the mouth of the River Murray and are connected with the Coorong lagoon.
		The wetland consists of ocean beach, the mouth of the River Murray, the lakes and estuaries.
	www.coorongcruises.com.au /thecoorong.html (573 words)

	Lake Albert (South Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Lake Albert (35°37′S 139°18′E) is a notionally fresh water lake near the mouth of the Murray River.
		It is filled by water flowing in from Lake Alexandrina at its mouth near Narrung.
		It is separated on the south by the Narrung Peninsula from the salt-water Coorong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Albert,_South_Australia (140 words)

	Basin Overview - Murray Darling Basin Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Extending from north of Roma in Queensland to Goolwa in South Australia and including three quarters of New South Wales and half of Victoria it is the heartland and the economic powerhouse of rural Australia.
		For fish and other riverine life forms, the Murray-Darling Basin is a vast interconnected network, stretching from the saline lakes of the Coorong estuary, east to the alpine streams of the Snowy Mountains and north to the inland semi-arid and table land streams of southern Queensland.
		In the south many rivers now have low flows in winter and spring when rain in their catchments is being captured in the storages.
	www.mdbc.gov.au - !http: //www.mdbc.gov.au/about/basin_overview (858 words)

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		Not to be left out from the rest of the world, Australia's Aborigines have their own reports of hulking reptiles roaming the land down under.
		Tribes from the Lake Alexandrina, South Australia tell of a Dreamtime beast that is taller then the trees.
		Since large monitors are known to have existed in Australia with the Aborigines it's thought they could simply be displaying this behavior in their cave art.
	cryptosquared.tripod.com /poptheories/livingdinos2.html (1973 words)

	murray_cod
		Reputed to attain lengths of 1.5m (4.9ft) and weights up to 90kg (1981b) the Murray cod is one of Australia's finest table fish and when taken on sporting tackle is a worthy opponent for any angler.
		Dams stocking cod are Burrinjuck Dam at the junction of the Murrumbidgee and the Coodradigbee rivers (near the southern tablelands town of Yass).
		While artificial lakes are not their natural environment, Murray cod do well in those at lower altitudes, and become particularly active during the period between October and May. 'Trolling behind a boat is another technique: large lures pulled around areas holding dead trees have taken many a dam dwelling Murray cod.
	www.shoalhaven.net.au /~shafc/Species/murray_cod.html (1439 words)

	An Information Resource on Tourism for South East , South Australia, Australia
		South Australia's south east corner has volcanic origins which form many of the area natural attractions.
		Once craters, and now a series of lakes, Mt Gambier is a major centre of this region.
		The Coorong is a unique area curving along the south coast of South Australia, extending from Lake Alexandrina in the north to the small town of Kingston in the south.
	www.oztravel.com.au /travel_mall/destinations/South_East_SA1.html (255 words)

	Melbourne names its new boss \| Reel Time \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Australia's best year was 2004, when cinemagoers dug into their pockets for $907.2 million, prompted by an estimated advertising spend of $200 million.
		The Da Vinci Code is the biggest box-office earner in Australia so far this year, with a tally of $26.1 million up to last Sunday night.
		shores of Lake Alexandrina in South Australia in 2004.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19759929-15803,00.html (919 words)

	Australian Geography
		As you travel further north or west the terrain becomes increasingly drier and more inhospitable; the outback, which takes up more then 75% of the state's area, is largely semi-desert.
		The state's most important watercourse is the Murray River, which rises in the Australian Alps and meets the sea by Lake Alexandrina.
		South Australia has a Mediterranean climate of hot, dry summers and cool winters, with most rain falling between May and August.
	studyinaustralia.gov.au /Sia/en/LivingInAustralia/SA.htm (219 words)

	The River Murray, South Australia
		When Sturt reached Lake Alexandrina in 1830, he wrote, 'I could not but regret that the Murray had thus terminated, for I immediately foresaw that in all probability we should be disappointed in finding any practical communication between the lake and the ocean'.
		A few years later George Fife Angas described the area as 'a grand and solem scene, a dull haze shuts out the horizon, and the utter and almost awful solitude is unbroken by any living thing'.
		Ever since Charles Sturt's seventy-seven day trip down Australia's greatest river in 1829-1830, the river has been of utmost importance to South Australia.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /murray.htm (616 words)

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		Beginning 29 October from Corryong situated in the foothills of the Kosiusko Range, van Wisse aims to complete the 2,400 kilometre swim on Australia Day 2001 at Lake Alexandrina in South Australia.
		The record attempt is on behalf of Berri Ltd, Australia’s largest fruit juice manufacturer and the Australian Conservation Foundation, to highlight the fragile state of Australia’s major river systems.
		A Berri Spokesman said, “as Australia’s largest user of citrus fruits, the company is well aware of the importance water plays for fruit growers”.
	www.murrayriver.com.au /news/tammyswimII.htm (458 words)

	South Australian holidays, travel and tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the driest state on the driest inhabited continent on earth, South Australia might not be the obvious choice for water sports.
		You'll find great canoeing trails right along the length of the Murray River in South Australia - from down south at The Coorong and Lake Alexandrina to the northern reaches in the Riverland.
		Hire a canoe or kayak at Backwater Boats in Clayton Bay and explore the bird-filled backwaters of Lake Alexandrina on the Clayton Bay/Dunns Lagoon Canoe Trail.
	www.southaustralia.com /product.asp?product_id=9004300 (338 words)

	The Society for Conservation in Aviculture - Orange Bellied Parrot
		The species migrates from February to late March in order to winter in areas from Gippsland, in Victoria, to the edge of Lake Alexandrina, in South Australia (Brown, 1995).
		The Orange-bellied Parrot is a gramnivore, typically found feeding in the low vegetation of coastal regions such as the button-grass plains in Tasmania.
		On mainland Australia it is likely that foxes and feral cats play a noteworthy contribution to the birds’ low numbers.
	www.thesca.org.uk /articles/obp.html (1952 words)

	AGRICULTURE: Murray River debate hotting up - 26 July 2003
		The salinity levels of the water flowing into South Australia have actually decreased over the past 25 years.
		Indeed without these in-stream structures, the river would be no more than a string of saline pools and dry river bed; Lake Alexandrina in South Australia would be dry; no water would be exiting the river mouth; and Adelaide would be no more than a small country town without a major water supply.
		The evaporation from lakes Alexandria and Albert is more than the total water used in the State.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2003jul26_r.html (1111 words)

	Alexandrina (South Canterbury) - Geocaching Australia
		Great spot; had seen the lake on a tramp in the area last month.
		What a beautiful lake this is. The warmth from the sun was battling the cool for the temperature stakes.
		The water in Lake Tekapo was a brilliant turquoise as we were driving in - this was really spectacular.
	geocaching.com.au /cache/gcha8c (982 words)

	Blue-Green Algae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The report noted that a bloom of cyanobacteria was found in Lake Alexandrina, South Australia.
		Canberra is a large inland city with many people requiring water for their daily needs and there is also a need to manage waste and stormwater.
		The lake system has been designed to help stop sediment and pollutants entering the river system so the quality of downstream water is protected.
	www.liverpool.k12.ny.us /standards/lstandards/curriculum/sci/g6sci/bgalgae.html (909 words)

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