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	Marree, South Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central Australia Railway reached the town in 1884, and the town became a major railhead for the cattle industry.
		In 1957, the line south of Marree was rebuilt as standard gauge on a flatter alignment to support moving coal from Leigh Creek to Port Augusta.
		Marree is in the federal Division of Grey and the state Electoral district of Stuart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marree,_South_Australia (373 words)

	Australia - Uncyclopedia
		Australia is not a racist country however, as its immigration policy does permit former Nazis and Czech war criminals to enter the country.
		Australia is famous for its domestication of the bizarre eucalyptus tree, on which wooden kangaroos and emperor penguins grow.
		Similarly the states of New South Wales, Western Australia, the Northern Territories, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia are all national parks in the island of Tasmania.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Australia (3528 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Afghans of Australia
		Although the number of Afghans coming to Australia was small (no more than 3000) compared with other ethnic groups, their contribution to this country has been much greater than most people realize.
		Marree, with its high concentration of Afghans, was soon referred to as Little Asia.
		Most Afghans who came to Australia were single or if married left their wives behind as they expected to return wealthy in the not too distant future.
	www.afghanland.com /culture/australia.html (1344 words)

	Search For A Standard In Australia
		In South Australia, the colony agreed to federation, on the condition that the commonwealth government build two railways - one from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia to Port Augusta, South Australia and the other from Marree, South Australia to Darwin, Northern Territory.
		South East division from Naracoorte on the Broad Gauge line to Melbourne, to Mount Gambier Kingston SE and Beach Port and Robe.
		In the South East of South Australia the network was converted to Broad gauge between 1955 and 1956.
	www.discoverlivesteam.com /magazine/40.html (1300 words)

	ACRES IMAGE GALLERY PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This picture of the "Marree Man" (left) was produced from a Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) image acquired on 28 June, 1998 (WRS 99-80), using bands 1,4,7.
		The area is an eroded plateau to the south and east of the dryland salt lake, Lake Eyre, about 600km north of Adelaide, South Australia.
		The nearest town is Marree, a small village roughly 20 km to the east.
	www.ga.gov.au /acres/gallery/marree.htm (162 words)

	Avalook Australia News, tips and hints for travellers and tourists
		We headed for Marree, but were soon diverted to the ochre cliffs, a magnificent depression of many coloured ochres, less than a kilometre from the road.
		Marree was formerly the change point at which the fast diesel trains from Adelaide or Port Augusta stopped, and the old narrow-gauge Ghan line to Alice Springs commenced.
		William Creek (S28.54.376 E136.20.379) is one of the smallest towns in Australia, with a population of 16.
	www.avalook.com.au /newsletr/oznews26.htm (2699 words)

	Travelguides Featured Destination: South Australia
		South of the town of Clare is the Jesuit's Sevenhills Cellars, the oldest winery in South Australia.
		Robe, which is reminiscent of a Mediterranean fishing village, is a charming old seaport town and one of South Australia's earliest settlements.
		The Mighty Murray River, Australia's greatest river, was once the watery corridor of transport for an expanding pioneer colony.
	www.travelguides.com /destinations/south_australia (877 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)

	MARREE MAN - THE EVIDENCE
		Anthropologists in South Australia are arguing over the cultural authenticity of the desert drawing known as the Marree Man, which may be more accurate than first believed.
		The Marree Man, gouged out of red soil on a remote plateau 60km outside of the town of Marree on the Oodnadatta track, is the world's largest known art work but its authorship is unknown.
		A South Australian anthropologist says the notable similarities between the Marree Man and the throwing stance of the figure (Far Left) and the distinctive hair style of the Man (Right) provide clues to who made the drawing.
	www.geocities.com /curiosities3/evidence.htm (984 words)

	Marree - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		The area around Marree was first explored by Europeans when, in 1840, Edward John Eyre travelled north from Spencer Gulf and reached the southern shores of Lake Eyre South.
		It was named Marree, a word which is supposed to mean 'place of possums' in the language of the local Aborigines.
		Near the town's solitary pub is a white plaque commemorating the Simpson Desert expedition of 1939 in which Cecil T. Madigan and his party crossed the harsh dry region to the north of the town.
	www.smh.com.au /news/South-Australia/Marree/2005/02/17/1108500204407.html (959 words)

	Gans of Australia :: Khyber.ORG
		In the early 19th century, when Australia was being opened up and its pastoral potential was being realised, the harsh and arid heartland presented seemingly insurmountable problems.
		In 1903, when Australia passed the White Australia policy, non-White residents were not allowed to acquire nationality or bring in their wives and dependents.
		Once people were kept out of Australia because of the colour of their skin, now they may be kept out because of their faith.
	www.khyber.org /articles/2004/GansofAustralia.shtml (1190 words)

	South Australia travel, Australia travel, Adelaide Australia, Adelaide travel
		ADELAIDE is always thought of as a gracious city and an easy place to live; despite a population of around one million and a slick veneer of sophistication, it still has the feel of an overgrown country town.
		Although the island is promoted as South Australia's premier destination for tourism, it's still very unspoilt and the locals are as friendly as ever; only in the peak holiday period (Christmas to the end of Jan, when most of the accommodation is booked up) does it feel busy.
		Kangaroo Island is possibly the best place in Australia to see an astonishing range of wildlife, largely untroubled by disease or natural predators, with a third of the landmass protected in the form of national or conservation parks.
	www.escortedaustraliatours.com /thingstodosouthaustralia.htm (2471 words)

	Marree
		Its first name was Hergott Springs, and for a long time Marree was a staging post for the camel trains used to transport heavy goods north and south along the Oodnadatta and Birdsville Tracks.
		Approximately 130 kilometres west of Marree are some fine examples of the many mound springs found in the area.
		LAKE EYRE SOUTH South Australia's giant inland ocean, Lake Eyre is 81 kilometres west of Marree and can be seen from the Oodnadatta Track.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/southaustralia/marree.asp (419 words)

	Marree Hergott Springs
		For there is no doubt that small towns like Marree breed big people and towns like Marree have had and will have an influence on the nation far beyond their size, for Marree has for a long time been in the forefront of development and from its inception a transport and supply town.
		In those few words Mr Gigney was able to sum up the main cycles of Marree's history and the contribution made to it by the Aborigines, Afghans and white migrants who called the town home.
		Although the official name was Marree, which comes from the Aboriginal word Mari meaning place of many possums, the name Hergott Springs was used until World War I, when it was dropped as a result of the ill feeling towards Germany and German migrants in South Australia.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /marree.htm (965 words)

	German Placenames in South Australia
		In 1914 there were many German placenames in Australia, particularly in the state of South Australia (where there were at least 69 German placenames).
		In 1917 (during the First World War) the government of South Australia changed 69 German placenames and names of geographical features.
		South Australia's population also included a greater number of Germans and Australians of German descent than any other state.
	www.teachers.ash.org.au /dnutting/germanaustralia/e/ortsnamensa.htm (188 words)

	Marree Health Service
		Marree is 100km south of Lake Eyre and 121km north of Leigh Creek.
		Marree's population is about a third European descent, a third Aboriginal descent and a third Afghan descent.
		Of the approximately 120 in Marree, 40 are children, 7 are aged pensioners, approximately 25 to 30 are employed and the remaining are looking for work or are parents at home or single parents.
	www.nfwrhs.sa.gov.au /marree (240 words)

	The Birdsville Track South Australian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The track from Marree in South Australia to Birdsville in Queensland, is the best known and loneliest road in Australia.
		It was opened up in the 1860s to bring cattle from the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland to the nearest railhead which at that time was Port Augusta.
		Drovers with mobs of cattle of a thousand or more travelling south, and Afghan cameleers driving camel trains of up to a hundred camels north carrying station supplies, were common before the days of motor transport.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /birdsvil.htm (583 words)

	South Australian holidays, travel and tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Aboriginal groups have long been trading high-grade red ochre from the north of South Australia to the farthest reaches of the country and the ochre is still used today for many traditional ceremonies.
		Be part of the splendour and romance of historic cattle drives when you saddle up for the journey in 2007.
		South Australia's Outback is vast and isolated, with few towns and facilities.
	www.southaustralia.com /product.asp?product_id=9002843 (745 words)

	Marree, Australia
		For many years Marree was a staging post for the Afghan-led camel trains of the 19th C. Of the camel-men's settlement, known as Ghan Town, only ruins remain.
		The Ghan railroad which later followed the old trade route also passed through Marree, and the cattle which had been driven from Queensland on the Birdsville Track were loaded on to the train here.
		After the line was interrupted by flooding, however, it was moved further west towards Tarcoola.
	www.planetware.com /australia/marree-aus-sa-mre.htm (150 words)

	Birdsville, Australia
		The little township lies on the Birdsville Track, the long and toilsome route along which herds of cattle were driven to Marree in South Australia to be loaded on to trains.
		At the end of the 19th C. Birdsville, originally called Diamantina Crossing because of its situation at a crossing of the (often dry) Diamantina River, was a busy little township thanks to the cattle-droving traffic and its function as a customs post near the border with South Australia.
		After the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 the duty on the export of cattle was abolished and the town's income disappeared.
	www.planetware.com /australia/birdsville-aus-qld-bv.htm (321 words)

	CROP CIRCLE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, LLC - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		South of Lima, covers an area of approximately 450 km2, of sandy desert as well as the slopes of the contours of the Andes.
		A charter pilot at Marree in South Australia's far north says he has been "flat out" since the recent discovery of a huge outline of an Aboriginal man in the nearby desert.
		The Marree man's stance indicated he was carrying a boomerang, but it was drawn from such an angle that the curve could not be seen.
	www.cciam.com /about (4839 words)

	William Creek, South Australia, Australia - Where To Stay
		Australia -> South Australia -> Flinders and Outback -> William Creek
		The Birdsville Track runs from Birdsville in the Western Corner of Outback Queensland to Marree in South Australia, a total of 509km.
		The track was developed in the 1880's as one of Australia's first North-South cattle routes.
	www.wheretostay.com.au /index.htm?qt=William_Creek.SA.au (201 words)

	AusEmade: Marree Outback Information, Attractions and Destination Guide, South Australia (SA), Australia
		Recommended as a tourist attraction is the local cemetery, and the last resting place of the Aboriginal, European, Afghan populations, who worked the railway and surrounding station properties in the area.
		Gulf Getaways in Port Augusta are hoping to operate a bus service by the end of 2006, otherwise it’s by your own private jet to Marree airstrip, hitchhike or car.
		The Dog Fence • Just 40 km from Marree is where you will come across the longest fence in the world (also the longest man made structure) — the 5,300 km Dog Fence built to separate the rich sheep-growing areas in the south from the dingoes of central Australia.
	www.ausemade.com.au /sa/destination/m/marree-attractions.htm (732 words)

	The other end of the road - South Australia - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au
		Australia's most famous outback road runs from Marree (South Australia) to Birdsville (Queensland) through some wild and remote desert country.
		Marree was originally named Hergott Springs, after a Bavarian artist and naturalist (actually Herrgott) who found the nearby permanent springs along with explorer J. McDouall Stuart.
		Visitors to Marree can also see the restored mosque, soak up the atmosphere of the Ghan, and check out the battered truck used by the legendary outback character Tom Kruse to deliver mail to remote cattle stations along the Birdsville Track in the 1950s.
	www.theage.com.au /news/south-australia/the-other-end-of-the-road/2005/06/24/1119321899131.html (406 words)

	Discover South Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		South Australia's Outback is one of the world's truly unspoilt areas.
		The springs are part of the Witjira National Park, a desert park on the edge of the Simpson Desert, just 10 kilometres south of the South Australian and Northern Territory border.
		The Oodnadatta Track is the original gateway into Outback Australia but today it is also the gateway to the Simpson Desert, Lake Eyre, the artesian Mound Springs, the spectacularly vast moon and stony gibber plains and the beautiful painted desert landscapes of the Stuart Range.
	www.southaustralia.co.nz /SiteResources/Data/Templates/satc_normal.asp?docid=218 (2018 words)

	Welcome to the Marree Hotel
		The Victorian style building of two storeys has a well detailed exterior, with ground floor window arch keystones, a hip and gable roof and is a solid construction of sandstone.
		The history of the hotel parallels the history of Marree as a frontier cattle and railway town in the Outback of South Australia.
		The Marree Hotel’s friendly and helpful staff look forward to welcoming you to their historic hotel on your visit to Outback South Australia.
	www.sahotels.com.au /marree/index.asp (347 words)

	Chlamydogobius eremius desert goby
		26KK jpeg Male, 45mm (1.8in) TL from Coward Springs Railway Bore, Marree, South Australia.
		70KK jpeg An overturned rock with a clutch of desert goby eggs from Freeling Springs, William Creek, South Australia.
		This is the only species in central Australia which has undergone extensive field study (Glover 1971; 1973).
	desertfishes.org /australia/fish/chlaerem.shtml (449 words)

	Shipping News Items, Australia 1844, Mar-May
		Trinidad, in 21° south latitude, is in the route of all vessels bound from Europe or America to India, China, the Cape, Brazils, Chili, Peru, Australia, andc., as also in their home route from a number of these places.
		St Paul’s in 39° south latitude, midway between the Cape and Australia, is similarly circumstanced to Trinidad, as ships bound to India, China, Australia andc, usually make it to adjust their chronometers.
		In evidence of the utility of that gentleman’s invention, the vessel was struck by lightning in South Australia without receiving the slightest damage.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/australia/aunews1844.htm (6278 words)

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