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  Morgan, South Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morgan is a town in South Australia on the right bank of the Murray River, just downstream of where it turns from flowing roughly westwards to roughly southwards.
A large wharf was built, and Morgan became one of the busiest ports on the Murray.
Morgan is in the Mid Murray Council local government area, the state electoral district of Stuart, and the federal Division of Barker.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morgan,_South_Australia   (286 words)

  
 Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morgan was settled in the late 1870s, when Sir William Morgan MP was chief secretary.
At one point, when the railway line from Adelaide to Morgan was completed, it was one of the busiest river ports along the entire Murray-Darling river system.
In the town's old railway buildings on the waterfront at Morgan, this museum displays artefacts and photographs from the river's paddlesteamer past and rail history.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/southaustralia/morgan.asp   (352 words)

  
 Breeds of Livestock - Morgan Horse
Born in 1789, Justin Morgan started life as a small, rough-coated colt known as "Figure." In 1791, he left his birthplace in Springfield, Massachusetts with his new owner, the soft-spoken schoolteacher Justin Morgan, by whose name the stallion eventually became known.
Morgan coats are predominantly chestnut, bay, or brown, although many fl, palomino, buckskin, and even a few grays appear in the breed.
A bit of the hard-working, determined Morgan legend is with us whenever a Morgan carries a saddle-weary cowhand down a Montana mountain, pulls a carriage around a grueling obstacle course in record time, quietly carries children along a wooded path, or flashes around show rings with a style that causes spectators to cheer.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/horses/morgan   (1148 words)

  
 Morgan - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
The reason for this was that smart investors realised that the arrival of the railway that year would ensure that the town became one of the major transport nodes on the river.
In a few years Morgan was the second-busiest port (after Port Adelaide) in South Australia loading and unloading both trains and steamers.
Located in the old railway buildings on the riverfront, the Port of Morgan Historic Museum's display includes the PW Mayflower (1884) the oldest paddle wheeler in South Australia and an impressive display of memorabilia much of which relates to the town's era when it was an important port.
smh.com.au /news/South-Australia/Morgan/2005/02/17/1108500204472.html   (801 words)

  
 South Australia :: Business Gateway :: SA Regions :: Murray Lands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Australia's longest river - the River Murray - is a part of the Murraylands region's distinctive environment.
The region includes the river towns of Mannum, Swan Reach, Blanchetown and Morgan (to the north of Murray Bridge), and Tailem Bend and Meningie (to the south of Murray Bridge).
Thirty per cent of South Australia's onions and potatoes are grown in the region and a similar proportion of the State's glasshouse industry (tomatoes, cucumbers and capsicums).
www.southaustralia.biz /sa_regions/murray_lands.htm   (600 words)

  
 Australia: Australian Morgan. More about the Australian Morgan
For over 20 years, Australian Morgan fanciers thought that Sultan, Sundance and Fashion were the first Morgans imported to Australia, in 1974, but it appears that this is not the case.
So it appears that Morgans were imported to both Australia and New Zealand over 100 years ago, though their blood has been diluted into the Standardbred lines and lost.
Trillium arrived in foal to Royalton Ashline and the colt foal, Eiben's Ashline, was born in February 1995.
www.ozehorses.com /australianhorses/MORGAN.shtml   (468 words)

  
 Sculptor.Org - Sculptors and Sculpture in Australia
She is also known for carving a life-size statue of The Blessed Mother Mary MacKillop, which is the shrine at the convent of the Sisters of St Joseph at Norwood, South Australia.
Art Gallery of New South Wales Formally established in 1874, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is home to some of the world's most outstanding collections of art.
South Australian School of Art The South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia, has a long and proud history.
www.sculptor.org /Countries/Australia.htm   (1864 words)

  
 GovMint.com - The Morgan Silver Dollar: America’s Most Famous Silver Coin
Morgan was witness to dramatic changes taking place all around him — from the winning of the West to World War I, and from the Wright Brothers’ flight to Babe Ruth taking the baseball world by storm.
The government's demand for the Morgan Silver Dollar in its own time can be judged by the fact that it is the only non-gold U.S. coin to be struck at five different Mints — Philadelphia, San Francisco, Carson City, New Orleans, and Denver.
No one knows for sure how many historic Morgan Silver Dollars still remain today, but it is known beyond a doubt that they are one of the most popular and widely collected American coins in the world.
www.govmint.com /knowledgebase/morgansilver.aspx   (1404 words)

  
 Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Morgan is both a given name and a surname, as well as the name of many places.
Many Welsh families emigrated to Australia and the USA, thus many founding families in those countries carried the surname Morgan, which is reflected in a number of place names.
Morgan le Fay is the half-sister of King Arthur.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morgan   (735 words)

  
 Morgan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Below is the grave (row D, 182) of Penry and Elizabeth (nanna and dadda Morgan) in the Holy Trinity churchyard at Pontnewydd, Cwmbran.
Buried with Muriel are the ashes of her daughter Theresa (Tessie) who died in Australia and her ashes were brought back by her son Paul.
In the second are Nellie Jones (nee Tamplin), wife of Penry Morgan (jnr) and her second husband Alfred Jones.
www.morgan-uk.freeservers.com /Graves.html   (410 words)

  
 South Australia :: Business Gateway :: Migration
South Australia offers many and varied job opportunities in the private and public sectors across a range of key thriving industries.
And South Australia also offers some of the nation’s most affordable housing, a world-class education system from pre-school to university, and an innovative and creative business environment.
South Australian options include child care centres, family day care, early learning programs, occasional care programs, play-centres and out-of-school hours care programs or vacation care.
www.southaustralia.biz /move/jobs_on_offer.htm   (188 words)

  
 Murray River Cruises - Goway Travel Experiences
From its source in the Snowy Mountains of NSW, to the Southern Ocean near Adelaide, the Murray/Darling Basin square kilometres of land.
She represents a new age in inland cruising and an elegant recreation of a bygone era.
Each week she embarks on a fascinating 170km journey upriver to the historic port of Morgan and return.
www.goway.com /downunder/australia/saus/mr_river_cruises.html   (531 words)

  
 Morgan South Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Once the busiest port in South Australia, Morgan has preserved its history with considerable flair for visitors to enjoy.
PS Mayflower, at over 100 years old the oldest operating paddle-steamer in South Australia, is permanently moored here.
Morgan is also home-port for an impressive fleet of houseboats for hire.
www.totaltravel.com.au /travel/sa/riverlands/waikerie/guide/morgan   (362 words)

  
 [Roy Morgan Research] Morgan Poll
In September - October, primary support for the ALP in South Australia fell 3% to 50%, while support for the Liberal Party rose 1% to 33%.
The South Australian Government said that despite opposing the plan it has no influence over the Victorian Government’s plan to build a toxic waste dump near the South Australian border.
This Morgan Poll on South Australian State Voting Intention was cond ucted face-to-face among 528 electors throughout South Australia during the months of September and October 2005.
www.roymorgan.com /news/polls/2005/3919   (665 words)

  
 Mount Morgan, Australia
When mining was at its peak, at the beginning of the 20th C., the town was many times its present size.
With its old mining installations and buildings (courthouse, Queensland National Hotel, Grand Hotel, railroad station, suspension bridge), Mount Morgan is classified as a Heritage Town.
It is named after the Morgan brothers, who founded a mining company here in 1882.
www.planetware.com /australia/mount-morgan-aus-qld-mtm.htm   (120 words)

  
 HYBRIDISATION IN CARPET SNAKES GENUS: MORELIA (SERPENTES:PYTHONINAE) AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN PYTHONS, CARPET PYTHONS, ...
This one involved a keeper in the State of South Australia whose name has been suppressed for the purposes of this paper.
Hybridisation of species in captivity is illegal in South Australia.
The breeding involved a male Murray/Darling Carpet Python (Morelia metcalfei) from Morgan, South Australia, Lat: 34°02’S Long: 139°40’E and a female Bredl’s Python (Morelia bredli) from Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Lat: 23°42’S Long: 133°52’E. 22 eggs were laid and eighteen eggs hatched on 16 January 1997.
www.smuggled.com /PytRev2c.htm   (714 words)

  
 South Australia Travel Guides : South Australia
South Australia, the driest state of the driest continent, is split into two very distinct halves.
In contrast with the gentle and cultured southeast, the remainder of South Australia - with the exception of the relatively refined Eyre Peninsula and its strikingly scenic west coast - is unremittingly harsh desert, a naked country of vast horizons, salt lakes, glazed gibber plains and ancient mountain ranges.
The Ghan to Alice Springs is one of Australia's great train journeys; as is the Indian Pacific between Perth and Sydney, which passes through Adelaide - though if you hop on the eastbound train here, you'll have missed traversing part of the country, which is really the point of the journey.
www.travelpages.com /australia/sa/guides   (617 words)

  
 Australia
Breeze Holiday Houseboats is situated in Mannum on the River Murray in South Australia.
Kanandah houseboat hire on the River Murray in South Australia.
Odyssey River Cruises on the River Murray of South Australia.
www.atn.com.au /links/houseboats-australia.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Bony Bream, Nematalosa erebi
The Bony Bream is a relatively deep-bodied, compressed species with a blunt snout and bony toothless lower jaw.
In Australia it is known from freshwaters drainages across the north of the country and south through Queensland and inland New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.
Briggs, I.C. and R.M. McDowall in McDowall, R.M. Freshwater Fishes of South-Eastern Australia.
www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/nerebi.htm   (222 words)

  
 MOUNT MORGAN, CAPRICORN COAST, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Experience a complete town tour, see the famous open cut Mount Morgan open cut gold and copper mine, view dinosaur footprints on the ceiling of the clay caves that date back 150 million years and are an eerie reminder of prehistoric times.
Visit Mount Morgan Museum with its wonderful collection displaying and reflecting the lifestyle of a mining town.
The Heritage Mt Morgan Steam Railway Complex where they operate a fully restored Hunslette Steam Locomotive, purchased from England in 1904 and worked at the mine until 1947.
www.australianexplorer.com /mount_morgan.htm   (221 words)

  
 WATER: Murray River farmers face man-made 'permanent drought' - 6 September 2003
Then we have politicians having photo shoots at the closed mouth of the Murray in South Australia and claiming this is an environmental disaster, illustrating the degraded health of the river.
Salinity levels in the Basin, as measured at Morgan, South Australia, have reduced substantially since peaking in 1982.
Of all the salt entering the Murray River, approximately half comes into the river in South Australia, which comprises only 6.7% of the catchment area of the basin.
www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2003sep06_w.html   (1068 words)

  
 Orienteering Results for Morgan,South Australia
Just over 30 Yalangans made their way from Adelaide to the warm winter sunshine that Morgan had to offer (never mind the dinner at the Commercial hotel the night before.
So with the large number of Yalangans who turned up early on Sunday to set up, things were falling nicely into place by the time the first competitors lined up to start.
Sincere thanks to the many Yalangans who turned up to the event to lend a hand, especially those who gave up their time to be there without even going out on a course.
www.oasa.asn.au /2001/june24.htm   (436 words)

  
 Peter Stewarts Family Research - Morgan
The Morgan family came to Adelaide South Australia in 1853 aboard the Shackamaxon when Charles was only 3 years of age.
Shortly after 1891 it would appear they returned to South Australia, perhaps the death of the last child Henry Bidmead prompted the shift back home.
Much of the Morgan research has been kindly supplied to me by Elizabeth Doyle, Liz Willanski and from previous research by Margaret Livingstone.
www.stewartonline.org /morgan.htm   (413 words)

  
 Morgan, South Australia - Travelmate
One of the busiest of South Australian Murray River ports, Morgan is 165 km north-east of Adelaide by road and 315km by water from the river’s entrance to Lake Alexandrina.
The Morgan heritage trail takes you on the round of the town’s historic buildings and towering wharves.
Across the river from the town, Morgan Conservation Park is a favourite haunt for fossil fossickers, while Hogwash Flat Park is recognised as one of the best fishing spots in the region.
www.travelmate.com.au /Places/Places.asp?TownName=Morgan_\_SA   (285 words)

  
 Waikerie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From Morgan the Murray River takes a sharp bend east, meandering south to WAIKERIE; it’s 32km from Morgan to Waikerie on a riverside road, with a crossing at Cadell.
Waikerie is at the heart of the largest citrus-growing area in Australia and has a
On the north side of the river you find important fossil deposits, one of the few places in Australia where crystallised gypsum fossils exist in great number.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/southaustralia/waikerie.asp   (206 words)

  
 Morgan Electro Ceramics Feedback Form
Where you provide personal data to us such data will be used only for the service you have requested, and only by Morgan staff and the Web site administrators.
The Morgan sites do not automatically capture or store personal data from visitors to the site, other than to log the user’s IP address and session information such as the duration of the visit to the site and the nature of the browser used.
This information is used only for administration of the site system and in the compilation of statistics used by Morgan web site management to assess the use of the site.
www.morganelectroceramics.com /feedback.htm   (164 words)

  
 PERSONAL DETAILS - GEORGE CRAIG
After having completed 6 years in the Australian Army purchased a Country Hotel near Morgan, South Australia.
In 1980 went to South Africa where I lived and worked in the Johannesburg area.
Since 1983 have lived and worked in Adelaide, South Australia.
www.angelfire.com /ca/realcatholic/personals.html   (132 words)

  
 Armani ad coup for ACP title | Media | The Australian
ACP Magazines's Men's Style Australia has secured the launch of the global advertising and editorial campaign for a new Giorgio Armani fragrance.
Men's Style Australia recorded a year-on-year readership rise of 6 per cent to 66,000 in the September Roy Morgan readership survey.
The ad campaign, shot by acclaimed photographer Peter Lindbergh, premiered in Australia in advance of its main US rollout.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20904367-7582,00.html   (181 words)

  
 Morgan Simpson Wines
Morgan Simpson is a small McLaren Vale wine producer located in the foothills of the South Mount Lofty Ranges.
Science - Wine Science, CSU) selects small parcels of fruit from the Clos Robert vineyard (first planted by Robert Allen Simpson in 1972).
We have done consistently well in wine shows around Australia.
www.morgansimpson.com.au   (147 words)

  
 GovMint.com - Morgan Silver Dollars 1878 to 1904, 1921
Morgan Silver Dollars were minted continuously from 1878 until 1904, when the Comstock Lode was exhausted and the silver bullion supply ran out.
As far as Morgan and the rest of the nation were concerned, the era of the Silver Dollar had come to an end.
To read more about Morgan Dollars click here.
www.govmint.com /countrylistings/northamerica/usa/morganlist.aspx   (89 words)

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