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  South Australia - MSN Encarta
In the south-east are the Mount Lofty and Flinders ranges, and the gulf country of the Eyre, York, and Fleurieu peninsulas and environs, including the famous Barossa Valley wine district.
The south-eastern coastline is distinguished by the long, ecologically remarkable stretch known as the Coorong and, further towards the Victorian border, the picturesque fishing towns of Robe and Beachport, and the major provincial centre, Mount Gambier.
The highest point in the state is Mount Woodroffe 1,435 m (4,708 ft), while the lowest is Lake Eyre at 16 m (52 ft) below sea level.
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  Mount Woodroffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Woodroffe (26°19′S 131°44′E) is South Australia's highest peak, at 1,435 metres.
It is known to the Pitjantjatjara Aborigines as Ngarutjaranya.
It is located in the far North of South Australia, in the Musgrave Ranges, and is named after George Woodroffe Goyder, an early explorer and surveyor in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Woodroffe   (108 words)

  
 1866 - The Mount Stewart Farm Murder
Dr Laing, on reaching Mount Stewart House, found the deceased lying on her side with her hand raised a little, and on the back part of her head were several long marks or gashes, as if inflicted by a heavy blunt instrument.
The farm house of Mount Stewart is on the state of Freeland, and parish of Forgandenny, and stands on a somewhat commanding height at the foot of the Ochils, about 700 yards from the road leading from Forgandenny to Bridge of Earn, and one and two and a half miles from these places respectively.
Mount Stewart farm house, or The Floors, as it used to be called till very recently, is situated about a half a mile to the west of Pitkeathly Wells.
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 Plumbing Products
Woodroffe Equipment Australia have been involved in Stainless Steel production and design for over 50 years and have steadily grown into one of Australia's largest manufacturers of stainless steel products for commercial, industrial and domestic applications.
Woodroffe urinals can also be adapted to suit low water usage systems with the addition of a full length Spreader pipe incorporated into the sparge.
Woodroffe also manufacture the ASSF 107, which is a specifically designed drinking trough, commonly used in schools or public service where 3-6 Bubbler cocks may be required.
www.woodroffe.com.au /?page_id=10   (371 words)

  
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This story of William Edmund Woodroffe (1853-1908) and Ella Rebecca Bonar (1859-1931), farmers near Denmark, Iowa, may be of interest to their 109 descendants - now scattered from Florida to the Philippines - particularly those planning a visit to England.
William Edmund Woodroffe, the son of William Woodroffe and Catherine May Bishop, was born July 11, 1853 at Bath, England.
Woodroffe the DOUBLE WALLS which I had noticed first, at Tur-hill, and afterwards at the Wynd-cliff and near East Vaga House on Tideham Chase; and asked if in his experience in agricultural matters he had found such walls used for mere boundry purposes.
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In the south the rounded hills of the Mount Lofty Ranges are of comparatively low altitude with Mount Lofty, the highest peak, being 727 metres.
Mount Woodroffe (1,435 metres) the highest point in the State is located in the Musgrave Ranges.
The occurrence of snow in South Australia is infrequent and is mainly confined to the Mount Lofty and southern Flinders Ranges.
www.sastormchasers.com /climate/index.html   (3901 words)

  
 Mount Woodroffe - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Mount Woodroffe (26°19′ S 131°44′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=26_19_S_131_44_E_region:AU-SA)) is South Australia's highest peak, at 1,435 metres.
It is known to the Pitjantjatjara Aborigines as Ngarutjaranya.
It is located in the far North of South Australia, in the MacDonnell Ranges, and is named after George Woodroffe Goyder, an early explorer and surveyor in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mount_Woodroffe   (85 words)

  
 North Carolina Permanent Museum Exhibits - Siamese Twins, Granite Quarry, Firehouse
The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History is located in the heart of an area once known as "The Hollows".
The granite quarry was founded by the Woodroffe's; they were instrumental in donating the granite to build two beautiful churches in Mount Airy: the First Baptist Church and Trinity Episcopal Church.
Currently on exhibit in the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History are Tommy's favorite fiddle and an authentic record jacket from one of his original recordings.
www.northcarolinamuseum.org /ncexhibits.aspx   (1990 words)

  
 1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 1927
The country is a peneplain rising from the coast to a height of 4,000 feet at Mount Bruce.
The Mount Lofty Ranges are bounded by fault scarps, which appear as a series of “steps” on both flanks of the uplands.
The chief gap hereabouts is the Omeo “ Gate,” which separates the Victorian portion of the Kosciusko massif (with the Cobboras (6,000) and Mount Gibbo) from the Bogong Plateau.
www.abs.gov.au /ausstats/abs@.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/de8e19c3c280edb3ca2569de001f1088!OpenDocument   (7329 words)

  
 Casestory - Woodroffe Gobo Collection Causes a Stir
When world-acclaimed lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe designed a new set of gobos for the MAC 2000 Profile, his aim was to give a new lease on life to the well-loved and familiar fixture, and in doing so, allow designers to rediscover its potential.
In designing the gobos Woodroffe has been mindful of the need for the images to work for a variety of disciplines and designers - for theatre, for television, for live performance and for installations.
The Woodroffe gobos were concentrated onto two circular cycloramas either side of the stage, across Styrofoam cut-out letters spelling ‘Staging Rentals’ as well as a couple more swinging around the room.
www.martin.com /casestory/casestory.asp?id=1086&language=italian   (623 words)

  
 The Hindu : The old town walls
Woodroffe's, on its present site from 1868 - and in a building still reflecting signs of its original - may not be a big name in commercial Madras today.
For nearly a hundred years, there was a Woodroffe associated with the firm, a connection broken only after Indianisation.
Call was called on to draw up plans post haste for a rampart protecting the northern and western reaches of what is today George Town and even a bit of its south, from the west wall to the Fort.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/mp/2003/02/19/stories/2003021900210300.htm   (1162 words)

  
 Devi : Love God Shiva
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www.goddess.ws /articles/devi?love-god-shiva   (1668 words)

  
 » Blog Archive » HISTORY OF THE GOETHALS’ MEMORIAL SCHOOL: BEGINNINGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Woodroffe’s proposal and the first meeting was called of all the priests in Calcutta and all the principal Catholic laymen.
It was agreed that the nature of the memorial should depend on the amount of money collected; but first of all a marble tablet was to be erected in the Cathedral in Moorghihatta with a record of the life and works of the good Archbishop Goethals.
Mount Carmel Novitiate stands on the ground she occupied for her own dwelling.
www.goethalsmemorialschool.com /?p=29   (2536 words)

  
 Blue Ridge - Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Photo exhibits illustrate the rise of many of the small communities that were established by pioneer families and in which many of their descendants still live.
Exhibited on an upper floor are numerous Victorian era artifacts from the Woodroffe family, founders of the granite quarry.
The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History is located in a restored mercantile store in the heart of downtown Mount Airy.
www.blueridgeheritage.com /MusicoftheMountains/Attractions/MountAiryMuseumofRegionalHistory.html   (319 words)

  
 nt.citysearch.com.au > Visitor Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Mount Sonder in the West McDonell Ranges is about a 90-minute drive west of Alice Springs in Central Australia.
As Mount Sonder looms in the background along the Namatjiri Highway, its size (1380 metres) is impressive and one can understand its significance as an icon of the West MacDonnell Ranges.
April to October are the best months of the year to climb Mount Sonder due to extreme temperatures in summer.
nt.citysearch.com.au /profile?id=80010080   (364 words)

  
 Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
Their bare rock surfaces rise to numerous peaks exceeding 3,500 feet (1,100 m), including Mount Woodroffe (4,708 feet [1,435 m]), the...
It rises near Gunung (mount) Kaba (6,355 ft [1,937 m]) in the Pegunungan (mountains) Barisan and flows...
mechanical musical instrument that is sounded when tuned metal prongs, or teeth, mounted in a line on a flat comb are made to vibrate by contact with a revolving cylinder or disk that is driven by a clockwork mechanism.
www.britannica.com.au /britannica_browse/m/m105.html   (1521 words)

  
 History of the Woodroffe Data
T[1] Thomas Woodroffe of Rempstone was buried on 22nd.
Woodrove or Woodroffe of Woolley, near Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Woodroffes of Woolley or to the descendants of the Wood-reeves
www.roffesoft.co.uk /woodroffes/history.htm   (2552 words)

  
 T595net - Message Board - Model Range Forums - Sports Range - Valentine One Radar Detector.
I mount the detector to the plate with part of a thick o-ring I cut and pull through two appropriately (the width of the detector) spaced holes and put a knot on each end to get the right tension when I slide the detector under the o ring on the plate.
It would be in a similar, slightly lower position than mounting it on the brake fluid reservoir but on the left side of course.
Yep, the guy had his helmet there with the light mounted in it and he had some front fairings that had his mounting kits on them.
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 South Australia
At the Northern Territory border rise the Musgrave Ranges, highest point of which is Mount Woodroffe (4,721 feet; 1,439 meters), and in the east the rugged Flinders Range dominates the surrounding lowlands.
The northern half of the state is arid to semiarid, with 5 to 10 inches (125-250 mm) of rain a year, but the southern half, semiarid in the north, changes to humid in the southeast, where the average annual rainfall is over 50 inches (1,300 mm) at Mount Gambier, a city at the southeastern tip.
The 1991 population of the state's largest urban centers, all of which are located on the southern coast, were: Adelaide, 960,300; Whyalla, 25,740; Mount Gambier, 21,156; Port Augusta, 14,966; and Port Pirie, 14,398.
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 Atlas of South Australia | Landforms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Mount Gambier is about 4800 years old and all the volcanic features in the area are less than 10,000 years old.
Around Mount Painter, 'all slopes' topography is developed on the older granitic rocks.
The Adelaide Plains consist of alluvium derived from the Mount Lofty Ranges, with alluvial fans of late Pleistocene age fronting the uplands.
www.atlas.sa.gov.au /go/resources/atlas-of-south-australia-1986/environment-resources/landforms   (2564 words)

  
 NATURE. The Vanishing Lions. The Laikipia Predator Project | PBS
It sits along the equator in central Kenya, in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Kenya.
Laikipia's vast grasslands, riverbanks, and watering holes attract a rich array of wildlife, including some of Kenya's largest numbers of rhinos, elephants, leopards, and buffalo.
One of its main goals is to help local farmers protect their livestock from lions so they don't have to kill them.
www.pbs.org /search/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/vanishinglions/laikipia.html   (585 words)

  
 Regional Council of Goyder - George W Goyder
The Regional Council of Goyder was named in honour of George Woodroffe Goyder, whose famous (or infamous to so many early settlers in the area) "Goyder's Line" traverses the former District Council areas that now make up the single regional council.
George W Goyder (1826-1898), was born in Liverpool and migrated to Australia at the age of 22 in 1848.
Goyder's Line provides a very accurate guide to the separation point between lands suitable for all sorts of agriculture on a long-term sustainable basis and lands suitable only for grazing.
www.goyder.sa.gov.au /site/page.cfm?u=107   (430 words)

  
 User:Hagnat/Sandbox - The Urban Dead Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The second one shows Ngitaka, the Guardian Spirit of Mount Woodroffe.
Please, vote one for the Mount logo, and two for the Guardian Spirit logo.
Woodroffe is the name of a mountain in Australia but a piece of wood makes better sense.
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 SA
Natural vegetation is scant in the north and west and consists mainly of saltbush, scrub grasses, small acacias and some eucalyptus.
Mount Woodroffe is the state's highest peak (1440m), and is situated in the Musgrave Ranges on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia's north-west.
The Mount Lofty ranges extend north from Kangaroo Island (the small island off Gulf St Vincent) and pass east of Adelaide, and their continuation, the Flinders Ranges, stretch north from the head of Spencer Gulf.
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 Polly Model Engineering: Stationary Engine Kits - Anthony Mount Models
Woodroffe and Co’s “Verto” engine was built at the Albion works, Rugeley, Staffordshire in the 1880s and 90s.
It came in three forms, as an engine on its own (below), as engine and boiler mounted on a fixed base, which also doubled as a water tank, and as an engine and boiler mounted on a traveling base (right).
The model is also available in the same three forms.
www.pollymodelengineering.co.uk /sections/stationary-engines/anthony-mount-models/woodroffes-Verto-Engine.asp   (309 words)

  
 Paterson
Nov 20: Joseph Woodroff soldier 26th Regt Capt. Horne's Co. and Jean Paterson in this parish.
It is not known if this was the proclamation date or the actual wedding date itself.
Daughter, Joan Woodroffe, married William Paton on 4/11/1831.
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 County Obituaries: Q-Z | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Survivors include her daughter, Delphia Mullins; son, John Rose; sisters, Connie Claye and Agnes Tatum; brothers, Mark Allen Jr., Clifford Allen and John Allen Sr.; and four grandchildren.
John M. "Woody" Woodroffe, 75, of Lakeside died Sunday.
He was born in Philadelphia and was a masonry contractor.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040401/news_1m1obitqz1.html   (537 words)

  
 George W. Goyder
George Woodroffe Goyder was born in London on 24 June 1826.
This was followed by Goyder's Lagoon on the Birdsville Track, Goyder Railway Station, Mount Woodroffe, the highest mountain in South Australia, Wheal Goyder, a copper mine near Wallaroo where W.S. Whitington was secretary.
George Woodroffe Goyder has been one of South Australia's foremost civil servants.
www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /goyder.htm   (1546 words)

  
 Atlas of South Australia | Outback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In the centre of the region, low hills and gently sloping plains extend from the Flinders Ranges to the deeply weathered Musgrave Ranges in the far north-west.
Here is the highest point in the State - Mount Woodroffe, at 1435 metres.
Bordering the Ranges are a number of extensive salt lakes which seldom hold water and normally appear as depressions with a clay or salt encrusted surface.
www.atlas.sa.gov.au /index.cfm?objectId=2FDE8D44-1034-5339-F27E66266E179E8A   (805 words)

  
 South Australia Police Historical Society
This, with his subsequent experience was to make him in his time, the most knowledgeable and informed SAPOL member on this subject.
This was followed by a relatively short time at Mount Gambier.
A significant physical feature in Bruce’s “parish” was Mount Woodroffe, the highest mountain in the state.
www.sapolicehistory.org /may03.html   (3486 words)

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