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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Andrew Brown: Why Tooting is on another planet
Large craters are named after distinguished scientists or writers.
There are craters named after places all over the world - Slovenia, New Guinea, Upper Volta and Wales have all lent their names to Mars, but the treasure trove of weirdness is the great plains of North America.
Her husband also has a crater too, on Mars, and their daughter has one on Venus, where all the features are named after women or female deities.
www.guardian.co.uk /space/article/0,,1606597,00.html   (568 words)

  
 Just Cruisin 4WD Tours - South Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
From Quorn we travel through the Southern Flinders Ranges to Wilmington and continuing on to Adelaide via the Germein Gorge.
See the Blue Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano, enjoy a scenic train trip on the Limestone Coast Railway and a cruise of the Glenelg River.
See the Blue Lake in a crater of an extinct volcano, the Naracoorte and Engelbrecht Caves and enjoy a scenic train trip on the Limestone Coast Railway.
www.wikiaustralia.com /tour/9002653   (14523 words)

  
 BootsnAll.com - The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced - Cape Otway from The Grampians
Millions of years later the result was a crater filled with fertile land.
The sheep are gone, koalas have been reintroduced from New South Wales and from a painting, more than 250,000 trees and plants have been planted to attempt to restore the crater to its former glory.
From the Crater we reached the south coast of Australia and Logan's Bay, a great spot for lunch.
www.bootsnall.com /travelogues/sav/20otway.shtml   (664 words)

  
 Flinders Ranges, SA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
We got back to Quorn and I decided to stop over for a while, and i booked a two-day 4wd trip into the Flinders Ranges.
Quorn is a quiet country town in the Flinders Ranges.
There is an atmosphere of quiet retirement from the town's heady heyday as a major service town for the Ghan railway, which passed through Quorn until the line closed in 1980.
www.southernsky.fsnet.co.uk /jpegs/sa/parachilna.htm   (489 words)

  
 australia. Off the Beaten Track
Winter is probably the most pleasant time to visit, but the ranges are greenest and carpeted in wildflowers in spring.
On Tasmania's beautiful east coast, the peninsula is part of the Freycinet National Park and features secluded beaches and coves, rare plant, bird and animal life and excellent bushwalks.
Attractions include the spectacular gorges on the Fitzroy River, Wolfe Creek meteorite crater, the Gibb River Road and Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) National Park.
interactive.colum.edu /students/andeti/Refresh/traveler/AUoffthetrack.html   (1118 words)

  
 List of craters on Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are hundreds of thousands of craters on Mars, but only some of them have names.
Here is a list of named Martian craters.
Martian craters are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors, or after towns (with a population of less than 100,000) on Earth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_craters_on_Mars   (87 words)

  
 Agentsmith ::
Along the way we passed Gosse Bluff, what looks like a fairly typical row of mountains was actually formed in an instant when a comet smashed into the ground about 140 million years ago.
This astrobleme is the world's largest visible impact crater, and is too big to appreciate up close, only when standing on a faraway hillside can you grasp the scale of it.
Once 2km deep and 20km wide, the scar is being slowly erased by much subtler forces of nature, the wind and the rain.
www.agentsmith.com /introguide.php?page=12   (3729 words)

  
 New Page 3
This is neither a hill, nor is it particularly high: it is an almost perfectly round crater that violently exploded into existence about 30,000 years ago when basaltic magma welled up hitting the subterranean water table.
The crater then filled with water that still gathers and vanishes depending on the amount of rainfall.
It was painted in 1855 by Austrian-born Eugene von Guerard who still saw the crater in its original beauty with trees like manna gum, flwood, fl wattle, swamp gum and drooping sheoak.
www.joepaul.net /southern_australia.htm   (9896 words)

  
 Brown, Mount - Bryan Creek
The crater on the south-east side of the Mount is the only one dry and is known as the Devil's Punchbowl.
Separated from it by a saddle is a second crater in whose bosom - or rather I should say bottom - the Valley Lake smiles upon you from a depth of two or three hundred feet.
Properly speaking there are two lakes in this crater, a narrow strip of land dividing from the main lake a sheet of water about half a mile in circumference, now known as Mrs McDonald's Lake, from the circumstance of a lady of that name having committed the 'happy dispatch' therein.
www.slsa.sa.gov.au /manning/pn/b/b28.htm   (1962 words)

  
 Flinders Ranges (Wilpena Pound) Trip - September 2003
This is a tourist railway with steam engines which was a recent victim of the massive liability insurance problems which have hit Australia in the last year.
North of Quorn, we realized we were in the country when we met a large flock of sheep coming down the "main" road.
The shepherd (and his three sheep dogs!) were all comfortably sitting in their truck, slowly accompanying the sheep.
www.uisgebeatha.org /flinders_sep2003.html   (3931 words)

  
 veggie options: VEGAN/other veggies/experts?
Quorn FYI isn't vegan as it contains eggs, I don't think its better than meat as its a fungus grown in vats that's heavily processed, however it depends on the meat, I'd take quorn over factory farmed meat.
If I had the option, I'd rear all my own animals, so I could ensure they are treated well during their life (especially fed well..), then I could have the meat as fresh as we were supposed to.
Quorn is very good (if not a little overprocessed), grains like quinoa, as above beans usually have good protein levels too.
www.muscletalk.co.uk /m_772234/printable.htm   (2404 words)

  
 An Auzzie Outback Eclipse 4 Dec 2002
Resembling a meteor crater the Pound is in fact a natural syncline formed from hard Rawnsley Quartzite.
Quorn and the wineries of the Clare Valley and back to civilisation in
Here we were dropped off at our various places to stay, but nearly all of us met up for a meal in the evening.
www.racingshadow.com /SEclipse/2002Dec4/2002Report.html   (3470 words)

  
 Science & Technology Archives at Future Brief
An Austrian astrochemist Christian Koeberl had established that the glass had been formed at a temperature so hot that there could be only one known cause: a meteorite impacting with Earth.
And yet there were no signs of an impact crater, even in satellite images." Learn more at the BBC.com.
And if there is frozen water in some of the Moon's craters, that could be split into hydrogen and oxygen.
www.futurebrief.com /science.asp   (17485 words)

  
 Nature's canvas - South Australia - www.smh.com.au/travel/
It looks like a giant volcano or a meteor crater, but it's neither.
There are two explanations for how it came into being, and both are equally awesome, though I prefer the serpent story.
Motel accommodation at Hawker and Quorn, south-west of the central ranges.
www.smh.com.au /news/South-Australia/Natures-canvas/2005/02/09/1107890264117.html   (1556 words)

  
 projectspringfield
The idea is basically that the Springfield Basin represents a sediment-filled volcanic crater or subsidence depression that was formed by the initial phase of a kimberlitic volcanic eruption.
In this hypothesis, kimberlite volcanic ash is thrown out around the vent and is later incorporated into Permian glacial sediments to explain the diamonds and indicators in basal Springfield Basin conglomerates.
It is thought most likely that any volcanic eruption creating a crater would be focused on the deepest part of the crater.
www.flindersdiamonds.com /pspringfield.htm   (2889 words)

  
 July 2006 Major News about Minor Objects
Uzbek crater candidate (11 July) UzReport.com news item: "The meteorite crater is located in an unpopulated deserted plateau Ust-Yurt, located in the north-western part of [Uzbekistan]...
Saskatchewan crater candidate -- Thunder Sword Resources, Inc. news release: Geophysical surveying of Kercher Lake finds "a very circular crater-like structure" described as being 190 km.
Possible impact crater -- Wichita, Kansas Eagle article: "Don Stimpson thinks he has found a new meteorite crater in a Kiowa County field [and possibly] the largest pallasite ever found [found with landowner Paul Ross]...
www.hohmanntransfer.com /news/0607.htm   (3032 words)

  
 Costa Rica: Entry 1
From San José we went on a day trip by bus to Volcán Poás, a gently-steaming volcano with a lake in its crater.
It's a short walk from the car park up to the edge of the crater, and when we arrived there was no view at all.
The lake in the bottom has changed size depending on the heat coming from the magma, and boiled away to next-to-nothing (only boiling pools of sulphur) a few years ago.
chezphil.org /rtw/e55.html   (1706 words)

  
 Three Years on the Road
I wanted to push on to Quorn for a big day of one hundred and twenty five kilometres, but Karen vetoed that suggestion.
While in Clare, Karen had rung the Quorn caravan park and arranged to leave our bikes there while we caught a bus to Wilpena Pound.
While I lay in the tent, unsleeping, listening to that rooster crow, I wondered whether my previous consumption of his relatives had angered the chicken gods, for they certainly brought down their wrath upon me that night.
www.brettdavis.com.au /book/wilpena.html   (3997 words)

  
 Pleasant Morning Buzz -- Science
And yet there were no signs of a suitable impact crater, even in satellite images.
But instead of a mysterious island, scientists have found a bubbling submarine volcano whose weird features include a swirling vortex, a host of strange animals, and a fearsome zone of toxic waters dubbed the Moat of Death.
The moat lies between Vailulu'u's encircling crater and the rim of the cone inside it.
www.pleasantmorningbuzz.com /science   (11608 words)

  
 Travelogue Entries
Across the crater, you felt like you were walking on the moon.
You could smell the sulphur in the air so there were hot thermal areas around this crater.
It was time to move on to the spooky hospital hostel in Quorn and then on to Coober Pedy.
www.travelpod.com /cgi-bin/view_printer.pl?tweb_UID=jrcooke7&tweb_tripID=down_under_2005&tweb_guest_password=   (21027 words)

  
 over the ranges South Australia - Travel - MyNRMA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The restaurant is most well-known for its feral food — camel, kangaroo, emu, bush herbs and native spices — keep an eye out for the distinctive road signs advertising the menu on the way into the town.
From Parachilna head back down the highway to Hawker, the purple walls of the Flinders a constant companion to the left, before finally finishing the loop at Quorn, home to the Pichi Richi Railway, one of Australia’s best-known steam train journeys.
It closed 77 years later in 1956 until it was restored in 1974 by the Pichi Richi Preservation Society, which now runs original steam stock on the narrow-gauge line through deep rock cuttings, along stone wall embankments and spectacular iron bridges.
www.mynrma.com.au /sa_flinders_ranges.asp   (1064 words)

  
 Scrapbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The ferns meandered over hillocks, edged their way around numerous pools of milky water, and stopped only at the base of tall cliffs that jutted from the ground and grew up into the face of a monstrous volcano.
High up above the clouds the crater of the volcano issued a rumble of flatulence and pushed out thick red lava that rolled and steamed lazily down the side of the mountain.
In the distance other volcanoes that refused to be left out of the argument returned the hail with percolations of their own.
www.atreusonline2.com /scrapbook.php   (8046 words)

  
 Kimberley Kampers.Treks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Flinders encompasses both the southern areas around Quorn, Cradock and Hawker, the Flinders Ranges National Park, areas further north up to and including the Gammon Ranges National Park (called the Northern Flinders), Arkaroola and beyond to finally meet up with the Strzelecki Track.
The major areas of interest are Wilpena Pound, Bunyeroo Gorge, the Heysen Trail, Blinman historic town, Chambers Gorge, and Arkaroola but there is lots more to explore if you have the time.
Often mistaken for a volcanic crater it is in fact a natural amphitheatre 11km long and 5km wide.
www.kimberleykampers.com /getContent.asp?Page=/Regions/Flinders.asp   (909 words)

  
 Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island - Outback Spirit Tours
Situated on the slopes of an extinct volcano, Mt Gambier is in the centre of the largest pine plantation in the country and has a fascinating array of beautiful old buildings constructed from the white volcanic stone for which the area is famous.
We will stop to explore the gorgeous Blue Lake, a crater lake nearly 200m deep which changes colour from dull-grey to brilliant blue each November.
We depart Mt. Gambier mid afternoon en-route to the Chardonnay Lodge nes-tled in the heart of the famous Coonawarra Wine region of South Australia.
www.outbackspirit.net.au /flindersranges.shtml   (2131 words)

  
 BUG - Backpackers Guide to Mt Gambier, Naracoorte and the Limestone Coast, South Australia
If you're driving along the coastal route between Adelaide and the South Australia/Victoria border you'll pass by the Coorong National Park that is noted for its bird life, particularly pelicans.
This large national park on the coast around mid-way between Adelaide and the Victorian border is known for its lagoons, sand dunes and bird life.
The main attractions are the two crater lakes, Blue Lake and Valley Lake, which are both located on an extinct volcano overlooking the city.
www.bugaustralia.com /destinations/au-sase.html   (676 words)

  
 Mars Atlas alphabetic index: Q   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Look for it (138 pixels big) in the western part of area east of Quenisset crater
Only 9 pixels big in the northeastern part of area southwest of Santa Fe crater
Only 6 pixels big in the northeastern part of area southeast of Tuskegee crater
www.roving-mouse.com /planetary/Mars/Atlas/features/alphabetic/q.html   (56 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - A View from the Back: The Recollections of a Fleet Air Arm Observer 1941-1946 by Tony Inman ...
We did several of these things for this flotilla which was Hunt class by the look of it - I have Quorn, South Down, Egglington down here, which sounds like Hunt class destroyers, the little ones.
One day we were woken by the news that it was D Day and the invasion had started and about this time there was a rather loud explosion in the night and when we flew the next day they said some bomb or something had been dropped in a field nearby.
We flew over and looked at this bomb crater and it transpired that it wasn't really a bomb crater - it was a flying bomb - and then the doodlebugs had started and we saw quite a lot of them going across the sky at night.
www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/30/a8108930.shtml   (3076 words)

  
 [ world of nathaniel ] - Funny emails I have recieved
Point out that since you'd no doubt be made aware of their special dietary requirements, tell them about yours, and ask for a nice steak.
The driver, and soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, causing him to become insignificant for the remainder of the event.
Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and hair were extracted from the crater and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.
world-of-nathaniel.tripod.com /funny/email.html   (5028 words)

  
 City Link Safari
Shifting into 4WD we cross the giant white sand dunes to join the ocean beach road down the coast to Kingston, Robe and Beachport and the beautiful Lake George for our overnight stop.
Day 2 – Leaving the coast we travel inland through dense pine forests and farmlands to Mt Gambier with it’s beautiful crater lakes, the most unusual Blue Lake changes colour twice a year.
Touring onwards to Buckaringa and Warren Gorges to Quorn then through the beautiful Clare and Barossa Valley wine growing areas to Adelaide.
properties.worldtourism.com.au /CityLinkSafaris   (573 words)

  
 Thorley Memories of the Stort
Grenville Bird recalls that the timber was heading for Hughes timber yards in Bishop's Stortford and that barges had names beginning with Q - (Queen, Quest, Quorn etc).
Pamela Finch remembers some of the barge men being Russians who came with their loads of timber from the Baltic region.
A stick of bombs fell across the towpath during the war and the path had to be diverted around a crater.
www.btinternet.com /~friends.stjames/Childhood_Memories.htm   (609 words)

  
 Barrow Voice Summer 2005 - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This is a story which we are keeping an eye on and shall report on any developments in the next issue.
When the Quorn Hunt moved to their new home at Quorn Park on Paudy Lane (between Barrow upon Soar and Seagrave) in 1905, the total cost of the site was £11,000 and it provided accommodation for 35 horses, 200 hounds and 20 men.
The distinctive clock tower looks a little sorry for itself at the moment and the management committee at Quorn Park are currently looking at ways to raise funds to replace the clock workings that mysteriously disappeared and to fund a replacement weather vane.
www.barrowvoice.co.uk /summer_2005/news.html   (1286 words)

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