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Murchison River (Western Australia)

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The Murchison River is the second longest river in Western Australia. [1]

50 relations: Albany Advertiser, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Banana, Belele Station, Bilyuin Pool, Carnarvon, Western Australia, Cue, Western Australia, Cyclone Emma (2006), Ernest Augustus Lee Steere, Estuary, Ferry, Fossil, Geology, George Grey, Impey River, Indian Ocean, Kalbarri National Park, Kalbarri, Western Australia, Meekatharra, Western Australia, Mid West (Western Australia), Moorarie Station, Murchison River Gorge, North West Coastal Highway, Ordovician, Panulirus cygnus, Pastoral farming, Peak Hill, Western Australia, Pencell Pool, River delta, Robinson Ranges, Roderick Murchison, Sandstone, Western Australia, Scotland, Sediment, Sequence (geology), Shoal, South Australian Register, The Courier-Mail, The Inquirer & Commercial News, The Sunday Times (Western Australia), The West Australian, Tide, Tumblagooda Sandstone, Turbidity, Western Australia, Western Mail (Western Australia), Wooleen Station, Yalgar River, Yilgarn Craton, Z Bend.

Albany Advertiser

The Albany Advertiser, also published as the Australian Advertiser and the Albany Advertiser and Plantagenet and Denmark Post, is a biweekly English language newspaper published for Albany and the Great Southern region in Western Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Banana

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.

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Belele Station

Belele Station is a pastoral lease in Western Australia that operates as a cattle station and as a sheep station for the production of wool.

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Bilyuin Pool

Bilyuin Pool is a permanent pool located about 90 kilometres north of Meekatharra in central Western Australia, and the far upper reaches of the Murchison River.

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Carnarvon, Western Australia

Carnarvon is a coastal town situated approximately north of Perth, Western Australia.

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Cue, Western Australia

Cue is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia, located 620 km north-east of Perth.

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Cyclone Emma (2006)

Tropical Cyclone Emma was a weak but unusually large tropical cyclone that affected a substantial portion of Western Australia during the 2005–06 Australian region cyclone season.

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Ernest Augustus Lee Steere

Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere (19 March 186622 December 1957) was a prominent Australian businessman and pastoralist.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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George Grey

Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony (South Africa), the 11th Premier of New Zealand and a writer.

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Impey River

The Impey River is a river in the Mid West of Western Australia which rises south of Mount Murchison and flows east-north-east until it merges with the Murchison River of which it is a tributary.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Kalbarri National Park

Kalbarri National Park is located north of Perth, in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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Kalbarri, Western Australia

Kalbarri is a coastal town in the Mid West region located 592 km north of Perth, Western Australia.

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Meekatharra, Western Australia

Meekatharra is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia.

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Mid West (Western Australia)

The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Moorarie Station

Moorarie Station is a pastoral lease currently operating as a sheep station in the Murchison district of Western Australia's Mid West region.

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Murchison River Gorge

Murchison River Gorge is a riverine gorge in Mid West Western Australia.

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North West Coastal Highway

North West Coastal Highway is a generally north-south Western Australian highway which links the coastal city of Geraldton with the town of Port Hedland.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Panulirus cygnus

Panulirus cygnus is a species of spiny lobster (family Palinuridae), found off the west coast of Australia.

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Pastoral farming

Pastoral farming (also known in some regions as ranching, livestock farming or grazing) is a form of agriculture aimed at producing livestock, rather than growing crops.

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Peak Hill, Western Australia

Peak Hill is the name of a goldfield, locality and the site of a gold mining ghost town in the Murchison Region of Western Australia.

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Pencell Pool

Pencell Pool is a natural pool on the Murchison River in Mid West Western Australia.

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River delta

A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.

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Robinson Ranges

The Robinson Ranges are a range of hills approximately north of Meekatharra in central Western Australia.

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Roderick Murchison

Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA (22 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.

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Sandstone, Western Australia

Sandstone is a small town in the Mid West region of Western Australia 157 kilometres east of Mount Magnet and 661 kilometres north of the state capital, Perth.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Sequence (geology)

In geology, a sequence is a stratigraphic unit which is bounded by an unconformity at the top and at the bottom.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.

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South Australian Register

The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, and later South Australian Register, was South Australia's first newspaper.

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The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.

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The Inquirer & Commercial News

The Inquirer & Commercial News was a newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia from 1855 to 1901.

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The Sunday Times (Western Australia)

The Sunday Times, owned by Seven West Media, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Tumblagooda Sandstone

The Tumblagooda Sandstone is a geological formation deposited during the Silurian or Ordovician periods, between four and five hundred million years ago, and is now exposed on the west coast of Australia in river and coastal gorges near the tourist town of Kalbarri, straddling the boundary of the Carnarvon and Perth basins.

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western Mail (Western Australia)

The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.

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Wooleen Station

Wooleen Station is a pastoral lease that was previously operated as a sheep station and currently runs cattle.

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Yalgar River

The Yalgar River is a 185-kilometre-long tributary of the Murchison River, located in the Shire of Meekatharra in central Western Australia.

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Yilgarn Craton

The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes the bulk of the Western Australian land mass.

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Z Bend

The Z Bend is a popular tourist lookout on the Murchison River Gorge in Western Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_River_(Western_Australia)

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