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Allan Cunningham (botanist)
Allan Cunningham (13 July 1791 – 27 June 1839) was an English botanist and explorer, primarily known for his travels in Australia to collect plants.
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Allora, Queensland
Allora is a town and locality in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, on the Darling Downs south-west of the state capital, Brisbane.
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Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Amiens railway line
The Amiens railway line was a branch railway in the Granite Belt region of Queensland, Australia, branching from the Southern Line at Cottonvale between Warwick and Stanthorpe.
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Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Available water capacity
Available water capacity or available water content (AWC) is the range of available water that can be stored in soil and be available for growing crops.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Beef cattle
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production).
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Bell Branch railway line
The Bell Branch Railway was a railway line from Dalby, on the Western line, to Bell in Queensland, Australia.
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Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.
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Bunya Mountains
The Bunya Mountains are a distinctive set of peaks forming an isolated section of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland.
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Bunya Mountains National Park
Bunya Mountains is a national park in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Bushfires in Australia
Bushfires are frequent events during the warmer months of the year, due to Australia's mostly hot, dry climate.
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Bushland
Bushland is a blanket term for land which supports remnant vegetation or land which is disturbed but still retains a predominance of the original floristics and structure.
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Cameby Downs coal mine
The Cameby Downs Coal Mine is a coal mine located 16 km north-east of Miles on the Darling Downs in Queensland.
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Canning Downs
Canning Downs was the first residential establishment built by a white person on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia.
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Cecil Plains railway line
The Cecil Plains Branch was a 63 km railway line on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia.
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Cecil Plains, Queensland
Cecil Plains is a town and locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Central Queensland
Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland (a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Charles Douglas Eastaughffe
Charles Douglas Eastaughffe was an early Australian settler, later becoming a police trooper and Chief Constable of Dalby, Queensland.
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Charles Fraser (botanist)
Charles Fraser or Frazer or Frazier (born 1788 and died 22 December 1831) was Colonial Botanist of New South Wales from 1821 to 1831.
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Chinchilla, Queensland
Chinchilla is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Clifton, Queensland
Clifton is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Cobb & Co
Cobb & Co was the name used by many successful sometimes quite independent Australian coaching businesses.
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Cobb & Co Museum
The Cobb and Co Museum is located in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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Condamine River
The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia.
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Condamine, Queensland
Condamine is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Cooby Dam
The Cooby Dam is a rockendashfill embankment dam with an unendashgated spillway across the Cooby Creek, a tributary of Condamine River, at Groomsville in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Coolmunda Dam
The Coolmunda Dam is an earthendashfill embankment dam with a gated spillway across the Macintrye Brook, a tributary of the Dumaresq River, that is located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Cooyar railway line
The Cooyar railway line was a branch line in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Cressbrook Dam
Cressbrook Dam is one of the three water storages used to supply Toowoomba and the surrounding region.
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Crop
A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence.
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Crows Nest railway line
Crows Nest Branch Railway was originally surveyed as a direct line from Toowoomba north to Crows Nest in Queensland, Australia.
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Cunninghams Gap
Cunninghams Gap is a pass over the Great Dividing Range between the Darling Downs and the Fassifern Valley in Queensland, Australia.
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Dairy cattle
Dairy cattle (also called dairy cows) are cattle cows bred for the ability to produce large quantities of milk, from which dairy products are made.
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Dalby, Queensland
Dalby is a town and locality in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Darling Downs
The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia.
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Darling Downs Correctional Centre
Darling Downs Correctional Centre was an Australian prison facility in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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Darling Downs Golf Association
The Darling Downs Golf Association consists of 21 affiliated Golf Clubs on Queensland's (Australia) Darling Downs.
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Darling Downs hopping mouse
The Darling Downs hopping mouse (Notomys mordax) is an extinct species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Darling Downs Power Station
Darling Downs Power Station is located west of Dalby in Queensland and owned by Origin Energy.
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Dingo Fence
The Dingo Fence or Dog Fence is a pest-exclusion fence that was built in Australia during the 1880s and finished in 1885, to keep dingoes out of the relatively fertile south-east part of the continent (where they had largely been exterminated) and protect the sheep flocks of southern Queensland.
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Diprotodon
Diprotodon, meaning "two forward teeth", is the largest known marsupial to have ever lived.
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Division of Groom
The Division of Groom is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
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Division of Maranoa
The Division of Maranoa is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
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Drayton, Queensland
Drayton is an outer southwestern suburb of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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Dumaresq River
The Dumaresq River; (Indigenous Bigambul: Karaula) a perennial stream of the Macintyre catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales and the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Electoral district of Condamine
Condamine is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Electoral district of Nanango
Nanango is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Electoral district of Southern Downs
Southern Downs is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Electoral district of Toowoomba North
Toowoomba North is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Electoral district of Toowoomba South
Toowoomba South is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Electoral district of Warrego
Warrego is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Farm
A farm is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production.
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.
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Frost
Frost is the coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight.
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Glenlyon Dam
Glenlyon Dam, also known as Pike Creek Reservoir, is in Queensland near the border with New South Wales, roughly between Stanthorpe and Texas to the west.
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Glenmorgan railway line
The Glenmorgan Branch is a railway line in south west Queensland, Australia.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Goomburra railway line
The Goomburra railway line was a branch railway in the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Goondiwindi
Goondiwindi is a town and a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.. At the, the town had an urban population of approximately 5,500. The name Goondiwindi derives from an Aboriginal word with goondi indicating droppings or dung and windi indicating duck, probably connected with the roosting place on a large rock in the Macintyre River. The name was believed to be first used for a pastoral run in the area.
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Goondiwindi Region
The Goondiwindi Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia along the state's border with New South Wales.
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Gore Highway
The Gore Highway is a highway running between Toowoomba and Goondiwindi in Queensland, Australia.
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Government of Queensland
The Government of Queensland, also referred to as the Queensland Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Queensland.
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Governor of New South Wales
The Governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in the state of New South Wales.
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Granite Belt
The Granite Belt is an area of the Great Dividing Range in the Darling Downs region of Queensland and the New England region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin (GAB), located in Australia, is the largest and deepest artesian basin in the world, stretching over, with measured temperatures ranging from.
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Great Australian Bight
The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.
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Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Haden railway line
Haden Branch Railway.
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Humid subtropical climate
A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.
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Hunter Region
The Hunter Region, also commonly known as the Hunter Valley, is a region of New South Wales, Australia, extending from approximately to north of Sydney.
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Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian Government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
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Irrigation
Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.
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Jandowae
Jandowae is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Jandowae railway line
The Jandowae Branch Railway was a railway line from Dalby to Jandowae in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Jimbour, Queensland
Jimbour is a town in the locality of Jimbour East, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Jondaryan Woolshed
Jondaryan Woolshed is a heritage-listed shearing shed at Evanslea Road, Jondaryan, Queensland, Australia.
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Jondaryan, Queensland
Jondaryan is a rural town in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Killarney railway line
The Killarney railway line was a branch railway in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Killarney, Queensland
Killarney is a small town located south-east of Warwick, on the Condamine River in Queensland, Australia.
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Kogan Creek Power Station
The Kogan Creek Power Station is a 750 megawatt coal fired power station owned by CS Energy on the Darling Downs in Queensland.
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Landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.
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Legume
A legume is a plant or its fruit or seed in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae).
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Leslie Dam
Leslie Dam is located ten kilometres from Warwick Central Business District in Queensland, Australia.
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List of Queensland's Q150 Icons
Queensland's Q150 Icons is an official list of cultural icons compiled as part of Q150 (the 150th birthday of Queensland) in 2009 by the Government of Queensland, Australia, that represent the people, places and events that are significant to Queensland.
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Ludwig Leichhardt
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt, known as Ludwig Leichhardt, (23 October 1813 – c. 1848) was a German explorer and naturalist, most famous for his exploration of northern and central Australia.
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Macintyre River
The Macintyre River, a perennial river that forms part of the Border Rivers group, is part of the Barwon catchment of the Murray-Darling basin, located in the Northern Tablelands and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales, and the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Main Range National Park
The Main Range is a mountain range and a national park in Queensland, Australia, located predominantly in Tregony, Southern Downs Region southwest of Brisbane.
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Maranoa River
The Maranoa River, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is a river situated in South West Queensland, Australia.
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Maranoa, Queensland
The Maranoa is the name given to an area of southern Queensland.
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Marsupial
Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.
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Maryvale railway line
The Maryvale railway line was a branch railway in the Southern Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Maryvale, Queensland (Southern Downs Region)
Maryvale is a town and a locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Megafauna
In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and New Latin fauna "animal life") are large or giant animals.
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Miles, Queensland
Miles is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Millmerran Power Station
The Millmerran Power Station is a coal-fired power station south of Millmerran in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Millmerran railway line
The Millmerran railway line is a 71 kilometre long branch railway in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Millmerran, Queensland
Millmerran is a town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Moreton Bay
The Moreton Bay is a bay located on the eastern coast of Australia from central Brisbane, Queensland.
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Murri people
The Murri are the Indigenous Australians of modern-day Queensland and north-west New South Wales.
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New Acland Mine
The New Acland Mine is located adjacent to Acland township, about 10 km north of Oakey on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia.
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New England Highway
The New England Highway is an long highway in Australia running from Hexham at Newcastle, New South Wales at its southern end to Yarraman near Toowoomba, Queensland at its northern end.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nobby, Queensland
Nobby is a small town and locality on the Darling Downs in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Oakey Power Station
The Oakey Power Station is a 332 MW power station located at Oakey on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland, adjacent to the Roma-to-Brisbane gas pipeline.
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Oakey, Queensland
Oakey is a rural town in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Off-stream reservoir
An off-stream reservoir is a reservoir that is not located on a streambed, and is supplied by a pipeline, aqueduct or an adjacent stream.
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On Our Selection
On Our Selection (1899) is a series of stories written by Australian author Steele Rudd, the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis, in the late 1890s, featuring the characters Dad and Dave Rudd.
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Panicum coloratum
Panicum coloratum is a species of grass known by the common names kleingrass, blue panicgrass Tropical Forages.
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Paradise parrot
The paradise parrot (Psephotellus pulcherrimus) was a colourful medium-sized parrot native to the grassy woodlands of the Queensland – New South Wales border area of eastern Australia.
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Patrick Leslie
Patrick Leslie (25 September 1815 – 12 August 1881) was a Scottish settler in Australia.
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Perseverance Dam
Perseverance Dam is the second largest, (in terms of storage capacity) and the second oldest dam of Toowoomba city's three water supply dams.
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Pig
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.
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Pittsworth, Queensland
Pittsworth is a town and locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Poaceae
Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.
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Q150
Q150 was the sesquicentenary (150th anniversary) of the Separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.
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Queen Mary Falls
The Queen Mary Falls is a plunge waterfall on the Spring Creek that is located in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.
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Ralph Darling
General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH (1772 – 2 April 1858) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831.
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Regions of Queensland
The Regions of Queensland refer to the geographic areas of the Australian state of Queensland.
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Scenic Rim
The Scenic Rim is a group of forested mountain ranges of the Great Dividing Range straddling the border between south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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Shearing shed
Shearing sheds (or wool sheds) are large sheds located on sheep stations to accommodate large scale sheep shearing activities.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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Snow
Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.
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Sorghum
Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae.
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South Burnett
The South Burnett is a peanut growing and wine-producing area on the Great Dividing Range, north of the Darling Downs, in Queensland.
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South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, political, and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains 3.5 million people out of the state's population of 4.8 million.
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South West Queensland
South West Queensland is a remote region in the Australian state of Queensland which covers.
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South Western railway line, Queensland
The South Western line is a railway line in the southern part of the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Southern Downs Region
The Southern Downs Region is a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia, along the state's boundary with New South Wales.
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Southern railway line
The Southern railway line serves the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia.
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Spicers Gap
Spicers Gap is a mountain pass that is located west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and was the original route over the Great Dividing Range in the area around Brisbane.
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Stagecoach
A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.
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Stanthorpe, Queensland
Stanthorpe is a town situated in south east Queensland, Australia.
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Steele Rudd
Steele Rudd was the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 – 11 October 1935) an Australian author, from Queensland best known for his novel On Our Selection.
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Storm King Dam
Storm King Dam is a lake created by the dam of the same name in Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Surat Basin
The Surat Basin is a geological basin in eastern Australia.
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Sustainable energy
Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects.
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Swamp
A swamp is a wetland that is forested.
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The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.
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The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association Limited Factory
The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association Limited Factory is a heritage-listed factory at 57 Brook Street, North Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm, lightning storm, or thundershower, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.
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Toowoomba
Toowoomba (nicknamed 'The Garden City') is a city in the Darling Downs region in the Australian state of Queensland.
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Toowoomba Region
The Toowoomba Region is a local government area located in the Darling Downs part of Queensland, Australia.
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Toowoomba Second Range Crossing
The Toowoomba Second Range Crossing (TSRC) is a highway construction project that will route heavy vehicle traffic around Toowoomba, Queensland.
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Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport
Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport is an airport in Wellcamp, west from the CBD of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.
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Vertisol
In both the FAO and USDA soil taxonomy, a vertisol (Vertosol in the Australian Soil Classification) is a soil in which there is a high content of expansive clay known as montmorillonite that forms deep cracks in drier seasons or years.
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Wallangarra, Queensland
Wallangarra is a town and locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Wandoan railway line
The Wandoan Branch is a 70 km railway line in the Darling Downs region Queensland, Australia.
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Warrego Highway
The Warrego Highway is located in southern Queensland, Australia.
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Warwick, Queensland
Warwick is a town and locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane.
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Wastewater
Wastewater (or waste water) is any water that has been affected by human use.
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Water scarcity
Water scarcity is the lack of fresh water resources to meet water demand.
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Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
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Western Downs Region
Western Downs Region is a local government area in Queensland, Australia.
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Western railway line, Queensland
The Western railway line is a narrow gauge (1.067 m or 3 ft 6 in) railway, connecting the south-east and south-west regions of Queensland, Australia.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.
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Wide Bay–Burnett
Wide Bay–Burnett is a region of the Australian state of Queensland, located between 170 and 400 kilometres (105 and 250 miles) north of the state capital, Brisbane.
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Wilderness
Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity.
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Yangan, Queensland
Yangan is a small rural town in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
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1891 Australian shearers' strike
The 1891 shearers' strike is one of Australia's earliest and most important industrial disputes.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darling_Downs