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Burketown, the Glossary

Burketown is an isolated outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.^[1]

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1865 establishments in Australia
Shire of Burke

A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands.

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Aboriginal reserve

An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation.

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Albert River (Gulf Savannah)

The Albert River is a river in the Gulf Country of Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Albert River (Gulf Savannah) are Gulf of Carpentaria and north West Queensland.

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Alice Springs

Alice Springs (Mparntwe) is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; the third largest settlement after Darwin and Palmerston.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) is the independent statutory authority responsible for the development of a national curriculum, a national assessment program, and a national data collection and reporting program that supports learning for Australian students.

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Australian native police

Australian native police were specialised mounted military units consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers under the command of White officers appointed by colonial governments.

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Barramundi

The barramundi (Lates calcarifer), Asian sea bass, or giant sea perch (also known as dangri or apahap) is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Perciformes.

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Boiling Down Works, Burketown

Boiling Down Works is a heritage-listed boiling down works at Truganinni Road, Burketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

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Burke and Wills expedition

The Burke and Wills expedition was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria (RSV) in Australia in 1860–61.

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Burketown Airport

Burketown Airport is an airport located southwest of Burketown, Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Burketown Airport are north West Queensland.

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Burketown Post Office

Burketown Post Office is a heritage-listed former post office at Musgrave Street, Burketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.

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Cairns

Cairns (Gimuy) is a city in the Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia, on the tropical north east coast of Far North Queensland.

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Carpentaria, Queensland

Carpentaria is a coastal locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Division of Kennedy

The Division of Kennedy is an Australian electoral division in the state of Queensland. Burketown and division of Kennedy are north West Queensland.

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Doomadgee, Queensland

Doomadgee is a town and a locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee, Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Doomadgee, Queensland are north West Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Electoral district of Traeger

Traeger is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Francis Cadell (explorer)

Francis William Cadell (9 February 1822 – 1879) was a European explorer of Australia, most remembered for opening the Murray River up for transport by steamship and for his activities as a slave trader.

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Gangalidda, Queensland

Gangalidda is a coastal locality in the Aboriginal Shire of Doomadgee, Queensland, Australia, on the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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Garrwa people

The Garrwa people, also spelt Karawa and Garawa, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the Northern Territory, whose traditional lands extended from east of the McArthur River at Borroloola to Doomadgee and the Nicholson River in Queensland.

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Gregory, Queensland

Gregory (formerly Gregory Downs) is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Gregory, Queensland are north West Queensland, Shire of Burke and towns in Queensland.

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Gulf Country

The Gulf Country or North West Queensland is the region of woodland and savanna grassland surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria in north western Queensland and eastern Northern Territory on the north coast of Australia. Burketown and Gulf Country are Gulf of Carpentaria and north West Queensland.

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Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a sea off the northern coast of Australia.

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Humpy

A humpy, also known as a gunyah, wurley, wurly, wurlie, mia-mia, wiltija, is a small, temporary shelter, traditionally used by Australian Aboriginal people.

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Jakarta

Jakarta, officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia.

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John Lort Stokes

Admiral John Lort Stokes (1 August 1811 – 11 June 1885) was a Royal Navy officer who served onboard for almost eighteen years.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Landsborough Tree

Landsborough Tree is a heritage-listed tree at Burketown, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.

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Linguistic homeland

In historical linguistics, the homeland or Urheimat (from German ur- "original" and Heimat, home) of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages.

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List of heritage registers

This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Morning Glory cloud

The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon consisting of a low-level atmospheric solitary wave and associated cloud, occasionally observed in different locations around the world. Burketown and Morning Glory cloud are Gulf of Carpentaria and north West Queensland.

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Mornington Island

Mornington Island, also known as Kunhanhaa, is an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Shire of Mornington, Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Mornington Island are Gulf of Carpentaria.

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Mount Isa

Mount Isa is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Mount Isa are north West Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Native title in Australia

Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs.

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Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia.

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Nicholson, Queensland

Nicholson is a coastal locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Nicholson, Queensland are Shire of Burke.

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Normanton, Queensland

Normanton is an outback town and coastal locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia. Burketown and Normanton, Queensland are Gulf of Carpentaria, north West Queensland and towns in Queensland.

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Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

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Old Westmoreland Homestead

Old Westmoreland Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Westmoreland Station, Nicholson, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.

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Open Brethren

The Open Brethren, sometimes called Christian Brethren, are a group of Evangelical Christian churches that arose in the late 1820s as part of the Assembly Movement within the Plymouth Brethren tradition.

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Outback

The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.

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Pama–Nyungan languages

The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia.

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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Queensland Family History Society

The Queensland Family History Society (QFHS) is an incorporated association formed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland Government

The Queensland Government is the state government of Queensland, Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Queensland Health

Queensland Health is the name of the overall public health service in the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Queensland Police Service

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto of "Firmness with Courtesy" was changed to "With Honour We Serve".

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Queensland State Emergency Service

The State Emergency Service (SES) in Queensland, Australila is a volunteer-based organisation of the Queensland Government and forms part of the Queensland Police Service (QPS), assisting with disaster management as an emergency services auxiliary.

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Rex Airlines

Rex Airlines Pty Ltd is an Australian regional airline based in Mascot, New South Wales.

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Robert O'Hara Burke

Robert O'Hara Burke (6 May 1821c. 28 June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer.

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Robert Towns

Robert Towns (10 November 1794 – 11 April 1873) was a British master mariner who settled in Australia as a businessman, sandalwood merchant, colonist, shipowner, pastoralist, politician, whaler and civic leader.

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Royal Flying Doctor Service

The Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS), commonly known as the Flying Doctor, is an air medical service in Australia.

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Savannah Way

The Savannah Way is a route of highways and major roads across the tropical savannahs of northern Australia, linking Cairns in Queensland with Broome in Western Australia. Burketown and savannah Way are north West Queensland.

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School of the Air

School of the Air is a generic term for correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia where some or all classes were historically conducted by radio, although this is now replaced by telephone and internet technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burketown

Also known as Burke Town, Burketown, Queensland.

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Burketown, the Glossary

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See also

1865 establishments in Australia

Shire of Burke

References