Riverland, the Glossary
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113 relations: ABC Riverland, ABC Television (Australian TV network), Aboriginal Australians, ABS (TV station), Adelaide, Adelaide Airport, Aerodrome, Agriculture, Almond, Anne Ruston, Australian Aboriginal culture, Australian Archaeology, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian cuisine, Australian House of Representatives, Australian Senate, Banrock Station Wetland Complex, Barmera, Berri Barmera Council, Berri, South Australia, Bethlehem, Billiatt Conservation Park, Blanchetown, British colonisation of South Australia, Cadell, South Australia, Calperum Station (reserve), Chert, Chowilla floodplain, Chowilla Regional Reserve, Cobdogla, Cooltong, South Australia, Darling River, District Council of Loxton Waikerie, Division of Barker, Donald Campbell, Economic depression, Electoral district of Chaffey, Electoral district of Stuart, Erawirung, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus largiflorens, Flinders University, German Australians, Glossop High School, Golden Heights, South Australia, Government of South Australia, Grape, Grindstone, Horticulture, Internment, ... Expand index (63 more) »
ABC Riverland
ABC Riverland is an ABC Local Radio station based in Renmark, South Australia, broadcasting to the Riverland and Mallee region.
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ABC Television (Australian TV network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
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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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ABS (TV station)
ABC Television in South Australia comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of South Australia, headquartered in Adelaide.
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Adelaide
Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.
Adelaide Airport
Adelaide Airport is an international, domestic, and general aviation airport, and the principal airport of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Aerodrome
An aerodrome is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use.
Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Almond
The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus.
Anne Ruston
Anne Sowerby Ruston (born 10 June 1963) is an Australian politician who served as Minister for Families and Social Services in the Morrison government from 2019 to 2022.
Australian Aboriginal culture
Australian Aboriginal culture includes a number of practices and ceremonies centered on a belief in the Dreamtime and other mythology.
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Australian Archaeology
Australian Archaeology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Australian Archaeological Association.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, environmental, and social issues to advise the Australian Government.
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Australian cuisine
Australian cuisine is the food and cooking practices of Australia and its inhabitants.
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Australian House of Representatives
The Australian House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate.
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Australian Senate
The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.
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Banrock Station Wetland Complex
Banrock Station Wetland Complex is a wetland complex located in South Australia which has been recognised as being of international importance by designation under the Ramsar Convention. Riverland and Banrock Station Wetland Complex are Murray River and Ramsar sites in Australia.
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Barmera
Barmera is a town in the Riverland region of South Australia.
Berri Barmera Council
Berri Barmera Council is a local government area in the Riverland region of South Australia.
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Berri, South Australia
Berri is a town in the Riverland region of South Australia.
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Bethlehem
Bethlehem (بيت لحم,,; בֵּית לֶחֶם) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem.
Billiatt Conservation Park
Billiatt Conservation Park, formerly the Billiatt National Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the locality of Sandalwood about east of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Blanchetown
Blanchetown is a small township in South Australia, on the (west) bank of the Murray River, northeast of Adelaide.
British colonisation of South Australia
British colonisation of South Australia describes the planning and establishment of the colony of South Australia by the British government, covering the period from 1829, when the idea was raised by the then-imprisoned Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to 1842, when the South Australia Act 1842 changed the form of government to a Crown colony.
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Cadell, South Australia
Cadell is a town and locality situated near the north western edge of South Australia's Riverland on the inside of the large southward bend in the Murray River.
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Calperum Station (reserve)
Calperum Station, also known as Calperum Reserve, is a nature reserve located in the east of the Australian state of South Australia about north-west of the town of Renmark and about east of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Chert
Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).
Chowilla floodplain
The Chowilla floodplain is a floodplain adjacent to the Murray River, upstream of Renmark, South Australia.
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Chowilla Regional Reserve
Chowilla Regional Reserve is protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Chowilla about north-east of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Cobdogla
Cobdogla is a town in the Riverland region of South Australia, The town is on the Murray River, north-east of the state capital, Adelaide.
Cooltong, South Australia
Cooltong is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia.
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Darling River
The Darling River (Paakantyi: Baaka or Barka) is the third-longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth.
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District Council of Loxton Waikerie
The District Council of Loxton Waikerie is a local government area in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia.
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Division of Barker
The Division of Barker is an Australian electoral division in the south-east of South Australia.
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Donald Campbell
Donald Malcolm Campbell, (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Economic depression
An economic depression is a period of carried long-term economic downturn that is the result of lowered economic activity in one major or more national economies.
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Electoral district of Chaffey
Chaffey, created in 1936, is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.
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Electoral district of Stuart
Stuart is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.
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Erawirung
The Erawirung (Yirawirung, Jirawirung) people, also known as Yirau, Juju and other names, were an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional territory was located in what is today the Riverland of South Australia.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis, commonly known as the river red gum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to Australia.
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Eucalyptus largiflorens
Eucalyptus largiflorens, or black box or river box, is a tree that is endemic to Australia.
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Flinders University
Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
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German Australians
German Australians (Deutsch-Australier) are Australians with German ancestry.
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Glossop High School
Berri Regional Secondary is a public high school in the Riverland of South Australia.
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Golden Heights, South Australia
Golden Heights is a locality in the Riverland region of South Australia west of Waikerie.
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Government of South Australia
The Government of South Australia, also referred to as the South Australian Government or the SA Government, is the executive branch of the state of South Australia.
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Grape
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis.
Grindstone
A grindstone, also known as grinding stone, is a sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools, used since ancient times.
Horticulture
Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.
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Internment
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.
Investment fund
An investment fund is a way of investing money alongside other investors in order to benefit from the inherent advantages of working as part of a group such as reducing the risks of the investment by a significant percentage.
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Italian Australians
Italian Australians (italo-australiani) are Australian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Australia during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Australia.
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Kingston On Murray, South Australia
Kingston On Murray (formerly Thurk and Kingston O.M.) is a town on the south bank of the Murray River in the Riverland region of South Australia.
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Lake Bonney Riverland
Lake Bonney Riverland (alternative name: Barmera) is a freshwater lake located in the Riverland region of South Australia.
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Last Glacial Period
The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.
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Loch Luna Game Reserve
Loch Luna Reserve is a protected area covering the floodplain on the north side of the River Murray in South Australia between the towns of Kingston-on-Murray in the west and Cobdogla in the east. Riverland and Loch Luna Game Reserve are Murray River.
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Loveday, South Australia
Loveday is a town and locality in the Riverland region of South Australia, located east of the Moorook Game Reserve, 6 km south-west of Barmera, and 30 km north-west of Loxton.
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Loxton High School
Loxton High School is a co-educational secondary school (Years 7 to 12) with a current enrolment of 620 students in Loxton, South Australia.
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Loxton railway line
The Loxton railway line is a closed railway line in the northern Murray Mallee region of South Australia.
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Loxton, South Australia
Loxton is a town on the south bank of the River Murray in the Riverland region of South Australia.
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Lyrup, South Australia
Lyrup is a town in South Australia's rural Riverland area.
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Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).
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Mid Murray Council
The Mid Murray Council is a local government area in South Australia in the Murray and Mallee region of South Australia.
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Midden
A midden is an old dump for domestic waste.
Mildura
Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia.
Monash, South Australia
Monash is a town in the Riverland area of South Australia.
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Moorook Game Reserve
Moorook Game Reserve is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia covering the floodplain on the south side of the River Murray in the localities of Kingston-on-Murray and Moorook immediately south of the section of the Sturt Highway that passes between the towns of Kingston-on-Murray in the west and Cobdogla in the east. Riverland and Moorook Game Reserve are Murray River.
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Moorook, South Australia
Moorook is a town and locality in Australian state of South Australia.
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Motorsport
Motorsport(s) or motor sport(s) are sporting events, competitions and related activities that primarily involve the use of automobiles, motorcycles, motorboats and powered aircraft.
Murray Bridge, South Australia
Murray Bridge (formerly Mobilong and Edwards Crossing; Pomberuk) is a city in the Australian state of South Australia, located east-southeast of the state's capital city, Adelaide, and north of the town of Meningie.
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Murray River
The Murray River (in South Australia: River Murray) (Ngarrindjeri: Millewa, Yorta Yorta: Dhungala (Tongala)) is a river in Southeastern Australia.
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Murray River National Park
Murray River National Park is a protected area in South Australia located between and north east of the Adelaide city centre, lying along the Murray River. The national park is classified as an IUCN Category VI protected area. the national park comprises more than, and includes a vast network of Murray River wetlands and floodplains. Riverland and Murray River National Park are Murray River.
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The Murray Valley Football Netball League (MVFNL) is an Australian rules football League located in South Australia's Riverland region.
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Murtoa
Murtoa is a town in Victoria, Australia, situated around Lake Marma on the Wimmera Highway, north-west of the state capital, Melbourne.
Mussel
Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.
Mypolonga, South Australia
Mypolonga is a rural town in South Australia, situated on the western side of the lower Murray River, between Mannum and Murray Bridge.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Ngaiawang
The Ngaiawang (Ngayawang) were an Aboriginal Australian people of the western Riverland area of South Australia, with a language considered part of the Lower Murray group.
Ngawait
The Ngawait, also spelt Ngawadj and other variations, and also known as Eritark and other names, were an Aboriginal Australian people of the mid-Riverland region, spanning the Murray River in South Australia.
Nicola Centofanti
Nicola Jane Centofanti (born 12 February 1982) is an Australian politician.
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Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
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Paringa Bridge
The Paringa Bridge carries the Sturt Highway across the Murray River in Paringa, South Australia.
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Primary sector of the economy
The primary sector of the economy includes any industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).
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Renmark Paringa Council
The Renmark Paringa Council is a local government area located adjacent to the Victorian border, in the Riverland, South Australia.
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Renmark, South Australia
Renmark is a town in South Australia's rural Riverland area, and is located northeast of Adelaide, on the banks of the River Murray.
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Riverland Biosphere Reserve
The Riverland Biosphere Reserve, formerly the Bookmark Biosphere Reserve, is a area of land in eastern South Australia, adjoining the states of New South Wales and Victoria. Riverland and Riverland Biosphere Reserve are Murray River.
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The Riverland Football League is an Australian rules football league located in South Australia's Riverland region.
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Riverland Mallee Important Bird Area
The Riverland Mallee Important Bird Area comprises a tract of mallee habitat and riverine woodland extending from near Waikerie in the Riverland region in eastern South Australia north-eastwards into south-western New South Wales.
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Riverland Paddling Marathon
The Riverland Paddling Marathon (RPM) is a paddling marathon held over 3 days on the June Long weekend on the Murray River from Berri to Morgan in South Australia.
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Riverland wine region
The Riverland wine region is an Australian geographical indication roughly corresponding to the Riverland tourism region in South Australia.
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Royal commission
A royal commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue in some monarchies.
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SES/RTS
SES/RTS, part of the WIN Television network, are Australian television stations licensed to, and serving the rural south-east portion of South Australia, including Mount Gambier, the Limestone Coast and the Riverland.
Soldier settlement (Australia)
Soldier settlement was the settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under soldier settlement schemes administered by state governments after World War I and World War II.
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house; Is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia.
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South Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia.
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South Australian wine
The South Australian wine industry is responsible for more than half the production of all Australian wine.
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Sturt Highway
Sturt Highway is an Australian national highway in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia.
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Sunlands, South Australia
Sunlands is a locality on the left bank of the Murray River, west of Waikerie, South Australia.
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Sunraysia
Sunraysia is a region located in northwestern Victoria and southwestern New South Wales in Australia.
Tailem Bend, South Australia
Tailem Bend (locally, "Tailem") is a rural town in South Australia, south-east of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Tim Whetstone
Timothy John Whetstone (born 5 March 1960) is an Australian politician representing the seat of Chaffey in the South Australian House of Assembly for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2010 election.
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Tony Pasin
Antony "Tony" Pasin (born 1 October 1977) is an Australian politician.
Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Waikerie, South Australia
Waikerie is a rural town in the Riverland region of South Australia on the south bank of the Murray River.
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William Chaffey
William Benjamin Chaffey, CMG (21 October 1856 – 4 June 1926) was a Canadian engineer and irrigation planner who with his older brother George Chaffey developed what became the cities of Etiwanda, California, Ontario, California, and Upland, California in the United States of America, as well as the cities of Mildura, Victoria and the town of Renmark, South Australia, in Australia.
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WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales.
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Windsurfing
Windsurfing is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zorbing
Zorbing (also known as globe-riding, sphereing, orbing) is the recreation or sport of rolling downhill inside an orb, typically made of transparent plastic.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverland
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