Yorke Peninsula, the Glossary
The Yorke Peninsula, known as Guuranda by the original inhabitants, the Narungga people, is a peninsula located northwest and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east.[1]
Table of Contents
138 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal History, Adam Goodes, Adelaide, Adelaide Football Club, Adelaide Thunderbirds, Agriculture, Alby Mangels, Althorpe Islands Conservation Park, Ardrossan, South Australia, Arrium, Arthurton, South Australia, Australian Shield, AWB Limited, Balaklava–Moonta railway line, Barley, Barn owl, Bernie Vince, Biodiversity, Bird Islands Conservation Park, British colonisation of South Australia, Brownlow Medal, Bush stone-curlew, Cape York Peninsula, Carribie Conservation Park, Cats in Australia, Cecil Hincks, Charles Philip Yorke, Clan, Clinton Conservation Park, Clinton, South Australia, Copper Coast, Cowell, South Australia, Curramulka, Department for Environment and Water (South Australia), Desert, Dhilba Guuranda–Innes National Park, Division of Grey, Dolomite (rock), Dusk, Ecology, Electoral district of Frome, Electoral district of Narungga, Electoral district of Yorke Peninsula, Emily Taheny, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Yorke Block, Fairy tern, Ferry, Fiona O'Loughlin (comedian), ... Expand index (88 more) »
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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 History
Aboriginal History is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published as an open access journal by Aboriginal History Inc and ANU Press.
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Adam Goodes
Adam Roy Goodes (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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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.
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The Adelaide Football Club, nicknamed the Crows, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Adelaide, South Australia that was founded in 1990.
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Adelaide Thunderbirds
Adelaide Thunderbirds are an Australian professional netball team based in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
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Alby Mangels
Zwier Albertus "Alby" Mangels (born 16 November 1948) is an Australian adventurer and documentary film-maker widely remembered for his World Safari adventure travel films (World Safari, World Safari II, and World Safari III).
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Althorpe Islands Conservation Park
Althorpe Islands Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia occupying the Althorpe Island, Haystack Island and Seal Island in Investigator Strait near the town of Stenhouse Bay.
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Ardrossan, South Australia
Ardrossan is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located on the eastern coast of the Yorke Peninsula, about by road from the Adelaide city centre.
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Arrium
Arrium was an Australian mining and materials company, employing nearly 10,000 workers, that went into voluntary administration in 2016 with debts of more than $2 billion.
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Arthurton, South Australia
Arthurton is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia.
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Australian Shield
The Australian Shield is a geological feature known as a shield that occupies more than half of the continent of Australia.
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AWB Limited
AWB Limited was a major grain marketing organisation based in Australia.
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Balaklava–Moonta railway line
The Balaklava–Moonta railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.
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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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Barn owl
The barn owl (Tyto alba) is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds, living almost everywhere except for polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalayas, some Indonesian islands and some Pacific Islands.
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Bernie Vince
Bernard Vince (born 2 October 1985) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Bird Islands Conservation Park
Bird Islands Conservation Park is a protected area in eastern Spencer Gulf, South Australia.
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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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Brownlow Medal
The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as Charlie), is awarded to the fairest and best player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by the four officiating field umpires after each game.
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Bush stone-curlew
The bush stone-curlew or bush thick-knee (Burhinus grallarius, obsolete name Burhinus magnirostris) is a large, ground-dwelling bird endemic to Australia.
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Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Carribie Conservation Park
Carribie Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about west of Warooka in the locality of Corny Point.
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Cats in Australia
Cats are an invasive species in Australia.
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Cecil Hincks
Sir Cecil Stephen Hincks (18 February 1894 – 1 January 1963), Australian politician, was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly who was Minister of Lands, Irrigation and Repatriation in Thomas Playford's government.
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Charles Philip Yorke
Charles Philip Yorke (12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834) was a British politician.
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Clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent.
Clinton Conservation Park
Clinton Conservation Park, formerly the Clinton National Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the coastline at the north end of Gulf St Vincent.
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Clinton, South Australia
Clinton (also known as Port Clinton) is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula overlooking the north west head of Gulf St Vincent about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about north-east of the municipal seat of Maitland.
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Copper Coast
Copper Coast is a region of South Australia situated in Northern Yorke Peninsula and comprising the towns of Wallaroo, Kadina, Moonta, Paskeville and Port Hughes.
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Cowell, South Australia
Cowell is a coastal town on Franklin Harbor on the eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula, in South Australia on the Lincoln Highway 111 km south of the major town of Whyalla.
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Curramulka
Curramulka, nicknamed "the Currie", is a town in the Australian state of South Australia on the Yorke Peninsula.
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Department for Environment and Water (South Australia)
The Department for Environment and Water (DEW) is a department of the Government of South Australia.
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Desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.
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Dhilba Guuranda–Innes National Park
Dhilba Guuranda–Innes National Park, formerly Innes National Park, is an IUCN-designated protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located on the southwest tip of Yorke Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide. Yorke Peninsula and Dhilba Guuranda–Innes National Park are Eyre Yorke Block.
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Division of Grey
The Division of Grey is an Australian electoral division in South Australia.
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Dolomite (rock)
Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.
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Dusk
Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight after sunset and just before nightfall.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
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Electoral district of Frome
Frome is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.
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Electoral district of Narungga
Narungga is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.
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Electoral district of Yorke Peninsula
Yorke Peninsula was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state (colony until 1901) of South Australia from 1884 to 1902 and from 1915 to 1970.
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Emily Taheny
Emily Taheny (born 1978) is an Australian comedian, television actress and singer known for her multiple appearances on the sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc. from 2003 through 2007, her role as "Kat" on the 2009 series The Jesters, and as a regular cast member on long-running satirical news program Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell.
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Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula are Eyre Yorke Block and Physiographic sections.
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Eyre Yorke Block
The Eyre Yorke Block, also known as the Eyre and Yorke mallee, is an interim Australian (IBRA) bioregion and a World Wildlife Fund ecoregion covering part of the Eyre Peninsula and all of Yorke Peninsula as well as land to its immediate east in South Australia.
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Fairy tern
The fairy tern (Sternula nereis) is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific.
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Ferry
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.
Fiona Taheny (born 16 July 1963), commonly known as Fiona O'Loughlin, is an Australian comedian.
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Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife
The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife is an Australian not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation that was incorporated on 29 June 1970.
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Frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface.
George Adrian Hewett (born 29 December 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL), having been initially drafted to the Sydney Swans.
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Gulf St Vincent
Gulf St Vincent, sometimes referred to as St Vincent Gulf, St Vincent's Gulf or Gulf of St Vincent, is the eastern of two large inlets of water on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, the other being the larger Spencer Gulf, from which it is separated by Yorke Peninsula.
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Gulf St Vincent Important Bird Area
The Gulf St Vincent Important Bird Area comprises land extending along the coast of Gulf St Vincent, north of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Hannah Button
Hannah Button (née Martin, born 27 November 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).
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Harry Bartlett (Australian politician)
Henry Bartlett (6 January 1835 – 8 July 1915) was a politician in the colony of South Australia, dubbed "Father of the West Coast".
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High-pressure area
A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the surrounding regions.
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Hooded plover
The hooded plover or hooded dotterel (Charadrius cucullatus) is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae.
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Hummock Range
The Hummocks or Hummock Range is a range of hills in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges extending north from the eastern edge of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia.
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Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
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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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Investigator Strait
Investigator Strait is a body of water in South Australia lying between the Yorke Peninsula, on the Australian mainland, and Kangaroo Island.
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Jamie Tape
Jamie Tape (15 April 1974 – 3 January 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Jarrad Redden
Jarrad Redden (born 27 December 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Jay Schulz
Jay Schulz (born 18 April 1985) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League from 2010 to 2016.
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John Olsen
John Wayne Olsen, AO (born 7 June 1945) is an Australian former politician, diplomat and football commissioner.
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Kadina, South Australia
Kadina is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of the Australian state of South Australia, approximately 144 kilometres north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (lit. ' Island of the Dead' in the language of the Kaurna people), is Australia's third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island.
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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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Ketch
A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post.
Leslie Heath
Leslie Roach (Larry) Heath (17 April 1902 – 16 July 1957) was an Australian politician and admired Horse Racing Administrator.
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Leven Beach Conservation Park
Leven Beach Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia, located on the north coast of the lower part of Yorke Peninsula within the boundaries of the gazetted localities of Point Souttar and The Pines about west north-west of Point Turton.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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Local extinction
Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.
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Lucky Bay
Lucky Bay is a bay located at on the south coast of Western Australia, in the Cape Le Grand National Park.
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Maitland, South Australia
Maitland is a town on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia.
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Malcolm Karpany
Malcolm Karpany (born 1 June 1995) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Malleefowl
The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related).
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Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland.
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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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The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.
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Minlacowie Conservation Park
Minlacowie Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia about west of Stansbury.
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Minlaton, South Australia
Minlaton is a town in central Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
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Monarto Safari Park
Monarto Safari Park, formerly known as Monarto Zoological Park and Monarto Zoo, is a open-range zoo located in South Australia administered by the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.
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Monsoon
A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.
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Moonta, South Australia
Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Narungga
The Narungga people, also spelt Narangga, are a group of Aboriginal Australians whose traditional lands are located throughout Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
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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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Natural Heritage Trust
The Natural Heritage Trust (NHT), or National Heritage Trust Account was set up in 1997 by means of the Natural Heritage Trust of Australia Act 1997, with the main objective of conserving the "natural capital infrastructure" of Australia.
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Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas Thomas Baudin (17 February 175416 September 1803) was a French explorer, cartographer, naturalist and hydrographer, most notable for his explorations in Australia and the southern Pacific.
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The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is a professional Australian rules football club.
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Paskeville, South Australia
Paskeville is a town on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
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Peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.
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Physical geography
Physical geography (also known as physiography) is one of the three main branches of geography.
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Point Davenport Conservation Park
Point Davenport Conservation Park is a protected area occupying Point Davenpoint, a headland between Foul Bay and Sturt Bay on the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia about south of Warooka.
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Point Pearce, South Australia
Point Pearce, also spelt Point Pierce in the past, is a town in the Australian state of South Australia.
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Port Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia.
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Port Giles, South Australia
Port Giles is a port on Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Coobowie between the towns of Stansbury and Edithburgh.
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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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Ramsay Conservation Park
Ramsay Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Yorke Peninsula in the locality of Ramsay about west-northwest of the town of Port Vincent.
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Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.
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Red-tailed phascogale
The red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura), also known as the red-tailed wambenger, red-tailed mousesack or kenngoor, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in inland areas of south-western Western Australia, and has been reintroduced in sanctuaries in WA and the Northern Territory.
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Richard Champion
Richard Champion (born 14 April 1968 on Yorke Peninsula in Kadina, South Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League (AFL) and South Australian National Football Leagues (SANFL).
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Richard Williams (RAAF officer)
Air Marshal Sir Richard Williams, (3 August 1890 – 7 February 1980), is widely regarded as the "father" of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
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Sam Jacobs (born 10 April 1988) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Greater Western Sydney Giants, Adelaide Crows and Carlton Blues in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Sarah Klau
Sarah Klau (born 30 September 1994) is an Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league, playing for the New South Wales Swifts.
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Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.
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Scott McMahon
Scott McMahon (born 2 June 1986) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.
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Shield (geology)
A shield is a large area of exposed Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks that form tectonically stable areas.
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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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Southern brown bandicoot
The southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia.
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Southern Yorke Peninsula Important Bird Area
The Southern Yorke Peninsula Important Bird Area is a tract of land consisting of most of the south-western tip of the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia about west of Adelaide.
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Species reintroduction
Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.
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Spencer Gulf
The Spencer Gulf is the westernmost and larger of two large inlets (the other being Gulf St Vincent) on the southern coast of Australia, in the state of South Australia, facing the Great Australian Bight.
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Stansbury, South Australia
Stansbury (postcode 5582) is a small town, located in the southern east coast of Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.
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State Library of South Australia
The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales.
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Tammar wallaby
The tammar wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii), also known as the dama wallaby or darma wallaby, is a small macropod native to South and Western Australia.
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Telstra
Telstra Group Limited is an Australian telecommunications company that builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets related products and services.
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Thidna Conservation Park
Thidna Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Yorke Peninsula in the locality of Corny Point about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-west of the municipal seat of Maitland.
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Threatened species
A threatened species is any species (including animals, plants and fungi) which is vulnerable to extinction in the near future.
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Traffic light
Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – also known as robots in South Africa and Namibia – are signaling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations in order to control the flow of traffic.
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Troubridge Island Conservation Park
Troubridge Island Conservation Park is a protected area includes all of Troubridge Island and some adjoining waters about East-southeast of Edithburgh in South Australia and about southwest of Adelaide.
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Wallaroo, South Australia
Wallaroo is a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, northwest of Adelaide.
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Warrenben Conservation Park
Warrenben Conservation Park (formerly Warrenben National Park) is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Yorke Peninsula of about north-east of Marion Bay.
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Wedge Island (South Australia)
Wedge Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located within the island group known as the Gambier Islands near the entrance to Spencer Gulf.
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West Coast Eagles
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.
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Western pygmy possum
The western pygmy possum (Cercartetus concinnus), also known as the southwestern pygmy possum or the mundarda, is a small marsupial found in Australia.
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Western quoll
The western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) is Western Australia's largest endemic mammalian carnivore.
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Wills Creek Conservation Park
Wills Creek Conservation Park is a protected area located on the Yorke Peninsula adjoining the north west coast of Gulf St Vincent in South Australia immediately east of Price.
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World Association of Zoos and Aquariums
The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is the "umbrella" organization for the world zoo and aquarium community.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Woylie
The woylie or brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata) is a small, critically endangered mammal native to forests and shrubland of Australia.
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Yorke Peninsula Country Times
Yorke Peninsula Country Times is a weekly South Australian newspaper, which was first published on 4 September 1968.
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Yorketown, South Australia
Yorketown is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the southern Yorke Peninsula about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the municipal seat of Maitland.
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See also
Eyre Yorke Block
- Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park
- Coffin Bay National Park
- Dhilba Guuranda–Innes National Park
- Eyre Peninsula
- Eyre Yorke Block
- Gawler Ranges National Park
- Hambidge Wilderness Protection Area
- Hincks Wilderness Protection Area
- Lincoln National Park
- Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area
- Wahgunyah Conservation Park
- Yalata Indigenous Protected Area
- Yorke Peninsula
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorke_Peninsula
Also known as Great Southern Ark, Guuranda, History of the Yorke Peninsula, Marna Banggara, Yorke's Peninsula, Yorkes Peninsula.
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