"the continent, particularly western Queensland, the southern Northern Territory, particularly the Barkly Tableland, and northeastern South Australia. Its abundance or even presence in any given area is heavily dependent on availability of food; spells of significant rainfall inland lead to surges in rodent numbers, which in turn leads to irruptions of letter-winged kites. Nesting and raising multiple broods in succession, the kite population may increase ten-fold. Major irruptions have taken place in 1951–53, 1969–70, and 1976–77. Eventually dry conditions lead to a fall in rodent numbers and dispersal of birds, which often starve. Its range may spread south with rodent"
"in the Australian Handbook as being on a transport, post and telegraph route and having a customs post, court and police station besides 2 hotels and school and various service and supply businesses. It also served an important role as a social centre for a scattered community. The Barclay Tableland Shire was formed on 10 February 1914 from portions of Burke and Cloncurry Shires with Camooweal at its centre. The name of the shire was changed to Barkly in 1919. The land on which the shire hall was constructed was a local government reserve on the corner of Nowranie Street"
"cattle grazing country in Australia. Some of the very large cattle stations located on the Tableland include Alexandria Station, Alroy Downs, Anthony Lagoon, Austral Downs, Avon Downs, Banka Banka, Brunette Downs, Creswell Downs, Eva Downs, Helen Springs, Newcastle Waters and Lake Nash Station. The region attracts more than 140,000 tourists average each year. The Barkly Tableland (MGD02) is an IBRA biogeographic subregion of an area of within the Mitchell Grass Downs IBRA region MGD. See Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia The dominant flora of the Tableland is semi-arid savanna of Mitchell grass and the area forms most of the Mitchell"
"Northern Tablelands The Northern Tablelands, also known as the New England Tableland, is a plateau and a region of the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales, Australia. It includes the New England Range, the narrow highlands area of the New England region, stretching from the Moonbi Range in the south to the Queensland border in the north. The region corresponds generally to the Bureau of Meteorology forecast area for the Northern Tablelands which in this case includes Inverell although it is significantly lower in elevation. These tablelands are the largest highland area in Australia, covering approximately 18,197 square"
"questioned. William Landsborough in 1861 named the Barkly Tablelands after the Governor of Victoria, His Excellency, Sir Henry Barkly. The first settler to the area was John Sutherland, who took up the Rocklands lease in 1865. Stock losses to the local dingos and wedge-tailed eagles; lack of water and isolation soon forced him to abandon his lease. The Englishmen Benjamin Crosthwaite and William Tetley, who were marginally more successful, took up the lease again in 1876. The initial town was gazetted in 1884 to be built on a plot by Lake Francis. A year later the present site was re-gazetted"
"the Hann Tableland National Park. It lacks visitor facilities with the exception of the Bicentennial National Trail. Hann Tableland National Park Hann Tableland is a national park in Far North Queensland (Australia), 1,436 km northwest of Brisbane. It is located in the northern section of Paddys Green, a locality in the Tablelands Region local government area. It was first set aside as national park in 1989 and nearly doubled in size with an expansion in 2004. The park is located within the Einasleigh Uplands bioregion and the Mitchell River water catchment area. The national park was established to conserve the"
"Hann Tableland National Park Hann Tableland is a national park in Far North Queensland (Australia), 1,436 km northwest of Brisbane. It is located in the northern section of Paddys Green, a locality in the Tablelands Region local government area. It was first set aside as national park in 1989 and nearly doubled in size with an expansion in 2004. The park is located within the Einasleigh Uplands bioregion and the Mitchell River water catchment area. The national park was established to conserve the forests of the Hann Tableland mountain range. Three rare or threatened plant species have been identified within"
"original diggings. The town of Barkly developed about two miles from this area, and a new cemetery was begun. Barkly has a small Anglican church, a hall, and a few scattered houses. The school has been closed and the buildings removed. There is a rose and lavender farm which is open to the public at various times during the year. A headstone was placed on James Law's grave on 5 May 1985. In 1996 a memorial stone was placed at the site of the first gold discovery. Barkly, Victoria Barkly is a locality in Victoria, Australia, about northwest of Melbourne."
"Barkly, Victoria Barkly is a locality in Victoria, Australia, about northwest of Melbourne. It is near the intersection of the road from Landsborough to Redbank, and the road from Frenchmans to St Arnaud. It is close to the west boundary of the St Arnaud Range National Park. The area was first called the Navarre Diggings when gold was discovered there in June 1859 by a group led by James Law (1827-1910). It was about from the Navarre township. There was an immediate goldrush and there were soon about 700 people on the diggings. At the peak of the rush, there"
"Tablelands railway line, Queensland The Tablelands line is a railway line in North Queensland, Australia. It was opened in a series of sections between 1887 and 1916. It commences at Cairns and at its maximum extent, reached Ravenshoe at the southern end of the Atherton Tableland. The rail system served by this line was unusual for Queensland in that the majority of lines that connected to it were built by private companies and later purchased by the Queensland Government. Following the discovery of tin at Herberton in 1879, the ports of Cairns and Port Douglas were established, competing for the"
"New England Tablelands (biogeographic region) New England Tablelands (code NET),an interim Australian bioregion, is located mainly in New South Wales, comprising , of which or 95.23 per cent of the bioregion lies within New South Wales; and the residual within Queensland. This bioregion is one of the smaller bioregions in NSW, occupying 3.57 per cent of the state. The New England Tableland Bioregion is a stepped plateau of hills and plains with elevations between on Permian sedimentary rocks, intrusive granites and extensive Tertiary basalts. Rainfall varies considerably from and mean temperatures range from , based on changes with topography. In"
"was acquired by Tom Brinkworth who paid 30 million for the for the property. Brinkworth intended to use the water rights the Uardry holds on the Murrumbidgee to use the property for cropping, to grow corn and silage, to drought proof the rest of his livestock holdings. The merino flock including all of the stud merino will be sold from the property. In 2013 Brinkworth purchased 18,000 head of cattle for million from drought affected properties on the Barkly Tableland owned by the Australian Agricultural Company. Brinkworth then had the cattle moved by droving them a distance of to Uradry"
"Community Hall, Camooweal Community Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall at Barkly Highway, Camooweal, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Rooney Brothers and built from 1922 to 1923 by Hogarth & Hammond. It is also known as Barkly Tablelands Shire Hall. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The Camooweal Community Hall was built in 1922-23 for the Barkly Tableland Shire Council as a council chambers and community hall. William Landsborough was the first European to discover the Barkly Tableland were discovered while he was officially engaged in the search"
"station occupies an area of on the Barkly Tableland, and is currently owned by the Australian Agricultural Company. It is the second largest station in the Northern Territory (after Alexandria Station), and larger than some countries. The cattle run on the property are a mixed herd of Barkly Composite, Brahman and Santa Gertrudis. The station has a carrying capacity of 110,000 head, and an annual turn off of 35,000. The operation requires over 50 staff. The black soil of the station is well covered with Mitchell grass and Flinders grass, with a range of native grasses and herbs appearing following"
"Queensland. Other endangered species that may be seen on the Northern Tablelands include the brush-tailed rock-wallaby (""Petrogale penicillata"") which lives in isolated sections of the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. The Bundarra-Barraba Important Bird Area is one of only three breeding areas in New South Wales for the endangered regent honeyeater. ""The Australian Encyclopaedia"", Vol. VI. Northern Tablelands The Northern Tablelands, also known as the New England Tableland, is a plateau and a region of the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales, Australia. It includes the New England Range, the narrow highlands area of the New England region,"
"Division of Barker The Division of Barker is an Australian Electoral Division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member divisions. It is named for Collet Barker, an early explorer of the region at the mouth of the Murray River. The 63,886 km² seat currently stretches from Morgan in the north to Port MacDonnell in the south, taking in the Murray Mallee, the Riverland, the Murraylands and most of the Barossa Valley, and includes the towns of Barmera, Berri, Bordertown, Coonawarra, Keith,"
"Tablelands Region The Tablelands Region is a local government area in Far North Queensland, Australia inland from the city of Cairns. Established in 2008, it was preceded by four previous local government areas which dated back more than a century. On 1 January 2014, one of those local government areas, the Shire of Mareeba, was re-established independent of the Tablelands Region. It has an estimated operating budget of A$62.2 million. Prior to the 2008 amalgamation, the Tablelands Region consisted the entire area of four previous local government areas: On 11 November 1879, when the ""Divisional Boards Act 1879"" came into"
"the area's soils and climate was augmented by the research of Californian Professor Harold Olmo in 1955 during a government-sponsored trip to Western Australia. Olmo spent eight months in Western Australia at the invitation of the Western Australian Vine Fruits Research Trust, while on leave from his post as Professor of Viticulture at the University of California. When he published his report in 1956, one of the recommendations put forward was that Mount Barker and the Frankland area of Western Australia showed great promise for making table wines in the light traditional European style. This was further backed up by"
"the diet consisted of 10 species: red kangaroo, swamp wallaby, cattle, dusky rat, magpie goose, common brushtail possum, long-haired rat, agile wallaby, European rabbit, and the common wombat. Of the mammals eaten, 20% could be regarded as large. However, the relative proportions of the size of prey mammals varied across regions. In the tropical coast region of the Northern Territory, agile wallabies, dusky rats and magpie geese formed 80% of the diet. In Central Australia, the rabbit has become a substitute for native mammals, and during droughts cattle carcasses provide most of the diet. On the Barkly Tableland, there are"
"in 1949 when the Beebe family moved onto the land. Initially the property occupied an area of . By 1951 Ucharonidge, and most of the Northern pastoral lands, were struck by a serious drought with bushfires destroying a killing over 2,000 head of cattle. The Beebes left the property for a year until good rains fell. The Beebes were among the first to introduce Brahman cattle onto the Barkly tableland in the 1960s. In the mid-1960s William James (Mick) and his brother Roy bought the property from their father. Mick Beebe died in 2004 after years spent improving the herd"
"by four minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Macalister River, south of the locale of Glencairn. From its highest elevation including the east and west branches of the river, the Barkly River descends over its combined course. The river was named in honour of Sir Henry Barkly, , the second Governor of Victoria, serving between 1856 and 1863. Barkly River (Victoria) The Barkly River, a perennial river of the West Gippsland catchment, is located in the Alpine region of the Australian state of Victoria. Formed by the confluence of the Barkly River East Branch that drains a state"
"and Australia's capital Canberra. Southern Tablelands The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and west of the Great Dividing Range. The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cleared and used for grazing purposes. The area is easily accessible to the Australian federal capital city of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The area is included with the Southern Highlands and parts of the South West Slopes in the district that is known as Capital Country. In a wider sense the Southern Tablelands also includes the"
"securing land near Burketown, Queensland. In October 1877, with a companion, Sam Croker, Buchanan began to investigate the country from the known regions round the Rankine to the overland telegraph line, around 500 miles (800 km) away. They discovered much good new land, part of the Barkly Tableland, and has since carried some of the largest herds in Australia. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s Buchanan did a large amount of pioneering, working principally in northern Queensland and the Northern Territory. Buchanan was also noted for his overlanding feats including droving 20,000 head of cattle from Queensland to Glencoe Station. He"
"terms of plants, the region is dominated by stringy bark/box/peppermint species, including ""Eucalyptus caliginosa"", ""E. nova-anglica"", ""E. melliodora"" and ""E. blakelyi"". In the IBRA system it has the code of (NET), and it has nineteen sub-regions: New England Tablelands (biogeographic region) New England Tablelands (code NET),an interim Australian bioregion, is located mainly in New South Wales, comprising , of which or 95.23 per cent of the bioregion lies within New South Wales; and the residual within Queensland. This bioregion is one of the smaller bioregions in NSW, occupying 3.57 per cent of the state. The New England Tableland Bioregion is"
"Tablelands in Far North Queensland at altitudes of above sea level. Its range is from Danbulla to the upper Barron River, though most of its rainforest habitat has been cleared for agriculture, and it is found in protected remnants such as Mount Hypipamee National Park, Danbulla National Park, Crater Lakes National Park, Curtain Fig Tree National Park, and Hallorans Hill Conservation Park. Found on basalt- or granite-based soil, it is a component of complex notophyll vine forest or rainforest, where it is a canopy or emergent tree. This forest, also known as Mabi forest, has an uneven canopy layer to"
"Barkly Tableland and found an inland river flowing south, which he named the Herbert, but was later renamed the Georgina River. Little water could be found and no trace of Burke and Wills and, deciding not to continue he turned north again, arriving back at the depot at the Albert River on 19 January 1862. On 10 February he commenced another exploration in search of Burke and Wills first of all travelling east to the Flinders River, where the other Queensland search party, headed by Frederick Walker had found tracks of Burke and Wills. They followed the tracks south but"
"election. In 2008, Tablelands was abolished—with effect at the 2009 state election—by a redistribution undertaken by the Electoral Commission of Queensland. Its former territory and voters were split between the districts of Cook, Hinchinbrook and the new seat of Dalrymple. There was also an earlier district called Tablelands based in the same region, it existed from 1950 to 1972. Electoral district of Tablelands Tablelands was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Prior to its abolition, it encompassed towns on the Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns, including Mareeba, Atherton, Ravenshoe, Chillagoe and Mount Molloy."
"Electoral district of Tablelands Tablelands was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Prior to its abolition, it encompassed towns on the Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns, including Mareeba, Atherton, Ravenshoe, Chillagoe and Mount Molloy. The seat was won by the One Nation Party from the National Party at the 1998 state election. Shaun Nelson, the elected candidate, departed the party and contested the 2001 election as an Independent, losing to One Nation's new candidate Rosa Lee Long. Lee Long retained the seat at the 2004 state election and again at the 2006 state"
"aboriginal meeting place where ochre paintings could be seen, though these have been damaged by vandalism. A 2007 survey of the area found four rock shelters with paintings and several other sites. Kings Tableland, New South Wales Kings Tableland is a ridge in the state of New South Wales, Australia in the Wollondilly Shire. It extends southwards from Wentworth Falls and is the eastern boundary of the Jamison Valley. At the southern end is McMahon's Lookout, with views over Lake Burragorang. There are also views from several points along the ridge, accessed via paths breaking off the main fire trail."
"Hampton Tableland Hampton Tableland is a feature that is found at the northern side of the current alignment of the Eyre Highway between Madura and Eucla in Western Australia, at the southern edge of the Nullarbor Plain. Earlier trans-Nullarbor tracks were located along different routes from the current highway. The tableland has a number of caves occurring on it, some with notable features. Despite popular conceptions of the Nullarbor being denuded of vegetation or desert-like, a wide range of flora and fauna are well recorded. The tableland escarpment is a feature along the Eyre Highway, which sits on the edge"
"Kings Tableland The Kings Tableland is a plateau, located in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The Tableland is an eroded remnant of a sandstone layer that is approximately AMSL, situated immediately south of Wentworth Falls. The Tableland is the major southerly spur of the main spine of the Blue Mountains Range and forms the beginning of the Southern Escarpment, an unbroken series of tall sandstone cliffs which fringes the Jamison, Megalong, Kanimbla and Hartley Valleys. Situated to the west of the locality of Blue Labyrinth, Kings Tableland extends from Bodington Hill south to McMahons Lookout and further"
"Southern Tablelands The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of New South Wales, Australia, located south-west of Sydney and west of the Great Dividing Range. The area is characterised by high, flat country which has generally been extensively cleared and used for grazing purposes. The area is easily accessible to the Australian federal capital city of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The area is included with the Southern Highlands and parts of the South West Slopes in the district that is known as Capital Country. In a wider sense the Southern Tablelands also includes the Monaro, the Southern Highlands"
"the Barkly Tableland region and to the north the Darwin Region and Arnhem Land. There are 5 major river systems within the Katherine Region, the Katherine, the Flora, the upper Daly, the Roper and the Victoria River. The Katherine Region is the major cattle producer of the Northern Territory. The region consists of 3 shire zones, Katherine Municipality, The Victoria/Daly and the Roper/Gulf Shires. Ecosystems of the region are diverse, from dry, open savanna woodland to tropical riverine ecosystems. Terrain includes plains and gentle slopes through to rugged sandstone escarpments, buttes, outcrops and flat-topped mesas. The climate of the region"