"of Assembly in the Dean Brown government. Eyre was pushed to the south ahead of the 1993 election, taking in much of the abolished seat of Stuart. Eyre was abolished in a boundary redistribution prior to the 1997 election, dividing the northern South Australian outback into two seats. The eastern half was transferred to the recreated seat of Stuart, while the western half became part of the massively expanded seat of Giles. Gunn successfully transferred to Stuart. Electoral district of Eyre (South Australia) Eyre was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia"
"Lake Eyre fills, such as 2010, most of the water comes from the west, the Channel Country of Queensland. The Finke River normally drains into the Simpson Desert to the north west of the Macumba, but in the first decade of the 20th century it is thought that the Finke flowed directly into the Macumba. It is thought that the Finke has flowed to Lake Eyre via the Macumba in 1909, 1938 and 1945. The Macumba is part of the western rivers catchment of the Lake Eyre Drainange basin along with the Peake Creek and Neales River. The western rivers"
"interior of Australia. Average annual rainfall in the area surrounding Lake Eyre is , and the pan evaporation rate . Annualised average figures are misleading: since 1885 annual rainfall over the of the Lake Eyre Basin has ranged from about in 1928 to over in 1974. Most of the water reaching Lake Eyre comes from the river systems of semi-arid inland Queensland, roughly to the north. To provide a sense of scale, the Lake Eyre Basin is about the size of France, Germany and Italy combined. It is slightly larger than the Murray-Darling basin (which drains inland eastern Australia and"
"is now called Lake Torrens. He made a third trip north in June 1840, this time reaching what is now known as Lake Eyre. A fourth trip began in February 1841, this time determined to reach Western Australia. The trek began at Fowlers Bay and reached Albany in July, a trip of 1600 km (1000 miles). Having made a tidy profit of several thousand pounds from his second overlanding trip, the young Eyre (then only twenty-three years old) turned his attention to the interior, and the speculation surrounding the possibility of an inland sea. Planning a three-month expedition to the"
"Eyre Park The Eyre Park is a park in Middleton Beach in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The park is bounded by Adelaide Crescent, Middleton Road and Garden Street. It has large open spaces, lakes, gazebos, barbeques, public toilets, children's play area and a basketball court. The park was designed by Harry Baxter of South Perth who won a competition held by the Albany Municipal Council including a £50 prize. The competition was held in 1946 and Baxter's layout for Eyre Park envisioned most of the area being occupied by an ornamental lake, with provision for"
"2011 and 2012 with waters discharging into Lake Eyre each time. The traditional owners of the area are the Arabana and Arrernte peoples, both of whom belong to the Central Australian Desert language group. The Macumba features in the Emu story, which is told in 80 verses. The Arabana word for the Macumba is ""Maka-Wimpa"" which means fire track, the Arrernte word is ""Ura-Ingka"" which also means fire track, named so as the river bed would be the path followed by bushfires in the area. John McDouall Stuart was the first european to explore the area in 1859 when he"
"Warburton River The Warburton River (or Warburton Creek) is a freshwater stream in the far north of South Australia that flows in a south westerly direction and discharges into the eastern side of Lake Eyre. It is one of the state's largest rivers, and is part of the Lake Eyre Basin. It runs along the eastern side of the Simpson Desert, and drains water from Eyre Creek, the Diamantina and Georgina rivers from Goyder Lagoon, carrying it into Lake Eyre during its infrequent floods. The river passes through a number of permanent and semi-permanent waterholes including Poothapootha waterhole, Emu Bone"
"Lake Eyre and Lake Torrens, mostly dry salt lakes. This arid area is sparsely populated, with many large cattle stations, and significant areas protected as national parks, or as Aboriginal lands. The only significant roads through these areas are the Stuart Highway north from Port Augusta to the Northern Territory, the Eyre Highway across the Nullarbor Plain to Western Australia, and the Barrier Highway east to Broken Hill in New South Wales. These highways have corresponding railways: the Trans-Australian Railway going west and east, and the Adelaide–Darwin railway going north. The coastline includes cliffs against the Great Australian Bight including"
"regularly fill Lake Eyre. However, far too little evidence exists for any certainty of this. Georgina River The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in Central West Queensland, that also flows through a portion of the Northern Territory, in central Australia. Part of the Lake Eyre basin, the Georgina flows in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre. The river is named in honour of Georgina Mildred Kennedy, the daughter of Queensland governor Arthur Kennedy. The river was originally called the Herbert River before being given its current name in 1890 to avoid"
"Elliot Price Conservation Park Elliot Price Conservation Park, formerly the Elliot Price Wilderness National Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Lake Eyre with its southern boundary being located about north west of Marree. The conservation park was established as the ""Elliot Price Wilderness National Park"" on 9 November 1967 under the ""National Parks Act 1996"". On 27 April 1972 , the national park was reconstituted as the ""Elliot Price Conservation Park"" under the ""National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972"". It occupies land on the Hunt Peninsula and on"
"early settler, Edward Eyre, from the Port Phillip area. Purportedly, the sea-like appearance of Lake Tyrrell inspired Eyre. An alternative version of the naming of Sea Lake comes from a surveyors report of the time when planning the township (which lies to the south of Lake Tyrrell). It is purported that a surveyor mistook a mark on hand drawings ""see lake"" which had been used by the author of the drawings to mark a landmark. Lake Tyrrell is the largest salt lake in Victoria, covering approximately . Much of the time, Lake Tyrrell is dry. However, the lake is occasionally"
"Lake MacDonnell Lake MacDonnell is a salt lake on western Eyre Peninsula near the Nullarbor Plain. The closest town is Penong. It is the site of a former salt mine and the largest gypsum mine in Australia, on the largest gypsum deposit in the southern hemisphere. The ore body consists of calcrete coastal dunes of the Pleistocene Bridgewater Formation in a northwest-trending depression. The gypsum formed during the Holocene period. The gypsum deposit has a one-metre layer of gypsarenite containing 93 percent gypsum calcium sulphate. Below that is a layer of selenite containing 94-96% calcium sulphate. The deposit may contain"
"lake includes ""Nodularia spumigena"" and a number of species of ""Dunaliella"". Birds such as pelicans and banded stilts are drawn to a filled lake from southern coastal regions of Australia, and from as far afield as Papua New Guinea. During the 1989–1990 flood it was estimated that 200,000 pelicans, 80% of Australia's total population, came to feed & roost at Lake Eyre. Scientists are presently unable to determine how such birds appear able to detect the filling of the lake, even when hundreds or thousands of kilometres away from the basin. The extent of the lake is covered by two"
"Eyre & Munro Eyre & Munro was an architectural partnership in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. A number of their works are now heritage-listed. Walter Morris Eyre was an architect, engineer and surveyor. He was born in 1858 and trained in England. He was immigrated to Queensland and in 1880 was appointed as the first Shire Clerk and Superintendent of Works for the Toowong Shire Council. He worked in the office of his cousin, Francis Drummond Greville Stanley, from 1881 until he was appointed City Engineer of Townsville in 1885. In 1887 he left to set up in practice as an architect"
"Wangary, Wanilla, Whites Flat, Whites River, and Yeelanna, and part of Port Lincoln. District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula is a local government area located on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. The district covers the southern tip of the peninsula, except for the small area taken up by the City of Port Lincoln. The main council offices are in Cummins, with a branch office in Port Lincoln, even though Port Lincoln is actually in its own council area, not encompassed by the council. The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula traces its history"
"Lincoln National Park Lincoln National Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about south of the municipal seat of Port Lincoln. It consists of a mainland area on the Jussieu Peninsula on the south eastern tip of Eyre Peninsula and a number of nearby islands. The national park contains significant sites of natural, indigenous and early European heritage. Lincoln National Park is located on the Jussieu Peninsula on the south-eastern tip of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia as well as an adjoining portion of Eyre"
"1863. Its name is derived from ""Mount Eyre"" which was ""the northern most point of Eyre's 1839 expedition and named by Governor Gawler on 11 July 1839."" Wallerberdina, South Australia Wallerberdina is a rural locality in the Far North region of South Australia. Yadlamalka lies between the southern tip of Lake Torrens and the Flinders Ranges within the Pastoral Unincorporated Area, 50 Kilometres north of Port Augusta. The area is an arid plain. The traditional owners of the area are the Banggarla peoples. The site of the government town of Mount Eyre is located at the south end of the"
"Kevin is the name of the station on the Eyre Peninsula Railway network established for the mines, named from the Hundred of Kevin (which in turn was named for the adopted son of Charles Cameron Kingston). It is stockpiled at Thevenard, then loaded onto ships to Glebe Island in Sydney for further processing. Lake MacDonnell Lake MacDonnell is a salt lake on western Eyre Peninsula near the Nullarbor Plain. The closest town is Penong. It is the site of a former salt mine and the largest gypsum mine in Australia, on the largest gypsum deposit in the southern hemisphere. The"
"Electoral district of Eyre Eyre was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia. It was in existence for three separate periods (1950 to 1962, 1989 to 2005, and 2008 to 2017), on each occasion covering large portions of south-eastern Western Australia. Eyre was a safe seat for the Labor Party in its first two incarnations, but during its third incarnation was a marginal seat between the Liberal Party and the National Party. Eyre was first created for the 1950 election, mostly replacing Kanowna, and abolished ahead of the 1962 election. Labor MP Emil Nulsen, the former member"
"on its south-west boundary, ‘primary production’ in its south-east corner and with the remainder of its extent being zoned as ‘water protection’ in order to manage the aquifer system existing within Uley and adjoining localities. Uley is located within the federal Division of Grey, the state electoral district of Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula. Uley, South Australia Uley is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the body of water known as the Great Australian Bight about west of"
"Flinders and the local government area of the District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula. Sleaford, South Australia Sleaford is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the Great Australian Bight about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat of Port Lincoln. The boundaries of the locality were created on October 2003 for the “long established name” which is derived from Sleaford Bay. The boundary with the locality of Tulka was altered in both 2006 and 2011. Sleaford consists of land at"
"it was named by Governor Gawler on 11 July 1839. In 1840, Eyre went on a third expedition, reaching a lake that was later named Lake Eyre, in his honor. Eyre, together with his Aboriginal companion Wylie, was the first European to traverse the coastline of the Great Australian Bight and the Nullarbor Plain by land in 1840–1841, on an almost 2000 mile trip to Albany, Western Australia. He had originally led the expedition with John Baxter and three aborigines. On 29 April 1841, two of the aborigines killed Baxter and left with most of the supplies. Eyre and Wylie"
"Port Lincoln Port Lincoln is a city on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf. It is the largest city in the West Coast region, and is located approximately 280 km as the crow flies from the State's capital city of Adelaide (646 km by road). The city is reputed to have the most millionaires per capita in Australia. The town claims to be the ""Seafood Capital of Australia"". The Eyre Peninsula has been home to Aboriginal people for over 40"
"County of Musgrave The County of Musgrave is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed on 22 June 1876 and named after Anthony Musgrave, the Governor of South Australia from 9 June 1876 to 29 January 1877. The county covers the part of the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the Great Australian Bight between Talia Beach in Anxious Bay in the north and Cape Drummond in the south, and extends inland from the coastline for a distance of about . The town"
"Lake Hindmarsh Lake Hindmarsh, an eutrophic lake located in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia, is the state’s largest natural freshwater lake. The nearest towns are Jeparit to the south and Rainbow to the north. After more than a decade of drought, in early 2011 the lake filled as a result of flooding in the region. The area around the lake is the traditional country of the Gromiluk, a branch of the Wotjobaluk people. Explorer Edward Eyre camped at Lake Hindmarsh in 1838 while searching for an overland route from Melbourne to Adelaide and named the lake after the"
"Australia. It then crosses the top of the Eyre Peninsula as it continues eastwards for , before reaching the city of Port Augusta. Eyre Highway is part of the National Highway route between Perth and Adelaide, and also forms part of Australia's Highway 1. It is signed as National Highway 1 in Western Australia, and National Highway A1 in South Australia. The vast majority of the highway is a two-lane single carriageway with a speed limit of , except in and around built-up areas. Road trains (A-double or B-triple) up to are permitted on Eyre Highway, but are limited to"
"Category VI protected area. Lincoln Conservation Park Lincoln Conservation Park (formerly Lincoln Conservation Reserve) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Tulka on land in the Section 490 in the cadastral unit of Hundred of Lincoln about south west of Port Lincoln. The conservation park was proclaimed on 7 December 2006 under the ""National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972"" for the purpose of recognising ‘its contribution to regional biodiversity conservation’. The proclamation replaced protected area status as a conservation reserve previously declared under the ""Crown Lands"
"conservation park, nor were there plans to create such access. The conservation park is classified as an IUCN Category III protected area. Verran Tanks Conservation Park Verran Tanks Conservation Park is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia, located on the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Verran about north of Port Lincoln and about south-east of Lock.. It was proclaimed under the ""National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972"" in 1983 to “conserve remnant vegetation” on land all in Section 71 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Verran and which was previously gazetted as"
"Uley, South Australia Uley is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located at the southern tip of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the body of water known as the Great Australian Bight about west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the city of Port Lincoln. The boundaries of the locality were created on 16 October 2003 for the “long established name” which is derived from the cadastral unit of the Hundred of Uley and is ultimately derived from “a village in Gloucestershire, England.” Land use within Uley consists of ‘coastal conservation’ to the coastline"
"a number of significant works, including: Eyre & Munro Eyre & Munro was an architectural partnership in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. A number of their works are now heritage-listed. Walter Morris Eyre was an architect, engineer and surveyor. He was born in 1858 and trained in England. He was immigrated to Queensland and in 1880 was appointed as the first Shire Clerk and Superintendent of Works for the Toowong Shire Council. He worked in the office of his cousin, Francis Drummond Greville Stanley, from 1881 until he was appointed City Engineer of Townsville in 1885. In 1887 he left to set"
"Lincoln Conservation Park Lincoln Conservation Park (formerly Lincoln Conservation Reserve) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Eyre Peninsula in the gazetted locality of Tulka on land in the Section 490 in the cadastral unit of Hundred of Lincoln about south west of Port Lincoln. The conservation park was proclaimed on 7 December 2006 under the ""National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972"" for the purpose of recognising ‘its contribution to regional biodiversity conservation’. The proclamation replaced protected area status as a conservation reserve previously declared under the ""Crown Lands Act 1929"" on 11"
"from the Warburton River. In late 2015, water began flowing into Lake Eyre following heavy rain in the north-east of the state. The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009. A number of trailer sailers sailed on Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre in 1975, 1976, and 1984 when the flood depth reached . In July 2010 The Yacht Club held its first regatta since 1976 and its first on Lake Killamperpunna, a freshwater lake on Cooper Creek. The Cooper had reached Kati"
"County of Bosanquet The County of Bosanquet is a cadastral unit in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land both in the north of the Eyre Peninsula and to the peninsula's north. It was proclaimed on 23 October 1913 and was named after Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, the Governor of South Australia from 1909 to 1914. The county covers land extending from the southern end of Lake Gairdner in the north-east to the southern side of the Gawler Ranges in the south-west. Most of its extent is within the Eyre Peninsula because the peninsula’s northern boundary passes through"