Darling Downs – Wikipedia
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The Darling Downs is an agricultural region at the western foothills of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The area is located west of the South East Queensland region and is one of the eleven regions of Queensland.
The area was named after the governor Ralph Darling by an early explorer of Australia. [2]
Various types of vegetables, beans, cotton, wheat, barley and crew of care are planted on the hills of the Darling Downs. Long -laid roads, bushes, meandering rivers and herds of cattle extend between the farm country. In this landscape there are farms with herds of meat cattle and milk cows, pigs, sheep and lambs. Other typical landscapes are shaped by irrigation systems, windmills, pumping and water from the Great Artesian Basin, light aircraft that sprayed light aircraft, old sheep shearers and other isolated relics of the past era of the early days of European discovery and settlement.
The largest city and the commercial center of the Darling Downs is toowoomba [3] , about 132 km west of Brisbane.
Other cities in the downs are Dalby, Warwick, Roma, Oakey, Mitchell, Pittsworth, Allora, Clifton, Cecil Plains, Drayton, Millerran, Nobby and Chinchilla in the West.
The Darling Downs are the drainage system from Condamine River and Maranoa River as well as their tributaries. The Bunya Mountains and the Bunya Mountains National Park are located on the northern border of the Downs. The region that is located in the north is South Burnett and Maranoa in the west. An area of the western downs is located in the Suratbecken, an area of Australian coal mining. The mountains of the Scenic Rim rise further towards the coast, in which the sources of the Condamine River flowing westward are located.
Southern Downs [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Parts of the Darling Downs, in which the cities of Allora, Clifton, Warwick, Killarney and the rock area in the south, the granite Belt are Southern Downs designated. The Southern Downs are classified as an interim biogeographic regionalization for Australia. The term is also used to definition the political limits and for tourist advertising. The Dumaresq River and the Macintyre River are located in the region.
The Darling Downs were originally overgrown with local sweet grasses, which are an ideal source of food for herds of cattle for eight months. The Aborigines from the Darling Downs used to burn the grass once a year when it wore seeds and was dry. The annual burning gave the local Aborigines the name gonnee or Fire Blacks – goonnee is the name for fire and men An original name of the Aboriginal tribes there. The indigenous tribes that also as Coast Blacks were known, lived in the Moreton Bay area. Murri is a word that denotes the tribes of the Kamabroi. The Downs strains spoke a common dialect that Waccah was named and therefore they were all they surrounded as the Wacca-Burra known. The Goonnee-burra used to be located where Warwick is today.
Cunninghams Gap and the Darling Downs were first discovered by Allan Cunningham and Charles Frazer in 1827. [3] Cunningham came to the area in 1828 to find a way to the coast, which was not yet possible when Australia was still a criminal colony. Cunningham climbed the tip of Mount Dumaresq, close to today’s Maryvale, and then wrote into his diary that the area lavishly overgrown with grass is ideal for settlement. Allan Cunningham chose the name of the governor Darling for the original Darling Downs. The area at that time extended 100 miles as far as the eye from Mount Dumaresq looked. Ludwig Leichhardt saw the remnants of the camp with traces of white men on the ridge and steel lyrics in 1844.
The news about the fertile landscape spread quickly. Immigration developed and the government of the distant colony of New South Wales found no way to contain them. [4] Patrick Leslie was the first European to settle Darling Downs in 1840 and was owned by the Condamine River in 1846. Glengallan Homestead, Talgai Homestead, Pringle Cottage and Rosenthal Homestead were other fortified residences that were created on the southern Downs. In 1854, Charles Douglas EastaGhffe settled in this area. The Spicers Gap Road the area opened for further settlement in the 1850s. Later, the Queensland Rail and the transport company Cobb & Co enabled the further development of the region. Gold was found there at that time, but agricultural activity opened the boom in this area.
The Schafscherer strike (1891), which was significant for the political workers’ movement, began in the Jondaryan breeding station.
A serious drought in the Darling Downs was created in 1994/1995 when the Condamine River dried up. [5]
The New England Highway, Gore Highway and Warrego Highway cross the region. Water is dammed up in the Leslie dam, Storm-King-Damtamm and Glenlyon dam. The Lake Broadwater is the only natural lake.
The queensland gas and oil pipeline and that from Roma to Brisbane, Australia’s first Naturgas pipeline, cross the region from west to east. There are several coal mines and several coal power plants in the downs: the Millerran power plant, Oakey power plant, Darling-Downs power plant and Kogan Creek power plant.
Before the European settlement, many areas were in the Darling Downs rampant wilderness, for example about the My my Creek . Rich swampy wetlands housed many animal species that no longer live in the Darling Downs. The Darling-Downs-Hüpfmaus and paradise paradise died out after the European livestock economy began.
The dingo fence begins Jimbour and crosses the country to the Great Australian Bight.
The region is popular with tourists because it contains numerous natural and historical attractions, including the Goomburray State Forest, Cunninghams Gap, Spicers Gap and the Queen Mary Falls at Killarney in the Main-Range National Park.
The city of Jandowae achieved celebrity by offering land for Aud 1. She wanted to lure residents for her city, which counted fewer than 1000 inhabitants in 2001.
The Cobb & Co Museum in Toowoomba shows horse -drawn trails and material from the history of the Darling Downs. There is also a small zoo that Darling Downs Zoo at Clifton.
The region has significant sites of megafaunafossils that have not yet been archaeologically recorded. [6] These extensive finds gave weight that people were not the cause of the extinction of the megauna. [7]
Steele Rudd (Arthur Davis) wrote a comic series about country life. The first book On Our Selection (1899) describes the life of father, mother and Dave Rudd on the Snake Gully. The Rudds had four (or six) acres on a shaft trail in the Darling Downs. They also occurred in film and radios series.
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics: Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2009–10. March 31, 2011, accessed on June 8, 2012 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
- ↑ Naming the Highways ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in Internet Archive ) – Cunningham Highway No. 17. p. 2. Retrieved on August 20, 2007.
- ↑ a b Darling Downs. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved on November 6, 2010 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
- ↑ Raymond Evans: A History of Queensland . Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, Victoria 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87692-6, S. 51–52 .
- ↑ Collie, Gordon. Water crisis threatens towns. The Courier Mail. P. 3, from June 3, 1995.
- ↑ Australia’s fossil past. (No longer available online) archived from Original am July 20, 2008 ; accessed on June 23, 2008 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
- ↑ Study clears humans over megafauna extinction. (No longer available online.) In: ABC News. May 30, 2005, archived from Original am 25. June 2005 ; accessed on June 24, 2008 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
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