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Mandandanji
The Mandandanyi are an Aboriginal Australian people of Queensland. Country The Mandandanji occupied of tribal territory, which took in the Maranoa and Balonne rivers north of St. George. Their western extension reached as far Bollon and Wallam Creek. Their northern frontier was around Donnybrook, Orallo and Yuleba. Their eastern flank was formed by Alton and Glenmorgan. Mitchell, Roma and Surat Surat (Gujarati Language, Gujarati: ) is a city in the western Indian States and territories of India, state of Gujarat. The word Surat directly translates to ''face'' in Urdu, Gujarati language, Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of t ... all lay within Mandandanji territory. Social organisation The Mandandanji were divided into groups. * The ''Kogai'', a northerly group, lived around the headwaters of Coogoon Creek. Language History of contact The Mandandanji put up considerable resistance to white colonial encroachments on their land. They were led by a lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roma, Queensland
Roma is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time. In the , the locality of Roma had a population of 6,838 people. Geography Roma is in the Maranoa, Queensland, Maranoa district of South West Queensland. It is situated at the junction of the Warrego Highway, Warrego and Carnarvon Highway, Carnarvon highways. It is also a major town on the Western railway line, Queensland, Western Railway Line from Toowoomba and Brisbane. It is the centre of a rich pastoral and wheat-growing district. History Mandandanji Prior to British colonisation, the Aboriginal peoples of the Mandandanji Nation occupied this region. Mandandanji language, Mandandanji (also known as Mandandanyi, Mandandanjdji, Kogai) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surat, Queensland
Surat is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Surat had a population of 402 people. Geography The town of Surat is on the Balonne River, approximately south of Roma on the Carnarvon Highway in South West Queensland. It is west of Brisbane. There are oil fields further south. History Mandandanji Mandandanji (also known as Mandandanyi, Mandandanjdji, Kogai) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Mandandanji people. The Mandandanji language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Maranoa Regional Council, particularly Roma, Yuleba and Surat, then east towards Chinchilla and south-west towards Mitchell and St George. British colonisation The first documented British exploration of the area was the expedition led by New South Wales Surveyor-General Sir Thomas Mitchell in 1846. Pastoralist squatters soon followed in 1848 with Joseph Fleming establishing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell, Queensland
Mitchell is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. The town services the local area, a cattle and sheep farming district. In the , the locality of Mitchell had a population of 995 people. Geography Mitchell is on the Warrego Highway, west of Brisbane, west of Toowoomba, west of Miles, west of Roma and east of Charleville. The Warrego Highway passes through town to form the main street, Cambridge Street. The Maranoa River flows around the northern and eastern sides of the town before eventually flowing into the Balonne River. The Western railway passes through the locality, entering from the east ( Amby / Walhallow) and exiting to the west ( Womalilla). The locality is served by a number of railway stations, from west to east: * Mitchell railway station, a passenger stop in the town () * Booringa railway siding, now dismantled () * Marbango railway station, now abandoned () Mitchell Airstrip is west of the town (). Its IATA ai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuleba
Yuleba ( ) is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Maranoa Region, in the south-west of Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Yuleba had a population of 271 people. Geography Yuleba is located east of Charleville, Queensland, Charleville, east of Roma, Queensland, Roma, west of Toowoomba, west of Miles, Queensland, Miles, west of the state capital, Brisbane along the Warrego Highway. Indigenous People Mandandanji language, Mandandanji (also known as Mandandanyi, Mandandanjdji, Kogai) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Mandandanji people. The Mandandanji language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Maranoa Regional Council, particularly Roma, Queensland, Roma, Yuleba and Surat, Queensland, Surat, then east towards Chinchilla, Queensland, Chinchilla and south-west towards Mitchell, Queensland, Mitchell and St George, Queensland, St George. The town is said to be named after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunggari
The Gunggari ( /ˈgʊŋgəri/ ) are an Aboriginal Australian tribe of southern Queensland. The traditional land of the Gunggari centres on the Maranoa River and overlaps with the land of the surrounding Mandandanji, Kooma, Kunja, Margany, Dharawala, Bidjara and Nguri peoples. They are to be distinguished from the Kuungkari, who also border Dharawala country. Language The Gunggari language is a member of the Maric language family. It is closely related to, and sometimes considered a dialect of, neighbouring Bidjara and Manandanji languages. As of 2021 there are only three native speakers. Since 2013 the language has been taught in St Patrick's school, Mitchell, and is being actively revived. History The Gunggari people were first contacted by Europeans in 1846 when Commissioner of Crown Lands, Roderick Mitchell, and his father, surveyor Thomas Mitchell, were on an expedition through the Maranoa Region. The following year, Ludwig Leichhardt also made contact. In 1854 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maranoa River
The Maranoa River, part of the Murray-Darling basin, is a river situated in South West Queensland, Australia. Course and features Formed by the confluence of the west and east branches of the river, the Maranoa River rises on the Consuelo Tableland in the Carnarvon National Park. The valleys in the river's catchment area are broad rather than gorge-like as in the nearby Carnarvon Gorge, with isolated bluffs and pillars of sandstone on sandy plains. The Maranoa passes through Mitchell and flows south towards St George. The river reaches its confluence with the Balonne River north of St George. The Balonne eventually flows into the Darling River (via a few branches), so it contributes to the Murray-Darling Basin. From source to mouth, the Maranoa is joined by 31 tributaries including the Merivale River and descends over its course. The Warrego Highway crosses the river at Mitchell. History The river's name was recorded by explorer Thomas Mitchell on 13 May 1846 in his ''J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balonne River
The Balonne River, part of the Murray-Darling Basin system, is a short yet significant part of the inland river group of South West Queensland, Australia. Course and features The river is a continuation of the Condamine River. After flowing through Surat the river flows south south-westerly down through the E.J. Beardmore Dam (Lake Kajarabie). Passing through St George it continues in the same south-west direction, until about north of Dirranbandi, where it branches, with the western branch then being called the Culgoa River. The eastern branch continues on as the Balonne River through Dirranbandi. Shortly after flowing through Dirranbandi, the Balonne River again branches into the Bokhara River on the west side (the right side when going down stream) and the Narran River on the eastern (left) side. The Narran River flows into Narran Wetlands. The Bokhara River joins with the Barwon River west of Brewarrina. The confluence of the Culgoa River (a western branch of the Balon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St George, Queensland
St George is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre for the Shire of Balonne. In the , the locality of St George had a population of 3,130 people. History Aboriginal people The present township of St George was founded on the boundaries of three Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal groups, the Mandandanji to the north, the Kooma to the south-west and the Bigambul to the south-east. These people of the Balonne River fished with hoop nets and hunted ducks and marsupials for meat. They supplemented their diet with the small native melons that grew in abundance in the area, and with yams dug out from the flats along the riverbanks. Their funeral rites consisted of constructing an elevated bark platform on which the deceased would be placed, with fires lit underneath to smoke and preserve the corpse. The mummified remains would then be wrapped in bark and possum cloaks and carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollon, Queensland
Bollon is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Balonne, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bollon had a population of 174 people. Geography Bollon is in South West Queensland, west of the state capital, Brisbane. Bollon is situated on the Balonne Highway, between St George and Cunnamulla on the banks of Wallam Creek. A stand of River red gums along the creek is home to a large colony of koalas. Climate History Gunya (Kunya, Kunja, Kurnja) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Gunya people. The Gunya language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Paroo Shire Council, taking in Cunnamulla and extending north towards Augathella, east towards Bollon and west towards Thargomindah. The town is thought to be named after the Mandandanji language word ''balun'' or ''balonn'' meaning ''water'' or a ''running stream''. On 26 June 1879 the Queensland Government auctioned 40 town lots and 12 suburban lots in Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australian
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. Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, and over time formed as many as 500 language-based groups. In the past, Aboriginal people lived over large sections of the continental shelf. They were isolated on many of the smaller offshore islands and Tasmania when the land was inundated at the start of the Holocene inter-glacial period, about 11,700 years ago. Despite this, Aboriginal people maintained extensive networks within the continent and certain groups maintained relationships with Torres Strait Islanders and the Makassar people of modern-day Indonesia. Over the millennia, Aboriginal people developed complex trade networks, inter-cultural relationships, law and religions, which make up some of the oldest, and possibly ''the'' oldest, continuous cultures in the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moleskin
Moleskin is a heavy cotton fabric, woven and then shorn to create a short, soft pile on one side. The feel and appearance of its nap is suede-like, less plush than velour and more like felt or chamois. The word is also used for clothing made from this fabric. Clothing made from moleskin is noted for its softness and durability. Some variants of the cloth are so densely woven as to be windproof. Its name is due to the soft brushed hand of the fabric, similar to mole fur. Though mole pelts have been used to make fur clothing, they are not referred to as "moleskin". Moleskin is also a term for soft, dense adhesive pads stuck to the skin to prevent blisters. Structure Moleskin is woven of carded cotton yarn in a dense weft-faced satin weave. The surface is napped or shorn to "produce a suede-like finish". Uses Moleskin fabric is commonly used to make trousers, also referred to as "moleskins", that are similar to jeans in terms of cut and construction. They similarly started a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coryphaeus
In Classical Athens, Attic Theatre of ancient Greece , drama, the coryphaeus, corypheus, or koryphaios (Greek language, Greek κορυφαῖος ''koryphaîos'', from κορυφή ''koryphḗ́'', the top of the head) was the leader of the Greek chorus, chorus. Hence the term (sometimes in an Anglicized form "coryphe") is used for the chief or leader of any company or movement. The original Greek coryphaeus spoke for all the chorus, whenever the chorus took part in the action, in quality of a person of the drama, during the course of the acts. The term is sometimes used for the chief or principal of any company, corporation, sect, opinion, etc. Thus, Eustathius of Antioch is called the coryphaeus of the First Council of Nicaea of 325 CE, and Cicero calls Zeno of Citium, Zeno ( 334 – 262 BCE) the coryphaeus of the Stoicism, Stoics. Paul the Apostle is often entitled "Coryphaeus" in Christian iconography. In 1856 the University of Oxford established the office of Coryphaeus or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
