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Burra, South Australia Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia. It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek (South Australia), Burra Creek. The t ...

, a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia ** District Council of Burra (1872–1935) ** District Council of Burra Burra (1935–1997) ** Corporate Town of Burra (1876–1969) ** Electoral district of The Burra (1857–1875) **

Electoral district of Burra Burra was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1875 to 1902, and again from 1938 to 1970. After a boundary redistribution in 1902, it was replaced by Electoral district of Burra Burra. ...

(1875–1902), (1938–1970) ** Electoral district of Burra Burra *

Burra, Shetland Burra (Old Norse: ''Barrey'') is the collective name for two of the Shetland Islands, West (pop. 753) and East Burra (pop. 66), which are connected by bridge to one another, and to the Shetland Mainland via Trondra. In addition, Burra w ...

, the collective name for two of the Shetland Islands ** West Burra ** East Burra *

Burra, New South Wales Burra is an Australian locality of rural smallholdings lying 20 kilometres to the south of Queanbeyan, New South Wales in the Queanbeyan-Palerang Region. At the , Burra had a population of 790 people. History The Ngarigo people originally inha ...

, a locality located near Canberra, Australia * Burra Parish (Murray County), a land administrative division, essentially identical with the above locality * Burra Parish (Kennedy County), a land administrative division in central western New South Wales *

Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee) The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra Burra Mine is located in the Copper Basin geological region, and extracted over 15 mill ...

, named after the South Australian mine

People

* Djambu "Sambo" Burra Burra (1946–2005), noted Aboriginal Australian artist living at

Ngukurr Ngukurr ( , ), formerly Roper River Mission (1908−1968), is a remote Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal community on the banks of the Roper River in southern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. A number of different clans and language groups are ...

, Northern Territory *

Edward Burra Edward John Burra CBE (29 March 1905 – 22 October 1976) was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, Black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s. Biography Early life Burra ...

(1905–1976), an English painter * John Burra (born 1956), a Tanzanian long-distance runner *

Peter Burra Peter Burra (1909 – 27 April 1937) was a British writer and critic, the author of "The Novels of E. M. Forster". Early life Peter Burra and his twin sister Nella Burra were close friend with Peter Pears; Burra and Pears went to school togeth ...

(1909–1937), British literary critic

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Burra Charter The Burra Charter is a document published by the Australian ICOMOS which defines the basic principles and procedures to be followed in the conservation of Australian heritage places. The Charter was first endorsed in 1979 as an Australian adaptat ...

, a charter relating to conservation of Australian heritage places *Burra, a common name of the Australian plant ''

Eremophila fraseri ''Eremophila fraseri'', commonly known as burra or jilarnu, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with all above-ground parts of the plant, apart from the pe ...

'' *Burra or Burra Leiteira, a common name of the neotropical plant ''

Sapium scleratum ''Sapium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the O ...

'' in genus ''

Sapium ''Sapium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the O ...

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