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    Goyder's Line is a line that runs roughly east–west across South Australia and, in effect, joins places with an average annual rainfall of 10 inches (250 mm)...
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    General of South Australia in 1861. He is remembered today for Goyder's Line of rainfall, a line used in South Australia to demarcate land climatically suitable...
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    The Grapes of Wrath." 1936 North American heat wave Desertification Goyder's Line – semiarid area of Australia Global warming List of environmental disasters...
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  • locality Regional Council of Goyder Hundred of Goyder (South Australia) a cadastral division Electoral district of Goyder Goyder's Line, a boundary delineating...
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    agriculture in the state of South Australia is whether the land is within Goyder's Line. Agriculture in Australia has a lively history. Aboriginal Australians...
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    late 1870s the push to open agricultural land for wheat north of the Goyder's Line had met with unusual success, with good rainfall and crops in the Flinders...
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    diminishes northward into the interior, becoming increasingly arid. Goyder's Line, which demarcates the edge of the area where rainfall is generally sufficient...
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    rainfall annually. The isopleth of the wheatbelt corresponds to the Goyder's line in South Australia, with Orroroo and Minnipa being on the boundary....
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    decided to try farming, something never before attempted so far north. Goyder's Line had proven rather accurate with regard to agricultural expansion in...
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    2019 to −1.7 °C (28.9 °F) on 15 July 1968. Kimba is located north of Goyder's Line, where precipitation is less than the total potential evapotranspiration...
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    The electorate was named after George Goyder, a former state Surveyor-General famous for developing Goyder's Line, which indicated the area of the state...
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    areas on the Great Plains of the United States and Prairies of Canada) Goyder's Line (a boundary marking the limit of semi-arid climates in the Australian...
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    southern New South Wales. Goyder Highway is named after George Goyder, a government surveyor who first identified and mapped Goyder's Line which indicates the...
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    William R. Randell Lock and Weir (Lock No. 1) Blanchetown is north of Goyder's Line, and so the land around it is unsuitable for farming unless it is irrigated...
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    extends from the ocean through the fertile Mount Lofty Ranges across Goyder's Line to the arid Flinders Ranges, with many different bioregions. The trail...
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    particularly the mining of copper. Goyder is named after former Surveyor General George Goyder who mapped Goyder's Line of rainfall in South Australia in...
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    by mallee scrub, and is situated in a grassland location, north of Goyder's Line. Due to its geographical location, summers are a few degrees hotter...
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    proposed job opportunities in the region. Crystal Brook is situated on Goyder's Line near the border of two climate systems. The township of Crystal Brook...
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    been abandoned. Orroroo is situated near Goyder's Line, a line drawn up in 1865 by Surveyor General Goyder which he believed indicated the edge of the...
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    level. The arid north is delineated from the more fertile southeast by Goyder's Line, first surveyed in the 1860s, and which has proven to be a remarkably...
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    Burra is located within the Hundred of Kooringa a few kilometres inside Goyder's Line, near Burra, Baldina and Gum creeks. The lies within the Temperate Grassland...
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    north of Goyder's Line, which is the limit of 250 millimetres (9.8 inches) annual rainfall) were built to narrow gauge. The first narrow gauge line ran from...
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    moderately hot, dry summers and cool, wetter winters. The town is above Goyder's Line, and is surrounded by mallee scrub. It is located 8 km (5.0 mi) inland...
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    driver in the area has been cereal cropping, despite the proximity to Goyder's Line, which traditionally marks the geographic edges of agricultural viability...
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  • south-east of Jamestown, Hallett lies close to Goyder's Line, plotted in the nineteenth century by George Goyder, separating the land suitable for cropping...
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    Moonta railway station Moonta exists in a semi-arid location, above Goyder's Line. Moonta is surrounded by mallee scrub. The centre is located four kilometres...
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    precipitation days. The climate is evident by its location, north of Goyder's Line and surrounded by mallee scrub. Berri is also near Renmark, South Australia...
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    government permitted settlers to go into the semi-arid lands north of Goyder's Line Cradock was established in 1879 on a 'grassy flat' of 'strong red loam'...
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    Knife. ISBN 9780975783535. History Trust of South Australia – Map of Goyder's Line Archived 27 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine "Penong Pixar group busy...
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