The Ord River is a 651-kilometre long (405 mi) river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The river's catchment covers 55,100 square kilometres...
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up Ord or ord in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ord or ORD may refer to: Ord of Caithness, landform in north-east Scotland Ord, Nebraska, USA Ord, Northumberland...
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Kununurra, Western Australia (redirect from Ord River Project)
water, conserved by the Ord River Diversion dam and the main Ord River Dam. The tropical agriculture crops grown in the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA)...
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Lake Argyle (redirect from Ord River Dam)
freshwater man-made reservoir by volume. The reservoir is part of the Ord River Irrigation Scheme and is located near the East Kimberley town of Kununurra...
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of Halls Creek, the 240-metre-long (0.15 mi) Jarlalu Bridge over the Ord River was constructed to replace a single-lane floodway, and was opened in January...
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Ord rivers and the King Leopold Ranges (now the Wunaamin-Miliwundi Ranges), and located well watered pastoral lands along the Fitzroy and Ord rivers....
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vary based on range; lizards west of the Ord River have red-coloured frills, those living between the river and the Carpentarian Gap have orange frills...
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offshore islets. Rivers in the ecoregion include the Fitzroy, May, Drysdale, Durack, Ord, Victoria, Katherine, Flora and Daly. Rivers and streams often...
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Sir Harry St. George Ord GCMG CB (17 June 1819 – 20 August 1885) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Bermuda between 1861 and...
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Fort Ord is a former United States Army post on Monterey Bay on the Pacific Ocean coast in California, which closed in 1994 due to Base Realignment and...
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ecoregion, known as the Ord Victoria Plain, is drained by the upper Ord and Victoria rivers. The ecoregion encompasses the Ord Victoria Plain and Sturt...
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The Ord Irrigation Area Important Bird Area is an area of land used for irrigated agriculture along the Ord River in the vicinity of the town of Kununurra...
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The Ord River floodplain is the floodplain of the lower Ord River in the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley, in the Kimberley region of northern Western...
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the Victoria River district and the Ord River region. The Gordon brothers and Nathaniel Buchanan took up Wave Hill on the Victoria River in 1883, one...
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artist. She was born on Old Texas Station, on the western bank of the Ord River in the East Kimberley. McKenzie's mother was Malngin and Gurundji and...
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are a large group of islands in Lake Argyle, created by the Ord River Dam on the Ord River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. There are nearly...
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Water security in Australia (section Ord River Scheme)
snowfalls have undermined that security in the early 21st century. The Ord River Irrigation Scheme (ORIS) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia...
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generally shallow soils, the only development has taken place along the Ord River. Snow is rare in the state and typically occurs only in the Stirling Range...
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UIKB Bodaybo Airport Bodaybo, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia ODR YORV Ord River Airport Ord River, Western Australia, Australia ODS UKOO Odesa International Airport...
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Nullagine YNUL NLL Nullagine Airport Onslow YOLW ONS Onslow Airport Ord River YORV ODR Ord River Airport Paraburdoo YPBO PBO Paraburdoo Airport Pardoo Station...
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Bow River is a 148-kilometre (92 mi) long tributary of the Ord River in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. The river was named by pastoralist...
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population growth and economic development, including the expansion of the Ord River Scheme and the development of the iron ore mining industry in the Pilbara...
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in ventures into attempting rice cultivation have occurred in both the Ord River area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and the Humpty Doo...
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Ord River Hydro Power Station is a hydroelectric power station operated by Pacific Blue. It is located on the Ord River in Western Australia. It has four...
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Neoarius midgleyi (redirect from Ord River catfish)
Lake Argyle catfish, Lake Argyle silver cobbler, Midgley's catfish, Ord River catfish, shovel-nosed catfish, or shovelhead catfish, is a species of...
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volume The possible volume within the reservoir after it first opens. Many rivers are high in silt that over time deposits behind a dam reducing capacity...
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Ivanhoe Station (category Ord River)
of 2,954 square kilometres (1,141 sq mi) and follows the bank of the Ord River as it flows from Lake Argyle to Cambridge Gulf over a distance of 35 kilometres...
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from Wiradjuri, meaning "big water" Ord River: named for Harry Ord, Governor of Western Australia 1877–1880 River Torrens: named for Colonel Robert Torrens...
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continues north-west crossing the Victoria Highway and discharging into the Ord River west of Kununurra. There are five tributaries of the Dunham; Cabbage Tree...
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(30,988,750 acres). The bioregion draws its name from the Ord River and the Victoria River. This is an area of large plains of dry grassland lying between...
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