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    In Australian English, a billabong (/ˈbɪləbɒŋ/ BIL-ə-bong) is a small body of water, usually permanent. It is usually an oxbow lake, caused by a change...
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  • Billabong International Limited is an Australian company focused on surfing, primarily a clothing retailer that also produces accessories, such as watches...
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  • up billabong in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billabong is an Australian English word for a small lake, specifically an oxbow lake. Billabong may...
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    of New South Wales, Australia. At 320 kilometres (200 mi) (with some estimates ranging up to 596 kilometres (370 mi)), Billabong Creek is believed to...
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    oldest surfer still active on the World Surf League, winning his 8th Billabong Pipeline Masters title at age 49. Of Syrian-Irish descent, Slater grew...
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    census, Little Billabong had a population of 466 people. Little Billabong Post Office opened on 1 October 1874 and closed in 1953. Australian Bureau of Statistics...
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    Anbangbang Billabong lies in the shadow of Burrunggui (Nourlangie Rock) within Kakadu National Park and is a good place to view a wide range of wildlife...
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    Sally Fitzgibbons (category Olympic surfers for Australia)
    Surf, Margaret River, Western Australia, Australia • 3rd ASP Rip Curl Women's Pro, Bells Beach, Australia • 1st ASP Billabong Pro Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
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  • Brooke Evers (category Use Australian English from August 2014)
    international model, Brooke has worked with major brands such as Billabong Australia, Mrs Palmers Surf and Quiksilver Worldwide. In 2010, Evers was the...
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  • Surfboards to become world champion. Rusty Australia was then renamed to just Rusty in 2006. In 2014, Rusty and Billabong teamed up to make a line of surfboards...
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    Bunyip (category Use Australian English from July 2011)
    creature from the aboriginal mythology of southeastern Australia, said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes. The origin of the...
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  • rights to the up-and-coming Australian surf brand Billabong, and formed Billabong USA in 1983. Founding partners in Billabong USA besides Hurley were Bob...
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  • Red Billabong is a 2016 independent Australian horror thriller film, written and directed by Luke Sparke in his feature debut. Based on an Australian legend...
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    Environment on a floodplain where deposits settle after a flood Billabong – Australian term for an oxbow lake or other waterhole Hurricane on the Bayou –...
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    International — acquired 1 May 2010 Almatis Group — acquired 2010 Billabong - Australia's largest surfwear company. Campofrío Food Group — (24%) European...
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    Auburn Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park, Calga, Central Coast Australian Reptile Park, Somersby Banana Cabana Primate Sanctuary, Dural Billabong Koala...
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  • Quiksilver (category Clothing brands of Australia)
    Roxy and DC Shoes. In 2018, Boardriders acquired Billabong International Limited, gaining the Billabong, Element, Von Zipper, RVCA and XCEL brands. Authentic...
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    and sometimes up to 7 meters (23 feet). It is the site of the annual Billabong Pro Tahiti surf competition, part of the World Championship Tour (WCT)...
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    activities that become progressively banned as the situation worsens. Billabong is the Australian name given to the oxbow lakes that can form along a meandering...
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  • The Billabong Sanctuary is an 11-hectare (27-acre) wildlife sanctuary in Nome, 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. The...
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  • Alexander Bunyip's Billabong is an Australian television series for children which screened on the ABC from 1978 to 1988. It followed the adventures of...
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    Taj Burrow (category Use Australian English from June 2011)
    the Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia. He backed this up with a victory at the 2007 Billabong Pro in Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa, where...
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    Mick Fanning (category Officers of the Order of Australia)
    Beach in 2001, winning one of Australia's leading contests. He finished 2002 as Rookie of the Year, winning the Billabong Pro at Jeffrey's Bay and earning...
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    Waltzing Matilda (category Use Australian English from August 2023)
    himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site. The original lyrics were composed in 1895 by Australian poet Banjo Paterson...
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    Observer and the Holbrook, Billabong & Upper Murray Chronicle, is a newspaper published in Henty, New South Wales, Australia. The Observer was first published...
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    Billabong Zoo is a 10-acre (4.0 ha) wildlife park and koala breeding centre located in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. It was opened in 1986...
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    ward off insects. World-famous Australian surfwear labels include Billabong, Rip Curl, Mambo and Quiksilver. Australian surfers popularised the ugg boot...
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    Jessica Green (actress) (category 21st-century Australian actresses)
    appeared as Amber in the Australian crime drama film Rise, and as Rebecca in the 2016 supernatural horror film Red Billabong. In 2018, Green landed a...
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    Monsoonal squall in Darwin. A billabong in the Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. The monsoon climate of northern Australia is hot and humid in summer...
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  • regularly to Tahiti to surf, where he competed in several installments of the Billabong Pro Teahupo'o competition, and filmed some of his most notable sports...
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