of Australia. Formed by the confluence of the Waterhouse River and Roper Creek, the Roper River rises east of Mataranka in the Elsey National Park and flows...
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Australian Kriol (redirect from Roper River Creole)
Australian Kriol also known as Roper River Kriol, Fitzroy Valley Kriol, Northern Australian Creole or Aboriginal English is an English-based creole language...
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Roper is a craftsman who makes ropes; a ropemaker. It may also refer to: Roper, North Carolina, USA Roper River, Northern Territory, Australia Roper (surname)...
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Ngukurr (redirect from Roper River Mission)
pronunciation: [ŋʊkur]), formerly Roper River Mission (1908−1968), is a remote Aboriginal community on the banks of the Roper River in southern Arnhem Land, Northern...
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superciliaris" from the Roper is probably either a case of mistaken locality or a hoax. "Drymodes superciliaris colcloughi – Roper River Scrub-robin". SPRAT...
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Djambu Barra Barra (section Roper River artists)
Ngukurr (a community located in south-eastern Arnhem Land along the Roper River) around 1987. As a young man, he learned important ceremonies and how...
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The Wilton River is a large perennial river, and tributary of the Roper River located in the Katherine region of the Northern Territory, Australia. It...
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explore the Roper River was Ludwig Leichhardt in 1845 as he made his way from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. Leichhardt crossed the river at Roper Bar, a rocky...
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during the Holocene epoch. These figures exclude dubious taxa like the Roper River scrub robin (Drymodes superciliaris colcloughi) and possibly extinct...
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are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. The town is located near Roper River and Mataranka Hot Springs. This area is the setting for Jeannie Gunn's...
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This fish thrives in the Daly River, Moyle River, Roper River, Anson Bay, Mary River, and South and East Alligator River. Blue-water fishing is also available...
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Ngukurr, Northern Territory, a remote aboriginal community, Ngukurr on the Roper River in Arnhem Land. A six-piece guitar inspired rock band, they play a mix...
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the Augustus Charles Gregory expedition from Victoria River to Queensland via the Roper River. The lease was taken up by Abraham Wallace in 1879, and...
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Carpentaria, and Roper Bar, where they effected a crossing, were named by Leichhardt in his honor. The famous Elsey Station lies on the Roper River. He died of...
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made a recording in Borroloola of Jemima Wimalu, a Mara woman from the Roper River, proficiently playing the didgeridoo. In 1995, musicologist Steve Knopoff...
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National Park. Walter Baldwin Spencer - Crossing Salt Creek near the Roper River, July 1911 Mataranka Thermal Springs. Protected areas of the Northern...
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Margaret Roper (née More; 1505–1544) was an English writer and translator. Roper, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, is considered to have been one...
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overlanded to the Northern Territory, for the men working on the line at Roper River, by Ralph and John Milner. Near Wauchope Creek 900 sheep died after eating...
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pastoral empire from the Roper River north into Arnhem Land. Purchasing all stocked and viable stations along the western Roper River, they began moving cattle...
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The Night Manager (British TV series) (redirect from Richard Roper)
Richard Roper. Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine, a former military officer tasked by Angela Burr with bringing down arms dealer Richard Roper. Hugh Laurie...
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Ayaiga was of the Alawa language group in the Roper River region. He worked as a police tracker at Roper Bar Police Station and as a stockman at Nutwood...
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and estimates range from 1916 to 1933. She was born and raised at the Roper River Mission, now the Ngukurr community, an Anglican mission in Southern Arnhem...
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languages, and a number of creole languages including Trinidadian creole, Roper River Kriol, Bislama and Tok Pisin. Apart from the originators Anna Wierzbicka...
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The couple lived at Urapanga Station, an Aboriginal outstation on the Roper River about 483 kilometres (300 mi) south of Darwin. Over the next several...
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creolised forming Australian Kriol in the Northern Territory at the Roper River Mission in Ngukurr, where missionaries provided a safe place for Indigenous...
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and was one of the first group of Aboriginal people to arrive at the Roper River Mission (now Ngukurr). Aboriginal people sought refuge at the mission...
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It is on the Roper River in the bounded rural locality of Wilton, Northern Territory. The main towns of the Hundred are Urapunga and Roper Bar. The Hundred...
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series of river systems in the Territory. These rivers include: the Alligator Rivers, Daly River, Finke River, McArthur River, Roper River, Todd River and Victoria...
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European to see the Hundred was Ludwig Leichhardt who crossed the Roper River at the Roper Bar in 1845, and in 1855 Augustus Charles Gregory passed to the...
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Miner Spencer. Roper was observed driving his steam carriage around Boston in 1863. One such 1863 carriage went to the Henry Ford Museum. Roper invented the...
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