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The Cooper Creek (formerly Cooper's Creek) is a river in the Australian states of Queensland and South Australia. It was the site of the death of the explorers Burke and Wills in 1861. It is sometimes known as the Barcoo River from one of its tributaries and is one of three major Queensland river systems that flow into the Lake Eyre basin .
The property is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) north east of Innamincka and 260 kilometres (162 mi) south east of Birdsville in the Channel Country of Queensland.It has double frontage to Cooper Creek and is bounded to the west by the South Australian border.
The property occupies an area of 5,814 square kilometres (2,245 sq mi) along Cooper Creek and is able to carry a herd of approximately 15,000 cattle. It is currently owned by the Georgina Pastoral Company, a subsidiary of the Hughes Pastoral Group run by Peter Hughes and his family.
The Yapunyah Waterhole is a permanent waterhole in the Cooper Creek catchment and the Lake Eyre Basin. It lies in the Grey Range [ 3 ] between Adavale and Yaraka in South West Queensland . [ 4 ] The waterhole is fed by Nutting Creek, which starts at an elevation of 347 metres and drops around 85.5 metres over its 72 kilometre length before ...
The Wilson River was the highest it had been in over 20 years and Cooper Creek was running at over 14 miles (23 km) wide. [24] The dingo population had increased and the property used 400 aborigines to cull the population. At Nockatunga over 713 dingos and their pups were slaughtered in the first six months of 1933. [25]
Cooper's Creek or Coopers Creek may refer to: Cooper Creek, formerly Cooper's Creek, a river in Queensland and South Australia, Australia; Coopers Creek (New South Wales), a river in Australia; Coopers Creek, New Zealand, a town in the Waimakariri District; Coopers Creek (West Virginia), a stream in the United States; Coopers Creek, Victoria, a ...
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The Wilson River, part of the Lake Eyre Basin, is an ephemeral river in the Channel Country in western Queensland, Australia.. The Wilson River rises on the slopes of the Grey Range and flows generally northwest through the Nockanoora (or Noccundra) waterhole and is joined by two minor tributaries before reaching its confluence with the Cooper Creek at what was known as Depot Camp (Camp 63).