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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 .
Cooper Creek broke its banks in 1950 resulting in widespread flooding through the area. [13] In 1954 the station was sold, Nappa Merrie included the Lake Pure and Chastleton leases and occupied an area of 2,833 square miles (7,337 km 2) and was sold to the Playford River Pastoral Company by the Tancred Brothers and Conrick family. [1]
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 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]
It is located about 64 kilometres (40 mi) south west of Windorah and 275 kilometres (171 mi) east of Birdsville in the Channel Country of Queensland. The property occupies an area of 4,876 square kilometres (1,883 sq mi) of and is able to carry a herd of approximately 13,000 cattle. It is currently owned by the Australian Agricultural Company. [1]
The Barcoo grunter, also known as jade perch (scortum barcoo), is a native Australian freshwater fish found in the eastern Northern Territory rivers of Limmen, Roper, Macarthur; the Barkley Basin, and between the Gilbert River in Northern Queensland and the Lake Eyre drainage of central Australia. Barcoo Grunter is an excellent food fish, and ...
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King lived at Cooper Creek under the care of the Yandruwandha for around three months until he was discovered by Edwin Welch, a member of Alfred Howitt's relief party on 15 September 1861. King was cared for by the Yandruwandha. He received daily rations of nardoo, and sometimes fish, and repaid their efforts by shooting birds for them.