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Willochra Plain : ウィキペディア英語版 | Willochra Plain
The Willochra Plain is a wide plain situated east of Port Augusta, South Australia. The area falls in view from Mount Brown Lookout and from walking trails in The Dutchmans Stern Conservation Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dutchmans Stern )〕 ==History== The traditional owners of the area are the ''Ngadjuri'' peoples/〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ngadjuri )〕 The first European explorer to sight the plain was Thomas Burr in September 1842. Burr was traversing the coastal plain between present Port Augusta and Port Pirie, on the western side of the rugged Southern Flinders Ranges, when he decided to leave the coast to cross eastward over the Ranges. From the eastern escarpment he found that the Ranges overlooked extensive ‘well-wooded and watered country’, now called the Willochra Plain, stretching from Melrose northward toward Quorn.〔''Southern Australian'', 28 October 1842, p. 2.〕 Burr’s encouraging reports of his discoveries in this region immediately led to the arrival of European pastoralists. The Ragless Brothers were the first settlers on the plain later in the 1840s, they established a sheep station. The townsite of Willochra was surveyed in 1860 and the brothers established a hotel but the townsite was never further developed and was abandoned during the drought in the 1860s. Overgrazing and the drought lead to the saltbush cover of the land being stripped and he area became a dustbowl. The Ragless brothers survived the drought but later lost the property when it was carved up into paddocks to grow wheat.〔
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