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5 unusual facts about Cooper Creek


Bush bread

The Cooper Creek Aborigines, the Yandruwandha people, gave them fish, beans called 'padlu' and bread made from the ground sporocarps of the ngardu (nardoo) plant (Marsilea drummondii).

Coopers Creek

Cooper's Creek or Coopers Creek, now more commonly known as Cooper Creek, is a river in Queensland and South Australia, Australia.

Dunham River

The river was named in 1882 by explorer and Kimberley pioneer Michael Durack after the clergyman, Reverend Father Dunham of Brisbane, who in 1871 was the first Reverend to visit Cooper Creek in outback Queensland.

Musk Duck

Musk Ducks are moderately common through the Murray-Darling and Cooper Creek basins, and in the wetter, fertile areas in the south of the continent: the southwest corner of Western Australia, Victoria, and Tasmania.

Romnalda

Cooper Creek (P.I.Forster+ PIF4402) Qld Herbarium – only found in a few isolated locations around Cooper Creek, Wet Tropics region, north-eastern Queensland; and has obtained the Queensland government's official conservation status listing of "vulnerable" species.


Cape Bedford Mission

Founded by Lutheran staff from the Cooper Creek area of South Australia (who also established the Elim Aboriginal mission in Queensland), it became a stable community with the assignment of two young Neuendettelsau missionaries (George Schwarz and Wilhelm Poland).

Central West Queensland

Waterways coursing through Central West Queensland include the Barcoo River, Georgina River, Diamantina River, Thomson River, Burke River, Hamilton River and Cooper Creek.

John McKinlay

On 20 October 1861 the grave of a European, supposed to be Charles Gray, was found near Cooper Creek.

Samuel Albert White

He made several private ornithological collecting expeditions across remote areas of Australia, to Alice Springs (1913), Musgrave and Everard Ranges (1914), Cooper Creek (1916), Nullarbor Plain (1917-1918), Finke River (1921), and Adelaide to Darwin and return (1922), on behalf of Gregory Mathews.

William Hodgkinson

Hodgkinson left the expedition before it ended in disaster at Cooper Creek, and went on to join first Alfred William Howitt’s Victorian Relief Expedition, which aimed to establish the fate of the Burke and Wills expedition, and then in 1861 the John McKinlay relief party, on which he served as second-in-command.


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