Moree Airport, the airport for Moree, New South Wales, Australia
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Moree Plains Shire, a local government area in New South Wales, Australia
The town is served by the daily NSW TrainLink Xplorer train service to Sydney as well as regular Qantas airline services, as well as the recent addition of Brindabella airlines, connecting Moree to Brisbane twice weekly.
The Northern Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from Sydney to Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield and Moree from the 1870s until November 1988.
In June 1959 it was converted to DEB set railcar operation dividing at Werris Creek with one portion for Glen Innes or Tenterfield and the other for Moree.
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Brindabella Airlines operate 36 services per week between Moree and Sydney using British Aerospace Jetstream 41 turboprops, while the airport also provides general aviation facilities, maintenance and support for agricultural aviation in the local area.
The ‘sugar scoop’ became famous again on 21 July 1969, the day of the Apollo 11 moon landing, relaying Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon from NASA's Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, Canberra, to Perth's TV audience via Moree earth station - the first live telecast into Western Australia.
Heferen became a wheat farmer after buying land on the Boggabilla-Camurra Railway line at Croppa Creek near Moree.
It is used for the mitigation of water from the Gwydir River upstream, between the Gwydir River, which runs through the village of Yarraman and the Mehi River, downstream which runs through the town of Moree.
Born in England, and educated at Loughborough Grammar School, he emigrated to Australia in 1861, and after working in the interior as a miner, drover and contractor, settled in Moree, New South Wales in 1867.
Yarraman is a locality in north-west New South Wales, Australia around 4 kilometres north of Moree on the Carnarvon Highway.