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Battle of Gully Ravine

The artillery fire on Gully Spur was overwhelming and the 2/10th Gurkha Rifles and the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers advanced rapidly a distance of half a mile to a point named "Fusilier Bluff" which was to become the northern-most Allied position at Helles.

Ben Bowyang

Following the misadventures of two larrikin soldiers, the strip was based on the "Gunn's Gully" newspaper humor columns written during the 1920s and 1930s by C. J. Dennis of the Melbourne Herald.

Brixental

Another narrow section is the gully near the village of Itter.

Cerro Castillo

800m ice mixed gully on East Face, up to 85 degrees, alpine TD grade, by Joan Sole/Carlos Buhler

Crazy Titch

Amongst his better known work was "Sing Along" (2004) and "Gully" on which he collaborated with Sugababes' Keisha Buchanan.

Division of La Trobe

It includes the suburbs of Boronia, Belgrave and Ferntree Gully in the north-west, the suburbs of Berwick, Beaconsfield and Officer in the south, and the towns of Gembrook, Emerald and Cockatoo.

Eucalyptus camaldulensis

A section of the original Murray River channel immediately behind the fault was abandoned, and exists today as an empty channel known as Green Gully.

Gembrook, Victoria

Soon after this time (between 1958 and 1962) the broad gauge line to Upper Ferntree Gully was extended to Belgrave which is less than 18 km away from Gembrook.

Green Gully SC

Green Gully is 1 of the 8 Clubs that are still active in the Victorian Premier League, Green Gully is a 'Sister Club' with Sunshine George Cross FC, It is believed that both Green Gully and Sunshine Georgies adopted the Same kit as a Maltese Premier League club Floriana F.C., Floriana is one of the oldest clubs in Malta.

Gully of Petrushino

The large groups of citizens (old men, women, communists, young communists, gypsies, Jews, and anyone suspected in aiding the Taganrog resistance movement) were taken from Vladimirskaya Plaza in Taganrog to Petrushino village (near Beriev), where they were shot to death in the Gully of Petrushino (Todesschlucht).

Hanging Rock, New South Wales

Also that year Californians dug another water race from the swamp at the head of Dangars Gully to Nuggety Gully.

Jacks Gully landfill

Jacks Gully currently takes 115,000 to 130,000 tonnes of waste per annum from Camden, Campbelltown, Wollondilly and Wingecarribee councils plus a portion from Liverpool.

Lehigh Gorge State Park

This is the important northern entrance into the river cut gully or gap between highlands, and was an important barge loading transshipment point on the newly extended upper Lehigh Canal fed initially by a shortline railroad from the Mountain Top yard dating from the 1837 enabling legislation set up to join the Lehigh and Susquehanna Valleys via Mountain Top and the Ashley Planes incline railway.

Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club

The Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club was established in Melbourne over 45 years ago and is located at 1200 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Victoria, Australia.

Nesquehoning Creek

U.S. Route 209 climbs up inside the V-shaped gully of the westernmost of these from the beginning terminus junction with PA-54 within downtown Nesquehoning up over the ridge to the headwaters region of the Panther Creek Valley across the Nesquehoning Ridge drainage divide into the valley formed with Pisgah Ridge.

Nick Wall

Born in Lower Gully, Kelligrews, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, while still a small boy Nick Wall's family moved to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

No. 5 Fighter Sector RAAF

Initially set up in tents near Sandfly Gully, south of the RAAF Darwin runway in early 1942, 5FS's position was deemed to be too exposed and the unit relocated to Berrimah, Northern Territory, near No. 119 Australian General Hospital, where an operations room had been constructed.

Noel Odell

Odell Gully in the Huntington Ravine of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington is named after Odell, who was the first to demonstrate its ascent in winter.

Oakleigh, Victoria

Ferntree Gully Road is a main route that residents take when travelling to Belgrave to have a ride on Puffing Billy.

Quequén Grande River

Discovered in 1748 by Jesuit missionaries José Cardiel and Thomas Falkner, they originally named the waterway San José; its eventual name originated from the Araucanian Kem Kem ("gully").

Sinbad skink

The Sinbad Skink, Oligosoma pikitanga is a rare species of medium sized skink endemic to New Zealand where it lives in an alpine habitat in Sinbad Gully, in Fiordland National Park.

Tea Tree Gully, South Australia

The suburb acquired its name from the white flowered 'tea trees' (Leptospermum lanigerum) that grew in the gully.

The Lairig Club

It is interesting to note that other than the first ascent of Raven’s Gully in Glencoe by Hamish MacInnes and Chris Bonington in 1953 all the grade V routes in Scotland were confined to the Lairig’s stomping ground of the Eastern Cairngorms in the early 1950s and it is ironic that it was Lairig members Patey and Nicol who teamed up with Hamish MacInnes to climb the first grade V on Ben Nevis, this came in the form of the much prized first ascent of Zero Gully.

Third Battle of Krithia

The 14th Battalion of King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs Regiment, advancing along the floor of Gully Ravine, were almost wiped out, losing 380 men out of 514 and 80% of their officers.

Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria

Justin Huber – professional major league baseballer who played baseball at Upwey Ferntree Gully Baseball Club

William Pedley

Pedley was born at Stubbing Court, Wingerworth, Derbyshire, the son of Thomas Humphrey Pedley and his wife Mary Gully, daughter of John Gully.

Yarran Dheran

Following presentations from the local residents and the Blackburn Tree Preservation Society, the site was chosen for a native plant park and the name Yarran Dheran, roughly meaning Wattle Gully, was chosen.


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