Grey Range

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The Grey Range is a low-lying range of hills located in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales. The range extends from the west of Blackall of Central West Queensland in the north to Tibooburra in the far west of New South Wales in the south. [1]

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The range's highest point, Mount Arrowsmith, reaches 2,000 ft (610 m) above sea level. [2]

The Yapunyah waterhole is a notable feature of the range.

Yaraka is located near the range.

History

Kuungkari (also known as Kungkari and Koonkerri) is a language of Western Queensland. The Kuungkari language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Longreach Shire Council and Blackall-Tambo Shire Council. [3]

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References

  1. Nicole Bond & Julia Harris (15 October 2010). "Rare plants, not so rare during 'boom' season". ABC Western Queensland. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. Heaton, John Henniker (1879). Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879. Australia: G. Robertson. p. 164.
  3. CC BY icon-80x15.png This Wikipedia article incorporates CC-BY-4.0 licensed text from: "Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map". State Library of Queensland. State Library of Queensland . Retrieved 30 January 2020.

Grey Range – Queensland by Degrees. Royal Geographical Society of Queensland. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

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