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    species-group Hairy-footed dunnart, Sminthopsis hirtipes Ooldea dunnart, Sminthopsis ooldea Sandhill dunnart, Sminthopsis psammophila Lesser hairy-footed...
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    Eucalyptus youngiana, commonly known as large-fruited mallee, Ooldea mallee and yarldarlba, is a species of mallee, less commonly a tree, that is native...
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    Daisy Bates (author) (category Burials at North Road Cemetery)
    referred to as mamu, meaning ghost or devil, and as "that poor old lady at Ooldea".: 109  It was not until long after her death that facts about her early...
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    visible to this civilisation. The Aboriginal people of the region around Ooldea have passed in oral tradition a detailed account of their mythology of the...
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    ceremonies. Ooldea or Yuldi/Yutulynga/Yooldool (the place of abundant water) sits on a permanent underground aquifer . The area is thought to have been originally...
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    located 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of Ceduna and 140 km (87 mi) south of Ooldea on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia. It lies on the traditional...
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    species-group Hairy-footed dunnart, Sminthopsis hirtipes Ooldea dunnart, Sminthopsis ooldea Sandhill dunnart, Sminthopsis psammophila Lesser hairy-footed...
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    mainly dry and desolate regions until the two halves of the line met at Ooldea on 17 October 1917. Under the aegis of the federal department of transport...
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    important lure was the availability of rations at Ooldea and surrounding missions, so he had them closed. The Ooldea mission was closed in June 1952, and the...
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    longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 478 kilometres (297 mi), which extends from Ooldea, South Australia to beyond Loongana, Western Australia...
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