Darling Downs

plural noun

a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area

Soon the whole of the Darling Downs was parcelled out into large sheep stations.

The best rams procurable from the Darling Downs and noted Southern studs rapidly improved the flocks.

I had descended--from a scrubby table land, the continuation of Darling Downs--into a system of easterly waters.

The feed was all parched up: the native carrot, which was so green when we passed Darling Downs, was here withered and in seed.

They spoke a language entirely different from that of the natives of Darling Downs, but "yarrai" still meant water.

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