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Darling Downs

British  

plural noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The new rules will also come into effect in the Darling Downs from 8am Monday after health alerts were issued for the Southern Hotel and Queens’ Park Markets in Toowoomba.

From The Guardian Aug. 29, 2020

If the Darling Downs dragons are a new species, then an urgent reassessment of their conservation status is needed.

From Scientific American Jan. 4, 2014

In short, a strong case can be made for the idea that the Darling Downs dragons are not conspecific with the other Grassland earless dragon populations: Melville .

From Scientific American Jan. 4, 2014

Three distinct modern populations are known: the two Canberra and Cooma populations in eastern New South Wales and the Darling Downs population of south-eastern Queenland, discovered in 2001.

From Scientific American Jan. 4, 2014

The Darling Downs, famous for their beauty and fertility, well deserve their title of "Garden of Queensland."

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

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