Darling Downs

British  

plural noun

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

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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

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

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

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

On Darling Downs the annual increase of a flock of 100 ewes is 96 per cent.; in Bathurst it is only 80.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von