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Mackellar

British  
/ məˈkɛlə /

noun

  1. Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote "My Country", Australia's best known poem

"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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As Sydney poet Dorothea Mackellar famously wrote in her 1908 poem “My Country,” ours is a sunburnt country “of droughts and flooding rains.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2020

The poet Dorothea Mackellar called Australia "a sunburnt country, a land … of droughts and flooding rains".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2018

“I look forward to continuing to serve the people of Mackellar as their local member, the job that has always been my first responsibly despite other positions I have held within the parliament.”

From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2015

Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed "a sunburnt country," suffered a torturous drought from the late 1990s through 2012.

From US News ● May 25, 2015

“None but you and Mackellar are to be made acquainted with my movements.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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