* Burra Creek Nature Reserve

It lies east of the Clare Valley in the Bald Hills range, part of the northern Mount Lofty Ranges, and on Burra Creek.

The Burra Burra Copper Mine was named after the Burra Burra Creek that flows through the town.

The surveyed area was named the Burra Creek Special Survey.

The river rises in the Burra Range, part of the Great Dividing Range, 110 km northeast of Hughenden and flows in a westerly direction past Hughenden, Richmond and Julia Creek then northwest to the Gulf of Carpentaria 25 km west of Karumba, Queensland.

At the south end of West Burra is Kettla Ness, with impressive cliff scenery ; it is linked to the main island by a shingle and sand tombolo which also provides another attractive sandy beach.

Hamnavoe ( an extremely common Shetland name ) is the main settlement, and there is also Bridge End, so called because it is near the bridge to East Burra.

Mining began on 29 September 1845 with the first gunpowder charge set off on the monster Burra Burra copper lode and by mid 1846, the Bon Accord Mining Company had also commenced operations.

He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide before first becoming a teacher, schoolmaster, and Methodist preacher, and later the editor and proprietor of the Burra Record ; he also wrote for the Adelaide Register.

Special services were also operated to other places on the South Australian broad gauge network including Burra ( near the Clare Valley ), Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley and shorter services on the metropolitan network.

The town began as a single company mining township that, by 1851, was a set of townships ( company, private and government-owned ) collectively known as “ The Burra ”.

Kooringa is still the main section of the town and is known as Burra South.

He made his wealth from the Burra Burra Copper Mines, which was known as the " Monster Mine " that secured the wealth of the colony of South Australia.

These rhyolites are known in New South Wales as the Nimbin Rhyolite and Queensland as the Binna Burra Rhyolite.

The bitap algorithm is perhaps best known as one of the underlying algorithms of the Unix utility agrep, written by Udi Manber, Sun Wu, and Burra Gopal.

* Burra, Rani Day & Rao, Maithili ( 2006 ), " Cinema ", Encyclopedia of India ( vol.

Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland suggests that the name " Burra " is a corruption of " Borgarey " ( island of the broch ), and while this is unlikely, and no broch is extant, the place name Brough, on West Burra lends some support to this case.

Several new colours ( Cocoon White ( pearl ), Astral Blue ( metallic ), Lugano Green ( pearl ) and Burra ( pearl )) were introduced during the later production of the TF range and the final unit built came out in December 1998.

Prominent ridges and peaks in the park, from west to east and north to south, include Pine Ridge, Middle Ridge, Blue Ridge ( with Mount Sizer the highest point ), Rock House Ridge, Bear Mountain, Bear Mountain Peak, Robinson Mountain, Rooster Comb, Palassou Ridge, Mahoney Ridge ( and Mahoney Meadows ), Willow Ridge, Pacheco Ridge, Mustang Peak, Walsh Peak, Willson Field Hill, Wasno Ridge, Burra Burra Peak, Willson Peak, Rock Springs Peak, and Phegley Ridge.

This track links Binna Burra to the O ' Reilly guesthouse at Green Mountains, a distance of some 23 kilometres which can be completed one way in a day or in 7 to 8 hours.

At the Point of Oxan in the far north west, in Burra Sound, are block ships, which were scuttled deliberately during World War II.

Gawler prospered early with the discovery of copper nearby at Kapunda and Burra, which resulted in Gawler becoming a resting stop to and from Adelaide.

The Adis live in hill villages, each traditionally keeping to itself, under a selected chief styled Gam or Gao Burra ( British era development ) who moderates the village council, which acts even as traditional court Kebang.

The Burra Charter, which outlines the best practice standard for cultural heritage management in Australia, is named for a conference held here in 1979 by Australia ICOMOS ( International Council on Monuments and Sites ) where the document was adopted.

This process took millions of years to convert the low grade copper sulphide ore, which was probably created 300 to 400 millions of years ago during the last period of vulcanism near Burra.

In 1845 even larger deposits of copper were discovered at Burra which brought wealth to the Adelaide shopkeepers who invested in the mine.

Other significant peaks include New Campbell Hill () and Stein Hill (), which overlooks Burra.

The system used to cross the Northern Mount Lofty Ranges through the Burra creek gorge, and then flow out to Spencer Gulf near Port Pirie.

The broadgauge railway eventually went through Burra to reach a break of gauge station further north at Terowie.

It passes the world famous Barossa Valley wine region to the Mid North towns of Kapunda and Burra, winds pass the towns of Hallett and Spalding through the Bundaleer Forest and into the Flinders Ranges.

The question was whether the line should continue from Kapunda northwards along the valley of the River Light to Burra, or whether another line should stretch northwards from Gawler through the Gilbert Valley.

During the life of the Burra Burra Mine, the township was widely reported as shabby, rundown and poorly maintained with the inhabitants having little incentive to maintain their rented properties.

The Burra Burra Mine — established in the 1890s in the Ducktown Basin — was at its height one of the nation's largest copper mining operations.

Trondra was becoming rapidly depopulated until 1970, when road bridges were built to neighbouring Burra ( West and East ) and to the southern peninsula of the Shetland Mainland.

The film was shot almost entirely on location in and around the South Australian town of Burra, with the Pietersburg courtroom scenes filmed at the former Redruth Gaol.

This diverged from the Port line at a junction in the north parklands, and was extended to Kapunda in 1860, and Burra by 1870, both important copper mining towns in the early days of the colony.

The team was made up by many great players, including Edgar " Pata Gorda " Morales, Roberto " la Burra " Rivas, Alberto " Pechuga " Villalta, Raúl " Araña " Magaña, Guido Alvarado, Salvador Mariona, Mario Monge, Luis " Cascarita " Tapia, Miguel " el Chueco " Hermosilla, Ricardo Sepúlveda and Jorge " el Conejo " Liévano.

The broad-gauge connection to Adelaide, via Burra, was severed in the late 1980s.

Rothenstein was Principal of the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935, where he encouraged figures including Edward Burra, U Ba Nyan and Henry Moore.

The first South Australian steam-operated line was built as a broad gauge ( 1600 mm ) line in 1856 between the city and Port Adelaide stopping at Bowden, Woodville and Alberton, followed by a broad gauge line to Gawler the next year 1857. This line was extended to Kapunda, a copper mining town in 1860 and then to Burra the great copper centre in 1870.

He made money trading whatever was needed, and supplying services ( transport, goods, a butcher shop ) to new mining towns springing up in outback New South Wales and South Australia ( including Cobar, Kapunda, Burra and eventually Broken Hill.

The Burra Burra Copper Mine was established in 1848 mining the copper deposit discovered in 1845.

The town of Burra was officially formed in 1940 by a notice in the South Australian Government Gazette with the consolidation of the mostly culturally-based townships of Redruth, Aberdeen, New Aberdeen, Hampton, Copperhouse, Kooringa, Llwchwr and Lostwithiel.

The original inhabitants of the Burra area were the Ngadjuri Aboriginal people whose first Western contact was in 1839.