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Dalton (34°43′S 149°12′E) is a small, inland, country town in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and in Upper Lachlan Shire. Its claim to fame is that has been claimed to have the nation's highest rate of earthquakes and tremors. The Southern Tablelands is a geographic area of the State of New South Wales, Australia. ...
Capital Sydney Government Const. ...
Upper Lachlan is a Local Government Area in southern New South Wales, Australia. ...
An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ...
For the film see Tremors (film). ...
Dalton is north of the Hume Highway that joins Sydney and Melbourne, between Goulburn and Yass in the Monaro district of southern New South Wales, about 280 km south-west of Sydney and 60 km north-west of the national capital, Canberra. Nearby towns are Cullerin, Gundaroo, Gunning, Yass, and Murrumbateman. The Hume is A31 from Sydney to Albury . ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
Melbournes Yarra River is a popular area for walking, jogging, cycling, rowing and for relaxing on the banks with a picnic Melbourne (pronounced ) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3. ...
A landmark in Goulburn, the Big Merino Sheep Goulburn () is a provincial cathedral city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in Goulburn Mulwaree Council. ...
Yass Court House designed by Colonial Architect, James Barnet. ...
Monaro region: between Adaminaby and Cooma Monaro (pronounced mon-air-ro) is the name of a region in the south of New South Wales, Australia. ...
The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ...
For other uses, see Canberra (disambiguation). ...
Gunnings main street Gunning is a town on the Hume Highway, between Goulburn and Yass in the Monaro district of southern New South Wales, Australia, about 260km south-west of Sydney and 50km north-west of the national capital, Canberra. ...
Yass Court House designed by Colonial Architect, James Barnet. ...
Murrumbateman (34°57′ S 149°01′ E) is a small village in New South Wales, Australia. ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...
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The Monaro region is renowned for its sheep wool industry, notably for the Merino breed. The dry-land farming supports both summer and winter wheat, and some other cereal crops, but agriculture also extends cattle production for meat. Species See text. ...
Long and short hair wool at the South Central Family Farm Research Center in Boonesville, Arizona Wool is the fibre derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats, alpacas and rabbits may also be...
Unshorn merino sheep. ...
Species T. aestivum T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum References: ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 For the indie rock group see: Wheat (band). ...
Like many Australian towns, its economy and social life has fallen into some lethargy and this has begun to show. The wide streets are generally well maintained, it still has a viable hotel (pub) and several small shops and a petrol station, and the churches are maintained. However, there is a sense that the youth of the town leave for the bigger towns and cities and that the vibrance of Dalton's heydays of the early 20th century have gone. Gasoline, as it is known in North America, or petrol, in many Commonwealth countries (sometimes also called motor spirit) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ...
There is a recent move to have bed and breakfast accommodation on farms, and offer a "farm experience" to city dwellers. Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ...
The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Logo of the UCA The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was formed on June 22, 1977 when the Methodist Church of Australasia, Presbyterian Church of Australia and Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union document. ...
Geology and Earthquakes The underlying rocks strata of the region from Dalton to Lake George some 40km east is geologically active, with the lake formed along a fault system running north-south. Water is known to drain from the lake and appear in the Yass River, leading to speculation that the ground water lubricates the geological activity along the faults. Lake George from space, November 1985 The lake in August 2005 Lake George is a lake in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia and is about 30 minutes drive north-east of Canberra along the Federal Highway enroute to Sydney, state capital of New South Wales. ...
Several amateur geologists in Dalton and the surrounding region have seismic recorders that automatically send data to Geosciences Australia. Seismology (from the Greek seismos = earthquake and logos = word) is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth. ...
A 5.5 magnitude Richter scale earthquake occurred on 1 January 1949 in the Dalton-Gunning region. It was felt in Canberra. The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ...
January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...
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