See links at page end for many other writings on the Cubbie Station issue.
All three images from Google Earth.
The 2700km long Darling River, which is a
major component of Australia's huge Murray-Darling Basin, begins
its path to the Murray in SE Queensland, near the town of Warwick.
Named the Condamine River it then runs NW, westerly, then turns SW and
runs through Surat and St George, changing name to the Balonne then the
Culgoa before crossing into New South Wales where the Culgoa joins the
Darling near Bourke. For map
out of Encarta2000 Atlas of region and rivers
from Brisbane to Cubbie Station.| Cubbie Station is a huge
irrigation property growing cotton
just
upstream of the NSW border. Click on map for larger version See links at page end for many other writings on the Cubbie Station issue. |
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| Cubbie has expanded rapidly in
the
1990's and has built huge storage dams with capacity of the order of
400 Giglitres (GL) or two thirds of Sydney annual water
consumption. The main area of Cubbie's cultivation shown here is
40 kms
wide. All three images from Google Earth. |
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| Cubbie Station is visible from
space on this
satellite image of SE Australia extending from Adelaide to
Brisbane. The dark wedge just east of the "yellow C" is Cubbie
Station and even their main dam is just visible near the gap in the
"C". Click on map for larger version. |
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