Talk:Nullarbor Plain

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The word aboriginal, in use in English since the 17th century to mean "first or earliest known, indigenous", was used in Australia as early as 1789; it was soon capitalised and became the standard name for indigenous Australians.
Strictly speaking Aboriginal is an adjective and Aborigine is a noun. It is therefore correct to refer either to Aboriginal Australians or Australian Aborigines, but not to Australian Aboriginals.
: As I understand it, the capital letter is correct when talking about Australian Aborigines, in the same way as a capital 'E' for the English migrants. Lower-case 'a' aborigines are the first people in any country, but upper-case 'A' Aborigines are from Australia in particular. --ScottDavis 23:55, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Aboriginal or aboriginal ?? 

message: It has been fulflled. SeanMack 19:12, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: image request

message: I have removed
Contrary to popular belief, the driest spot in Australia is actually found in this region and not to the north, in the area of the Northern Territory (NT) known as the Centre. The SA settlement of Farina has average annual precipitation of 142 mm (5.6 inches); by contrast, Alice Springs, NT, receives an average of 281 mm (11.1 inches) of rain per year.
Farina, South Australia is not on the Nullarbor plain, and the Bureau of Meteorology statistics don't support the numbers. --ScottDavis | Talk 13:53, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate 

message: Is it "Nullabor" or "Nullarbor"?  Both spelling are about equally common in the article.
--194.47.143.5 18:00, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Nullarbor" is the correct spelling, because it derives from the latin "null-arbor" ("no trees"). It is often aboriginalised (or just misspelt) as "Nullabor". I'll change the whole article to "Nullarbor" as that is the technically correct spelling, but "nullabor" is quite common as well. Graham/pianoman87 talk 08:51, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like the article has been changed already. Thanks for that, I didn't look at the history. Graham/pianoman87 talk 08:57, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If "Nullarbor" is not a pseudoetymology; see below. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 21:22, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling? 

message: Is there something that requires thst south australian box at the bottom - it is in western australia as well? SatuSuro 15:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there's not. I've nominated that horrible template for deletion here.--cj | talk 21:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: South Australia?

message: I hereby claim the page Nullarbor Plain to be within the scope of WP:WA.
Any editor may continue to contribute. Fred 15:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proclamation

message: Most of the links in the article space are either irrelevent or wrongly placed - in time they will be moved or removed - cheers SatuSuro 00:53, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

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:The Aboriginal name for the area is 'Oondiri' meaning 'the waterless'.
We need a more reliable source for this. Firstly, we need to be specific about which of the hundreds of Aboriginal language this is in. Secondly, 'Oondiri' doesn't look like a modern transcription; we need to either get a more accurate transcription from a linguistic source, or failing that, find out what primary source this transcription came from. --Ptcamn (talk) 13:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aboriginal name 

message: The straight track of rail herein, the longest in the world, was noted as 478 km. It was changed to 498 km by a user who notes the Tea and Sugar Train gives this figure, that article gives a reference to Zwingle, Erla. "The Tea & Sugar Train: Lifeline in Australia's Outback." National Geographic, June 1986, pp. 737 - 757. I had reverted it based on what I was able to glean from the web, trying to eliminate sources that may be quoting our document, because it favoured the former number. I also found this:
The world's record for the longest stretch of straight railway belongs to the Transcontinental Railway of Australia, which is dead-straight for 328 miles across the Nullarbor Plain, but not dead-level.
— The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 4 (July 1, 1938.) Railway Features. — Dead-straight Lines
Sigh ...  is described — er, somewhere! — as being the former length, the route was changed at some stage. The fact is also noted at Indian Pacific, which gave a link to this primary source: "world's longest straight stretch of railway track (478 kilometres)". I could see this was going to involve a series of tedious edits, questionable sources, and original or deep research, so I did this instead:  
:I asked the ip to supply a reliable source, and hoped I would never hear of it again! 
Pretty schmick, eh! Unfortunately not, they neatly flipped it back to me by posting on my talk page. The nerve of some people ;-) — cygnis insignis 09:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Coincidently [?] the longest water main,   is close to the second figure . cygnis insignis 09:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest straight track 

message: The 02:58, 6 December 2009 Alexbot version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia.--Wing (talk) 20:12, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation into Chinese Wikipedia 

message: "Nullus arbor" may be a pseudoetymology. It is attested at least as early as 1878, but at about the same time "Nullabor" and "Nullabar" are attested. John Forrest was credited (wrongly) as origin of the "nullus arbor" etymology. See here p.187 and here p.66, 150-151, which seem to suggest an underlying Aboriginal etymology, perhaps meaning "region where the wind hits you like a waddy".
ffff  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.82.123.39 (talk) 01:48, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of name

message: Came to this page by chance, and have thrown a citation needed tag onto the section about the UK government's actions surrounding the Maralinga nuclear testing. This stuff seems pretty strong to be unsupported like this. I note there are plenty of refs on the Maralinga main page, some of which I daresay could be ported across by someone at least passing familiar with this material (not me!). Nice page though! DanHobley (talk) 14:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi DanHobley, in fact, the entire section needs additional references, Accordingly, a "Refimprove section" template has been added.  Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 19:38, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maralinga tests 

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message: Hi it says Southest. Is this a typo for Southeast or Southwest? ϢereSpielChequers 18:18, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Decidedly southeast. Also without consulting atlas moved Great Australian Bight to the south. Doug butler (talk) 23:01, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Southest

message: thumb|right|Rainbow over the Nullarbor Plain
I don't see the rainbow. Art LaPella (talk) 16:07, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rainbow 

message: This is a minor thing but it certainly jumped out at me immediately--the article describes a group of six Jesus Christians crossing the expanse, and then there is a photo claiming to be of that group, but there are seven people in the photo.  Is the description inaccurate or was there someone additional in the photo who did not make the crossing? 74.221.45.83 (talk) 74.221.45.83 (talk) 16:44, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jesus Christians' crossing