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Goyder’s Line Plaque

In the middle of the great 1860s drought, George Woodroffe Goyder, Surveyor General, was sent out to ‘lay down as nearly as practicable, the line of demarcation between the portion of the state where rainfall has extended and where the drought prevails’ (quoted in Mincham 1983:111).Goyder used the vegetation zones as guides for rainfall zones.

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