This state's wine producing Barossa Valley was first known as New Silesia because of the large number of German immigrants who settled there.
This state's wine producing Barossa Valley was first known as New Silesia because of the large number of German immigrants who settled there. The British performed nuclear tests in the 1950s at Maralinga in the Woomera Prohibited Region of this state, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield advocated colonizing this region as a safety valve to combat the overpopulation of Great Britain. This state's Yorke Peninsula separates its Gulf St. Vincent from its Spencer Gulf, and the first site of colonization in this region was its Kangaroo Island. This state contains the eastern half of a treeless region known as the Nullarbor Plain, as well as its country's largest body of water, Lake Eyre. The site of the mouth of the Murray-Darling River, for 10 points, name this Australian state with capital at Adelaide.
This state's wine producing Barossa Valley was first known as New Silesia because of the large number of German immigrants who settled there.
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