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Beringer Blass (W3)

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Seit August 2000 gehören "Wolf Blass" und "Beringer Vineyards" zur Foster’s Brewing Group. Durch diese Verbindung entstand das erste globale Premiumwein-Unternehmen der Welt, die "Beringer Blass Wine Estates". Dahinter verbirgt sich das vollständig kombinierte Portfolio der Premium- und Luxusweine beider Erzeuger.

Der amerikanisch-australische Weimulti wurde durch den aus Franken stammenden Deutschen Wolf "Blass" (geb. 1934) begründet.
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South Australia

Lake Eyre (W3)

Classification of Lake Eyre Languages Austin, Peter

lowest point: Lake Eyre -15 m

Eyre, Lake, a large intermittent salt lake in south-central Australia. It covers about 3,600 square miles (9,300 km2) and lies 52 feet (16 m) below sea level — the lowest elevation on the continent.
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Lake Eyre

Synopsis

SALT is the story of award winning and internationally renowned photo-artist, Murray Fredericks on his annual solo pilgrimage to the heart of Lake Eyre in the remote north corner of South Australia. It is a piece on the personal journey of the artist, the creative process and the landscape itself.

Alone on the most featureless landscape on earth, Murray’s personal video diary captures the beauty of this bleak, empty and desolate environment - and provides the catalyst for an unexpected personal transformation.

Told with subtlety, care and gentle, dry humour, SALT is the story of what emanates from emptiness. By combining the breathtaking imagery of this surreal landscape with the hauntingly delicate sounds of Aajinta’s Harmonic Spheres, it attempts to identify what lies beneath the surface of our reality and how 'something' can be produced from 'nothing'.

SALT interweaves Murray’s sublime pictures, with innovative time-lapse sequences, and illuminating and exposing video diary excerpts. Stripped back to its essentials, Murray’s emotional and mind altering rollercoaster ride is told through a fusion of personally reflective sound bytes and satellite phone conversations with his wife and family at home in Sydney.

Totally isolated, with only the horizon line as his reference point, and thoughts as his only companion, Murray is forced to overcome the environmental elements of rain, mud plains, lightning, equipment failure and the ever intrusive salt. The resulting photographs are not just sublime pictures of a remote and surreal location - they are still points that punctuate a journey of the mind and spirit.
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Lake Eyre (pronounced "air") is the lowest point in Australia, at approximately 15 m (49 ft) (AHD) below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, becomes the largest lake in Australia. It is the focal point of the vast Lake Eyre Basin and is found some 700km north of Adelaide.
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"Lake Eyre" a shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent

Edward Eyre - Lake Eyre, Eyre Peninsula, Eyre Highway, Eyre Creek, Mount Eyre, Eyre Mountains (New Zealand)

Der "Lake Eyre" (dt. "Eyresee", in der Sprache der Aborigines: "Kati-tanda") ist bei den wenigen Gelegenheiten, bei denen er gefüllt ist, der größte See und mit 17 m unter dem Meeresspiegel der tiefste Punkt Australiens. Seine größte Ausdehnung kann 9.690 km˛ betragen (etwa so groß wie Kärnten oder halb so groß wie Sachsen). Der Salzsee ist der Mittelpunkt des ausgedehnten Lake Eyre Basins. Dieses Einzugsgebiet hat eine Fläche von 1.164.063 km˛.[2]

Der See wurde nach dem britischen Forscher "Edward John Eyre" benannt, der ihn 1840 entdeckte. Aus dem Weltall gesehen erscheint er wie eine Art „Geistergesicht“.
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Alle drei Jahre etwa kommt es zu einem Wasserpegel von 1,5 Metern, einmal pro Jahrzehnt zu einem Stand von 4 Metern. Vier mal pro Jahrhundert ist der See ganz oder annähernd gefüllt. Gegen Ende des folgenden Sommers ist der größte Teil des Wassers bereits wieder verdunstet.
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Jauncey, Dorothy
Bardi Grubs and Frog Cakes
South Australian Words

Bardi Grubs & Frog Cakes is a dictionary of words about the croweaters' state, giving dated evidence of the usage of 500 words associated with South Australia from 1835 to 2003. South Australians have always regarded themselves as different. No convict taint was the proud claim of the new province in the mid-nineteenth century, and different words arose as the free settlers borrowed from Aboriginal languages to describe the 'new' plants and animals and fish. Cornish and German-Lutheran arrivals to South Australia then added other terms to the language. As settlement moved further away from Adelaide, other words had to be found to describe agricultural innovations, and features of the state's extraordinary outback. By the 2000s, the stuffy respectability of early Adelaide had made way for socially progressive legislation and an enviable lifestyle, and terms to document these changes also entered the vocabulary.

This dictionary reflects the social history of South Australia through these words.