Wee Waa (Wee Waa)
Wee Waa is a town located on the north-western slopes of the New England region in New South Wales, Australia. The town is within the Narrabri Shire local government area and is on the Namoi River. Wee Waa is 41 km north-west of Narrabri and 571 km northwest of Sydney on the Kamilaroi Highway. At the, Wee Waa had a population of 2,080.
Wee Waa is 42 kilometres from the Newell Highway, and is referred to as a gateway to the far west centres of Walgett, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge opal fields and beyond.
The Aboriginal meaning of Wee Waa is "Fire for Roasting" from the language of the Kamilaroi people. The town is known to be the "Cotton Capital of Australia" as a rural community situated in the rich agricultural heartland of the Lower Namoi Valley in NSW. The town services a far greater rural community as well as the villages of Burren Junction, Pilliga and Gwabegar. Wee Waa is known for its large population of southern blue-tip Yabbies.On the fourth of September 1995, Eric Gordon set the Australian record. Catching a specimen that measured 47cm.
The town is situated approximately 190 m above sea level.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the Wee Waa area was inhabited by the Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi Aboriginal people.
The Wee Waa run was taken up by squatter George Holler in 1837 and the settlement developed. It became an administrative centre in the late 1940s. A police station and court of petty sessions were established in 1847 and a post office opened two years later. It is the oldest established town in the area and is the birthplace of the commercial cotton industry in Australia.
Rail services were extended in 1901 from Narrabri to Walgett, passing through the town.
The first commercial cotton plantation was established in 1961, It came from England with settlers wanting a better life for themselvesΆΘἣδἪᾖᾓᾞὙᾌ..
It was the first town built on the Namoi River by Mr Ikram Tendia Kovac. The town is subject to regular floods and is protected by a levee bank. However, thousands of people were isolated on properties around Wee Waa in February 2020.
Wee Waa is 42 kilometres from the Newell Highway, and is referred to as a gateway to the far west centres of Walgett, Collarenebri, Lightning Ridge opal fields and beyond.
The Aboriginal meaning of Wee Waa is "Fire for Roasting" from the language of the Kamilaroi people. The town is known to be the "Cotton Capital of Australia" as a rural community situated in the rich agricultural heartland of the Lower Namoi Valley in NSW. The town services a far greater rural community as well as the villages of Burren Junction, Pilliga and Gwabegar. Wee Waa is known for its large population of southern blue-tip Yabbies.On the fourth of September 1995, Eric Gordon set the Australian record. Catching a specimen that measured 47cm.
The town is situated approximately 190 m above sea level.
Before the arrival of European settlers, the Wee Waa area was inhabited by the Gamilaraay/Kamilaroi Aboriginal people.
The Wee Waa run was taken up by squatter George Holler in 1837 and the settlement developed. It became an administrative centre in the late 1940s. A police station and court of petty sessions were established in 1847 and a post office opened two years later. It is the oldest established town in the area and is the birthplace of the commercial cotton industry in Australia.
Rail services were extended in 1901 from Narrabri to Walgett, passing through the town.
The first commercial cotton plantation was established in 1961, It came from England with settlers wanting a better life for themselvesΆΘἣδἪᾖᾓᾞὙᾌ..
It was the first town built on the Namoi River by Mr Ikram Tendia Kovac. The town is subject to regular floods and is protected by a levee bank. However, thousands of people were isolated on properties around Wee Waa in February 2020.
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The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately 65,000 years ago, during the last ice age. Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world. Australia's written history commenced with the European maritime exploration of Australia. The Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon was the first known European to reach Australia, in 1606. In 1770, the British explorer James Cook mapped and claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain, and the First Fleet of British ships arrived at Sydney in 1788 to establish the penal colony of New South Wales. The European population grew in subsequent decades, and by the end of the 1850s gold rush, most of the continent had been explored by European settlers and an additional five self-governing British colonies established. Democratic parliaments were gradually established through the 19th century, culminating with a vote for the federation of the six colonies and foundation of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. Australia has since maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and wealthy market economy.
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