Tarcoola
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Tarcoola is the name of a number of places:
  • Tarcoola, South Australia
    Tarcoola, South Australia
    Tarcoola is a town in the Far North of South Australia 416 km north-northwest of Port Augusta.Tarcoola is taken from a non-local aboriginal language from an area around Tarcoola Station in NSW; it means river bend.-History:Tarcoola Post Office opened on 18 August 1900 and the town was...

    • Tarcoola railway station, South Australia
      Tarcoola railway station, South Australia
      Tarcoola is a station on the Trans-Australian Railway. It serves the former mining town of Tarcoola in South Australia. Since the Central Australia Railway was rebuilt as standard gauge in 1980, it has been the site of the junction of the line to Alice Springs and later to Darwin as the...

  • Tarcoola Station on the Darling River
  • Mount Tarcoola, Western Australia
    Mount Tarcoola, Western Australia
    Mount Tarcoola is a southern suburb of Geraldton, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Geraldton.The northern part of the suburb was gazetted in 1972 by the Town of Geraldton, and the southern part was gazetted in 1979 by the Shire of Greenough.-Geography:Mount...

  • Tarcoola Goldfields South Australia
  • Tarcoola Beach, Western Australia
    Tarcoola Beach, Western Australia
    Tarcoola Beach is a southern coastal suburb of Geraldton, Western Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Geraldton.The suburb was gazetted in 1985-1986.-Geography:...

  • Tarcoola Stud, Victoria

Tarcoola is also
  • Tarcoola is the name of the racehorse that won the 1893 Melbourne Cup
    Melbourne Cup
    The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

    horse race
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