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  1. Area of SW Queensland, Australia, in which
  2. channels such as Cooper's Creek (where
  3. explorers Burke and Wills died in 1861) are
  4. cut by intermittent rivers. Summer rains
  5. supply rich grass for cattle, and there are
  6. the `beef roads', down which herds are taken
  7. in linked trucks for slaughter.
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