Burra
Appearance
Burra may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Burra, South Australia, a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia
- District Council of Burra (1872–1935)
- District Council of Burra Burra (1935–1997)
- Corporate Town of Burra (1876–1969)
- Electoral district of The Burra (1857–1875)
- Electoral district of Burra (1875–1902), (1938–1970)
- Electoral district of Burra Burra {1902–1938}
- Burra, Shetland, the collective name for two of the Shetland Islands
- Burra, New South Wales, a locality located near Canberra, Australia
- Burra Parish (Murray County), a land administrative division, essentially identical with the above locality
- Burra Parish (Kennedy County), a land administrative division in central western New South Wales
- Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee), named after the South Australian mine
People
[edit]- Djambu "Sambo" Burra Burra (born c.1946), noted Aboriginal Australian artist living at Ngukurr, NT
- Edward Burra (1905-1976), an English painter
- John Burra (born 1956), a Tanzanian long-distance runner
- Peter Burra (1909-1937), British literary critic
Other
[edit]- Burra Charter, a charter relating to conservation of Australian heritage places
- Burra, a common name of the Australian plant Eremophila fraseri
- Burra or Burra Leiteira, a common name of the neotropical plant Sapium scleratum in genus Sapium
See also
[edit]Places including the spelling of Burra
[edit]Similar names
[edit]- Burray, one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
- Barra (disambiguation)
- Bura (disambiguation)