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The river was called Muddy Creek in 1824 by explorers Hume and Hovell because of its muddy banks. The river was renamed when or soon after the town of Muddy Creek was renamed Yea. [2] [4] The river, like the town is named in honour of Colonel Lacy Walter Yea – a British Army colonel killed during the Crimean War in 1855, the year that Yea was ...
Lothingland is an area in the English counties of Suffolk and Norfolk on the North Sea coast. It is bound by the River Yare and Breydon Water to the north, the River Waveney to the west and Oulton Broad to the south, and includes the parts of Lowestoft north of Lake Lothing.
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Snodgrass's station covered the area from the present-day town of Yea up the valleys of the east and west branches of the Muddy Creek, now the Yea River. His homestead was near the junction of these two branches, therefore surveyors named the east branch Murrindindi Creek, now the Murrindindi River. [2] There has never been a Murrindindi town.
The RNLI continued to build lifeboats to the Norfolk and Suffolk design and stationed them at other places on the east coast between the River Thames and the Humber. [3] [4] The last Norfolk and Suffolk lifeboat was built in 1925 and was in use until 1953. The design evolved throughout this time, the last boats being built with petrol motors.
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Melba Highway is a semi-rural highway that connects the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne to the town of Yea, [5] in Victoria's Upper Goulburn region. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, a famed Australian opera singer of the early 20th century, whose former country estate lies at the southern end of the highway in Coldstream.
First Eastern Counties' year-round Coastal Clipper services connect a number of seaside resorts in Norfolk and Suffolk, with service 99 using closed-top buses branded in blue livery, serving Lowestoft and Southwold via Pakefield and Kessingland; service 99 briefly gained a 99A variant linking Bungay and Southwold, running five times a day ...