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The common wallaroo ( Osphranter robustus ), also known as the euro, hill wallaroo, or simply wallaroo, [2] is a species of macropod. The word euro is particularly applied to one subspecies ( O. r. erubescens ). [3] The eastern wallaroo is mostly nocturnal and solitary, and is one of the more common macropods.
Coordinates: 33°55′0″S 137°37′0″E. Boundaries of the Corporate Town of Wallaroo within the Hundred of Wallaroo at its establishment in 1874. Map of the Hundred of Wallaroo, 1895, showing the township on the northern coast. The Corporate Town of Wallaroo was a local government area in South Australia from 1874 to 1997, centred on the ...
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The black wallaroo ( O. bernardus) occupies an area of steep, rocky ground in Arnhem Land. At around 60 to 70 cm (24 to 28 inches) in length (excluding tail) it is the smallest wallaroo and the most heavily built. Males weigh 19 to 22 kg (42 to 49 lb), females about 13 kg (29 lb). Because it is very wary and is found only in a small area of ...
Wallaroo, New South Wales. / 35.13556°S 149.01056°E / -35.13556; 149.01056. Wallaroo is a rural locality in New South Wales close to the Australian Capital Territory . It lies north of the Australian Capital Territory border, north west of Hall, west of the Barton Highway, and east of the Murrumbidgee River.
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Wallaroo Mines miners in 1900. In 1889–90, the Wallaroo and Moonta Mines merged to form the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company, becoming the largest industrial operation in South Australia. [7] Prior to their amalgamation, the Wallaroo Mine had produced 491,934 tonnes of copper, valued at £2,229,096, with dividends of £430,254.
Wallaroo is a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, 160 kilometres (100 mi) northwest of Adelaide.It is one of the three Copper Triangle towns famed for their historic shared copper mining industry, and known together as "Little Cornwall", the other two being Kadina, about 8 kilometres (5 mi) to the east, and Moonta, about 18 kilometres (11 mi) south.