Dharmae: Katarapko Creek Oral History collection (Talking Fish project)

This item represents a Study Region in Dharmae, the UTS Data Hub of
Australian Research on Marine and Aquatic Ecocultures.

The data from this study region includes 8 oral histories (audio as mp3s, and transcripts) and 5 image galleries, as well as a georeferenced hand-drawn map of the area.

Once known as Crabb’s Creek, Katarapko Creek is a small anabranch of the Murray River, located between the towns of Berri and Loxton in the Riverland region of South Australia. Its 9,000 hectare grey clay floodplain is covered with blackbox, saltbush and lignum. The creek’s horseshoe lagoons, marshes and islands are the traditional lands of the Meru peoples.

Today, Katarapko’s red gum and river coobahͲlined waters leave the Murray near Lock and Weir 4, rejoining the river 16km later. Katarapko has seen many changes as its waters were blocked, floodplains grazed, and surrounding irrigation districts flourished. Berri Evaporation Basin and Katarapko Island Disposal Basin have both taken a toll as they collected salty irrigation drainage water.

(Source: Frawley, J., Nichols, S., Goodall, H. and Baker, E. 2011. Katarapko: Talking fish, making connections with the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin. Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.)

本数据集代表澳大利亚海洋与水产生态养殖研究（Australian Research on Marine and Aquatic Ecocultures）的UTS数据中心（UTS Data Hub）下属的达迈（Dharmae）项目中的研究区域。

该研究区域的数据集包含8份口述历史资料（含mp3格式音频及对应转录文本）、5个图像图库，以及一幅地理配准的该区域手绘地图。

卡塔帕克溪（Katarapko Creek）曾名克拉布溪（Crabb’s Creek），是墨累河（Murray River）的小型分流河道，坐落于南澳大利亚州河地（Riverland）地区的贝里镇（Berri）与洛克斯顿镇（Loxton）之间。其9000公顷的灰黏土泛滥平原上覆盖着黑桉（blackbox）、滨藜（saltbush）与多枝蓼（lignum）。该溪的马蹄形泻湖、沼泽与岛屿为梅鲁族（Meru peoples）的传统领地。

如今，卡塔帕克溪沿岸生长着红桉与河滨库巴树，其水流在4号拦河堰附近脱离墨累河，16公里后重新汇入干流。卡塔帕克溪历经诸多变迁：河道被截流、泛滥平原被放牧、周边灌区蓬勃发展。贝里蒸发盆地（Berri Evaporation Basin）与卡塔帕克岛处置盆地（Katarapko Island Disposal Basin）因收集含盐灌溉排水，均对当地生态造成了负面影响。

（资料来源：Frawley, J.、Nichols, S.、Goodall, H. 与 Baker, E.，2011年。《卡塔帕克：谈鱼，与墨累-达令流域水系建立联结》，堪培拉：墨累-达令流域管理局（Murray-Darling Basin Authority））