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"Nullarbor" is actually not an Aboriginal word. It is a Latin word meaning "no tree". Null = Nil, Arbor = Tree.Therefore, the Nullarbor Plain was named by Europeans, specifically E.Alfred Delisser, who surveryed the Nullarbor in 1866.

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