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Ross River

-19.2692°S 146.8356°E · Q2717931

One English word in this atlas traces back to Ross River. It sits in Australia.

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Ross River fevernoun · 20th century
Well attested

Named for a small river in Townsville where the virus was first trapped.

The virus was isolated in 1959 from mosquitoes collected along the Ross River in northern Queensland. The disease occurs right across Australia and into the Pacific, so the name marks a collecting site rather than a range.

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