Collowgullouric War

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Collowgullouric War — the Boorong name for the great red star in the Keel, the wife of War the Crow (Canopus); it is identified with Eta Carinae, which in the 1840s flared into one of the brightest stars in the sky and then faded — a star whose change the Boorong saw and named. — Boorong (Wergaia), rec. Stanbridge 1857