Barbie is Australian slang for barbecue and the phrase slip a shrimp on the barbie, for Americans, often evokes images of a fun social gathering under the sun. Australians, however, invariably use the word prawn rather than shrimp.
Alsea, Oregon. Alsea is an unincorporated community in Benton County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is on Oregon Route 34 and the Alsea River. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Alsea as a census-designated place (CDP).
While located across the Columbia River from Clatsop County, Knappton's history is linked to it by salmon canning, recreational fisheries and the Quarantine Station, which was linked to the US Public Health Service office and its physicians in Astoria. Brown, Emma Lee, ed. Oregon: Clatsop County.