Location
SPREP LIBRARY
FIJI
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Publication Year:
1979
Publication Place
Sydney, Australia
Physical Description:
170 p. : some ill. ; 32 cm
Call Number
333.78099 SOU vol.I [EL]
272/921 SEC
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
1408
Legacy PEIN ID:
41249
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Protected areas - Oceania - Pacific
Environment - Protection - Samoa
Parks and reserves - Management
Conservation of natural resources - Oceania - Congresses
Environmental conservation - Oceania - Congresses
Environmental policy - Oceania - Congresses
Protected areas - Oceania - Congresses
Biodiversity - Protection
Biological diversity - Management
Protected areas
Protected areas - Oceania
Protected areas - Management
Reserves
Reserves - Oceania - Pacific
Abstract
A transect through the Australian continent from east to west at its greatest breadth, would show a narrow easterly belt of coastal plain. This plain, extending north and south along the whole east coast, is well watered by rivers. It is of variable width, seldom more than one hundred kilometres, and occasionally only a few kilometres. Bordering the western margin of this plain is the Great Dividing Range, which extends from the north of Queensland to the south of New South Wales, and thence one branch sweeps westward towards the boundary of Victoria and South Australia, and the other, the main branch, terminates in Tasmania. This range, which often arises abruptly from the plain, frequently presents steep escarpments on its eastern face, but the descent on its western slopes is gradual, until, in the country to the north of Spencers Gulf, South Australia, the inland plain is below sea-level in some places. Thence there is another almost imperceptible rise until the mountain ranges of Western Australia are reached, and beyond these lies another coastal plain.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
FIJI
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
Publication Year:
1979
Publication Place
Sydney, Australia
Physical Description:
170 p. : some ill. ; 32 cm
Call Number
333.78099 SOU vol.I [EL]
272/921 SEC
Collection
Language
English
Record ID:
1408
Legacy PEIN ID:
41249
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 20-Nov-2000
Record Modified: 22-Feb-2021