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Australia at a glance - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia is a unique and diverse country in every way - in culture, population, climate, geography, and history. For articles on specific topics about Australian history and culture visit our Australian Stories Index. Australia's population is concentrat...

Australia's fossil past - Australia's Culture Portal

Riversleigh, north-west Queensland, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is recognised as one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh and Narracoote (SA) fo...

National parks - Australia's Culture Portal

Blue Lake, Kosciuszko National Park. Australia has over 500 national parks. Most of our national parks are managed by the States and Territories of Australia; however the Commonwealth of Australia manages six national parks and a further 13 marine parks...

Zoos in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

However, the first zoo in Australia, Melbourne Zoo, wasn't established until 1862. Taronga Zoo and Western Plains Zoo are jointly administered New South Wales public zoos. The zoo features both Australian native species and exotic species of mammals, bi...

Aboriginal trackers - Australia's Culture Portal

With mounting evidence and stories circulating about their seemingly miraculous ability to find people, Aboriginal trackers' abilities became legendary in the minds of white Australians. Paul Raffaele, Aboriginal tracker Teddy Egan and son. The Australi...

Crossing the Great Dividing Range—surveying an ancient land - Australia's Culture Portal

Ernest Revell, Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, c. Sir Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855), Part of New South Wales from the summit of Jellore, 1839, lithograph print. In March 1812, the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore ...

Australian rivers - Australia's Culture Portal

Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...

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Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum   (more info)

Situated in Bathurst, in central New South Wales, the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum is the home of the internationally renowned Sommerville Collection of rare minerals and fossils. The Museum also has a temporary exhibition space which has a changi

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Australian Fossil Mammal Site - Riversleigh - World Heritage - Queensland - more information   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

Over 2000 kilometres separate the Naracoorte and Riversleigh sites, which form the World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Site. Riversleigh is one of the world's richest Oligo-Miocene mammal records, linking that period (15-25 million years ago) to the ...

Australian Fossil Mammal Site - Naracoorte - World Heritage - South Australia   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

Both the Naracoorte and Riversleigh sites provide evidence separately of key stages in the evolution of the fauna of Australia - the world's most isolated continent. The Naracoorte Fossil Mammal Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The ...

Australian Fossil Mammal Site - Riversleigh - World Heritage - Queensland   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

Both the Naracoorte and Riversleigh sites provide evidence separately of key stages in the evolution of the fauna of Australia - the world's most isolated continent. The Riversleigh Fossil Mammal Site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The...

Australian plant fossils - A brief bibliography   (website Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) )

Stewart, WN 1983, Paleobotany and the evolution of plants, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. White, ME 1988, Australia´s fossil plants, Reed, Frenchs Forest, NSW. ISBN 0730103900 Describes the evolution of Australia´s flora, with over 400 colour phot...

Fossil sites   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Murgon Nestling in the rolling green hills of south-eastern Queensland, under the shadow of the basalt-capped Boat Mountain, is one of the most remarkable fossil deposits in the world. Riversleigh The hot dry savanna of north-western Queensland is the un...

Western Australian Museum - Vertibrate Fossils   (website Western Australian Museum )

The large collection of vertebrate fossils, ranges from the world's oldest fishes, dating back 480 million years through to the abundant Pleistocene mammals found in caves throughout Western Australia. Notable are our large collections of Devonian fishes ...

Western Australian Museum - Fossils and gem stones   (website Western Australian Museum )

The Western Australian Museum Shop has a large range of fossils and gem stones available in store. - A coiled, flat, chambered fossil shell of an extinct cephalopod mollusc that was abundant in the Cretaceous Period. Trilobite - Trilobites are extinct an...

Western Australian Museum Invertibrate Fossils   (website Western Australian Museum )

Natural ScienceMinerals & RocksMeteorites & TektitesInvertebrate FossilsVertebrate FossilsBirds, Mammals, Reptiles & FrogsInsectsSpiders & ScorpionsWormsShells, Slugs, Squid and other MolluscsCrabs, Prawns, Barnacles & other CrustaceansFishesSpongesSea St...

Western Australian Museum - Geology/Fossils   (website Western Australian Museum )

> A full colour guide for tourists and amateur geologists describing the formation and the history of the bizarre formations of the Pinnacles Desert in Nambung National Park. The Wollemi Pine The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil from the Age of t...

Australian Fossil Mammal Site - Naracoorte World Heritage Values   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australia's heritage )

The Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994. The World Heritage criteria against which the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte) was listed remain the formal criteria for ...

Australian Dinosaur Story, Australian dinosaur fossil locations   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts    Australia's heritage )

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Australian Fossil Mammal Site - Naracoorte - World Heritage - South Australia - more information   (website(s) Our House: Histories of Australian homes    Australia's heritage )

Over 2000 kilometres separate the Naracoorte (South Australia) and Riversleigh (Queensland) sites, which form the World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Site. The site at Naracoorte, South Australia, covers 300 hectares and is located in flat country, p...