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Antarctica and Sir Douglas Mawson - Australia's Culture PortalMawson ice edge, © Australian Antarctic Division, 2006, Kingston Tasmania 7050. Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian who led a series of expeditions to Antarctica. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) 1911-14 was an important scie...
Mount Kosciuszko is part of the Great Dividing Range. Other rock structures in Australia, like Uluru, Mount Augustus and Bald Rock, have been described as monoliths. Uluru is located in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park about 335km to the south-west of ...
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...
This includes Pleistocene era Aboriginal body fossils, many of which were removed and sent overseas. Riversleigh, north-west Queensland, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. The Riversleigh fossil site, near Mount Isa Queensland, is reco...
Image courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. Lawrence Hargrave, who achieved the first powered flight in 1894 with four box kites, was said to be symbolic of many Australian inventors and Australian innovation; 'He was interested in the invention, not th...
World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. However, Australia is actually made up of more than 8,000 islands, including the island state of Tasmania. Norfolk Island is located far off the east coast of Australia. ...
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...
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The natural history, national parks and reserves of the Northern Rivers - Gold Coast region of north-eastern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. Includes geology, rainforests, flora and fauna, World Heritage and general information.
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14 - Elements of Structural Geology 1946-1982 - Edwin Sherbon Hills Guide to Records (website Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre )Agreements and correspondence relating to the preparation and revision of Elements of Structural Geology. Inward and outward correspondence with Methuen & Co. Ltd relating to the preparation and publication of the first edition, as well as subsequent rep...
Correspondence relating to the preparation of Outlines of Structural Geology, particularly a proposed fourth edition. Inward and outward correspondence with Methuen & Co. Ltd relating to the publication of the three editions of Outlines of Structural Geo...
'1.0' encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no" ? OGC:WMS OGC Web Map Server maintained by the Australian Government: Geoscience Australia (www.ga.gov.au). High-quality Australia-wide geoscience mapping data. See www.ga.gov.au/products for free downloads of ...
Ross Annabell ISBN: 0727002627Seal Books / Rigby Limited Australia 1977 Paperback 173 pages. Weber, Holmes, Summers, Anderson, Grandison ISBN: 0732279062Collins Australia 2004 ReprintSmall Format Soft Cover Black pen mark on bottom of page edges. Asimov...
Ross Annabell ISBN: 0727002627Seal Books / Rigby Limited Australia 1977 Paperback 173 pages. Weber, Holmes, Summers, Anderson, Grandison ISBN: 0732279062Collins Australia 2004 ReprintSmall Format Soft Cover Black pen mark on bottom of page edges. Asimov...
Miller, William J ISBN: NoISBNVan Nostrand NY 1947 8vo - over 7æ" - 9æ" tall Hard Cover B/w photographs, line drawings, maps. J Bundred Buttersworths London 1969 1st Ed8vo - over 7æ" - 9æ" tall Hard Back Inscript on FFEP, o/w VG. Henderson, P. L. -- Edi...
Tectonic plate collisions were in part responsible for bursts of marine biodiversity across the planet over the past 50 million years, say an international team of marine scientists. The oxygen-rich atmosphere that sustains life on earth may have develope...
The Chair of Geology (Research in Geology) was established at the University of Melbourne in 1963 when E. S. Hills, previously Professor of Geology and Minerology, became first Professor of Geology (Research in Geology). Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - cl...
Otherwise known as Geology and Minerology until 1968, the Department of Geology was established at the University of Melbourne in 1900, after the death of McCoy. Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields. Published by Aus...
The interpretation was produced with reference to the mapped outcrop geology from the 1983 "Geological Map of Jackson, W.A.", 1:250 000 scale map, Geological Survey of Western Australia. Polygons were given names based on geological formation names as us...
This dataset is an interpretation of geology of the Barlee 1:250000 Sheet area based on airborne geophysics and gravity data, Proterozoic geology plus magnetic units in overlying cover rocks. Polygons were given names based on geological formation names a...
This dataset is an interpretation of geology of the Boulia 1:250000 Sheet area based on airborne geophysics and gravity data, Proterozoic geology plus magnetic units in overlying cover rocks. This map presents an interpretation of the geology of the Bouli...
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