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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...
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,...
Image courtesy of the Snowy Hydro. The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme is by far the largest engineering project ever undertaken in Australia. What is the Snowy Mountains Scheme? ...
Harold Pierce Cazneaux (1878-1953) is regarded as Australia's leading pictorial or art photographer. Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953), Spirit of Endurance, 1937, photograph, 510 x 635mm. Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953), The quest: portrait of Rainbow Cazneaux, 1...
Portrait of Henry Lawson by Sir John Longstaff. Colin Roderick , who published a biography of Lawson called Henry Lawson: a life, suggests that Lawson suffered from manic depression and sought refuge from his mood swings in alcohol. Much of Lawson's work...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
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Brief introduction to the "First Australians" and the Bundjalung clans of the Northern Rivers area in north-eastern New South Wales, and other human settlement of the region, from Byron Bay to the Gold Coast and west to Tabulum.
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Australian rivers - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture Portal )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, known through Banjo Patterson's poem The Man from Snowy River. Other major ...
The Goulburn is the most important Victorian tributary to the Murray River. This section is typical of many rivers in the Murray-Darling basin. Unfortunately, its use as merely a supply channel for irrigation using water from the very large man made Lak...
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has said no to the Traveston Dam project, Bligh says desalination plants will replace dam, Exam papers burnt in Mt Gravatt school fire. THE proposed $1.8 billion Traveston Dam in Queensland has been quashed to protect en...
FLOODED RIVER RED GUM Plants cope with the changing conditions of river banks in times of drought, and of flood. DAMS KILL RIPARIAN FRINGES The red gum thrives on periodic flooding, but when dams or weirs are constructed and the water backs up behind the...
Australian Landscape & Nature Photography by Michael Boniwell To buy prints select a thumbnail. For commercial stock or commissioned work contact michael@bendigoIT.com.au PH: 03 5444 9503. >Michael is also available for Commissioned Photography Assignme...
This manual provides practical advice on how to calculate and interpret a SIGNAL 2 score. It includes a brief introduction to the relevance of aquatic macroinvertebrates in river and stream assessment, and some advice on sampling and identification. Mos...
700 athlete scholarships are offered annually at the AIS. 263 current and former AIS athletes competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. 142 Olympic medals have been won by athletes from the AIS since its establishment....
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TITLE Australian Aboriginal Art - Alligator Rivers area, Northern Territory AUTHOR EDWARDS, Robert DESCRIPTION The aboriginal rock art in the vast Alligators Rivers region of Northern Territory. If you would like further info please use our REQUEST FORM ...
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700 athlete scholarships are offered annually at the AIS. 263 current and former AIS athletes competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. 142 Olympic medals have been won by athletes from the AIS since its establishment....
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