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Cobar Peneplain
Cobar Peneplain, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in New South Wales,IBRA Version 6.1 data and comprises . The bioregion has the code COP. There are five subregions. See also *Geography of Australia
The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while comprising the territory of the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated alon ...
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Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation For Australia
The Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) is a biogeographic regionalisation of Australia developed by the Australian government's Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities. It was developed for use as a planning tool, for example for the establishment of a national reserve system. The first version of IBRA was developed in 1993–94 and published in 1995. Within the broadest scale, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ... is a major part of the Australasia biogeographic realm, as developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Based on this system, the world is also split into 14 terrestrial habitats, of which eight are shared by Australia. The Australian land mass is divided into 89 bioregions and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geography Of Australia
The geography of Australia encompasses a wide variety of biogeographic regions being the world's smallest continent, while comprising the territory of the sixth-largest country in the world. The population of Australia is concentrated along the eastern and south-eastern coasts. The geography of the continent is extremely diverse, ranging from the snow-capped mountains of the Australian Alps and Tasmania to large deserts, tropical and temperate forests, grasslands, heathlands and woodlands. The countries that govern nearby regions include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the east; and New Zealand to the southeast. Physical geography Australia is a continent and an island located in Oceania between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. It shares its name with the country that claims control over it. Properly called the Commonwealth of Australia, its territory cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lachlan Plains
Lachlan may refer to: People * Lachlan (name), masculine name. Places * Several places in New South Wales, Australia, named for Lachlan Macquarie. For a more complete list, see Places named after Macquarie ** Electoral district of Lachlan, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales, Australia ** Electoral district of Lachlan and Lower Darling, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in New South Wales, Australia ** Lachlan River, a river in central New South Wales, Australia ** Lachlan Shire, a local government area in the central west of New South Wales, Australia ** Lachlan Valley Railway, a rail preservation society based at Cowra, New South Wales, Australia ** Lachlan Valley Way, a state highway in New South Wales, Australia ** Upper Lachlan Shire, a local government area in the state of New South Wales, Australia * Lachlan, Tasmania, a locality * Lachlan Fold Belt * Lachlan Island Other * Clan Maclachlan, a Scottish clan which is so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nymagee
Nymagee is a small town in the north west of New South Wales, north west of Sydney, south west of Nyngan and south of Cobar. It is in the Shire of Cobar, The State Government area of Barwon and the Federal Government area of Parkes. At the 2016 census, Nymagee had a population of 101. An area, COP4, of around Nymagee has also been designated as an IBRA biogeographic subregion of the Cobar Peneplain biogeographic region. History Indigenous originsdit sourceThe Cobar area is part of the traditional territory of the Wongaibon people (within the Ngiyampaa language group associated with the arid plains and rocky hill country of the Central West area of NSW bordered by the Lachlan, Darling-Barwon and Bogan rivers). The name ‘Cobar’ is derived from a Ngiyampaa word – variously transcribed as kubbur, kuparr, gubarr or cuburra – for a water-hole and quarry where pigments of ochre, kaolin and blue and green copper minerals were mined for ceremonial use. 5] Other sources cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canbelego Downs
Canbelego is a village in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. It is now virtually a ghost town but was once a much larger settlement associated with the Mount Boppy Gold Mine. At the 2016 census, the population of Canbelego, including its surrounding area, was 39, but the village itself had only four residents in early 2020. In 1905, the population had been around 1,500, with around 300 of these being employees of the mine. Between 1907 and 1917, the population was around 2,000. Location It is located approximately 640 km north-west of Sydney, 50 km east of Cobar and 5km south of the nearest point on the Barrier Highway. History Aboriginal and early settler history The area now known as Canbelego is part of the traditional lands of the Wangaaypuwan dialect speakers (also known as Wangaibon) of the Ngiyampaa people. The Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell and his expedition had camped and obtained water, in early 1845, at a place that he called "Canbelego" bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnato Downs
Barnato is a British-Jewish surname of Italian origin. It may refer to: *Barney Barnato (born Barnett Isaacs) (1851–1897), a South African mine owner *Woolf Barnato Joel Woolf BarnatoPronounced Barnatoo – from Barnett too (27 September 1895 – 27 July 1948) was a British financier and racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. He achieved three consecutive wins out of three entries in the ... (Joel Woolf "Babe" Barnato), (1895–1948), a car racer, son of Barney Barnato * Diana Barnato Walker (1918–2008), an aviator, daughter of Woolf Barnato {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of Australia
The states and territories are federated state, federated administrative divisions in Australia, ruled by regional governments that constitute the second level of governance between the Australian Government, federal government and local government in Australia, local governments. States are self-governance, self-governing polity, polities with incomplete sovereignty (having ceded some sovereign rights to federation) and have their own state constitution (Australia), constitutions, legislatures, ministry (government department), departments, and certain civil authority, civil authorities (e.g. Judiciary of Australia#State and territory courts and tribunals, judiciary and state police#Australia, law enforcement) that administer and deliver most public policy, public policies and programs. Territories can be autonomous administrative division, autonomous and administer local policies and programs much like the states in practice, but are still constitutionally and financially su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darling Riverine Plains
The Darling Riverine Plains is an interim Australian bioregion located in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales. It has an area of . South Eastern Queensland bioregion is part of the Southeast Australia temperate savanna ecoregion. Subregions The Darling Riverine Plains bioregion consists of nine subregions: * Culgoa-Bokhara (DRP01) – * Warrambool-Moonie (DRP02) – * Castlereagh-Barwon (DRP03) – * Bogan-Macquarie (DRP04) – * Louth Plains (DRP05) – * Wilcannia Plains (DRP06) – * Menindee Menindee (frequently but erroneously spelled "Menindie" ) is a small town in the far west of New South Wales, Australia, in Central Darling Shire, on the banks of the Darling River, with a sign-posted population of 980 and a population of 551. ... (DRP07) – * Great Darling Anabranch (DRP08) – * Pooncarie-Darling (DRP09) – References Biogeography of Queensland Biogeography of New South Wales IBRA regions Murray-Darling basin {{Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of Australia
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the prime minister, the ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (lower house) and Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal territories, the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Australian monarch, currently King Charles III, is represented by the governor-general. The Australian Government in its exe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of The Environment And Water Resources
The Minister for Resources is an Australian Government cabinet position which is currently held by Madeleine King following the swearing in of the full Albanese ministry on 1 June 2022. In the Government of Australia, the ministers administer this portfolio through the Department of Industry, Science and Resources. Mission and outcomes Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements, in the department's annual reports and on the department's website. At its creation, the department was responsible for: *Environment protection and conservation of biodiversity *Air Quality *National fuel quality standards *Land contamination *Meteorology *Administration of the Australian Antarctic Territory and the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands *Natural, built and movable cultural heritage *Greenhouse policy coordination *Environmental research * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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