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Australian fauna - Australia's Culture PortalAlmost all of Australia's native mammals are marsupials. There are only two types of monotreme in the world - the platypus and the echidna - and both of them are found in Australia. Platypuses are found all along the eastern coast of Australia, from Tas...
One of Australia's greatest treasures is her flora - a staggering 24,000 species of native plants have been identified compared to England's 1700 native plants. Australia's native plants vary across the many different natural environments of the country....
Kakadu National Park covers an area of 19,804 square kilometres within the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory. Around 50 per cent of the land in Kakadu National Park is Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) ...
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,...
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...
While Australia has no single uniform national costume, an Australian national dress style, based on specific local dress styles, has emerged in response to climate, lifestyle and identity. An Australian style can be seen clearly in the main types of loc...
A wide variety of Australian fashion textiles - hand-coloured, printed and painted silks, woven wool, dyed discharge and devore prints, ground velvets, and ochred designs based on traditional Aboriginal body paintings have all contributed to the definitio...
Nicola Finetti, Dress of silk georgette, silk chiffon and metallic embroidery on silk organza. Fashion can be defined by colour, cut, cloth, garment type, garment styles and interpretation of looks. Chinese silk embroidered shawls and Chinese surcoats b...
John Glover (1767-1849), Australian landscape with cattle: the artist's property Patterdale , c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an2253188. The Heidelberg School was the first significant art movement in Australia. ...
Employing dream imagery, poetry and precarious juxtapositions, Australian artists in the 1930s and early 1940s responded to European surrealists and were part of an international surrealist movement - 'in all its clarity'. Many of Australia's best known a...
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Information on Australia's birds, mammals, and insects. Includes photos, an Australian fauna quiz, and amazing animal facts.
Homepage of artist Glenn Woodley, featuring acrylic paintings, cyber drawings and digital photos of Australian landscapes, fauna, and cave art.
Limited edition handpainted linocuts by Lynette Weir with a focus on Australian flora and fauna.
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Overview of the Impacts of Feral Cats on Australian Native Fauna. Dickman, Chris R.. Fine Print Books (website Bookshops.com.au - your guide to Australian Bookshops )Browse Books Browse Bookshops About Us Resources Sell Your Books List Your Bookshop Register Author: Dickman, Chris R.: ISBN: 0642213798 Description: Canberra; Australian Nature Conservation Agency, 1996 92ppBook Number: 59720Keywords: australia australi...
Almost all of Australia's native mammals are marsupials. There are only two types of monotreme in the world - the platypus and the echidna - and both of them are found in Australia. Platypuses are found all along the eastern coast of Australia, from Tas...
Comprehensive Western Australian guide to building environmentally friendly gardens to attract frogs and other native creatures. Outstanding colour illustrations, distribution maps and clear, informative descriptions, including behavior, development, fee...
The Mid West region, stretching from the desert to the sea and the islands of the Abrolhos, has a diversity of landscapes, wildflowers and wildlife. The largest gallery in the Museum explores the wonders of this natural diversity, as well as exploring th...
Nominated name: 'The reduction in the biodiversity of Australian native ground fauna due to the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (fire ant).' The potential impacts of the fire ant in Australia are essentially unknown and are extrapolated fr...
About the books> The Fauna of Australia collate and present the vast array of knowledge on Australia's fauna in a readily understandable form. Of the originally conceived 10 volume series, only 5 volumes were published. From 1981–1994 this series ...
>This Atlas contains a distribution map for each member of the snake family Elapidae found in Australia. The family contains all the front-fanged, venomous, terrestrial snakes in Australia, representing some 77 species. Several of the world's deadliest ...
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