... natural divider in the form of a mountain range. With a unique height of 4,000 feet, the Great Dividing Range, or Eastern Highlands, separates the coast from the inland territory. But, there is one peak in all of Australia that surpasses these tall mountains. The peak of Mount Kosciusko stands taller than ... Dampier landed, but was not impressed with resources. It was not until 1770, when Captain James Cook discovered the east coast, which was very fertile. He sailed North to the coast, and claimed the territory for Great Britain. Soon enough, in 1788, the first British settlement was ma...

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Costa Rica Set in Central America, with both a Pacific and Caribbean coast line, Costa Rica is the jewel of Central America. The country's beautiful natural attractions, wildlife, and knowledge of the extreme friendliness of the Ticos, as the Costa Rican's call themselves, ... aren't very dominant but appear throughout the nation . Costa Rica also homes the land full of a variety of landscapes. As one travels through the country he/she would encounter the coast lines of both the Caribbean and the Pacific, mountainous regions, rivers, rainforests, and even volcanoes . Costa Rica's countryside...

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... the next target of Japan. The Kokoda Trail stretches for almost 200 kilometers between the New Guinea capital city, Port Moresby, on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea, and the towns of Papua New Guinea's northern coast. The rough trail cuts through the towering Owen Stanley Range the sloping mountains of which are so steep in places that it requires mountaineering ... , when it rains, water and mud run down the mountainsides in torrents, The village of Kokoda lies along the trail, approximately halfway between Buna on the north coast and Port Moresby on the south coast. Kokada was t...

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... Australia experiences a wide variety of climates. In the north, the continent's immense interior gives way to hot, wet monsoonal tropical regions. The southeast coast, where most of Australia's population lives, is cooler and drier. The southwest is very hot and dry in the summer, but milder and wetter in ... people traveled to the Australian continent about 40,000 years ago. A short while later, Aborigines landed in canoes and rafts on the north coast of Australia and then moved southward across the rest of the continent. Aborigines were nomads living in family clans, each with its own...

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... before 1788, Makassan fishermen from the east-Indonesian archipelago, fishing for (trepang) began voyages to Arnhem Land. It is thought that the fishermen of Makassar had been visiting the north coast of Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland from as early as the 16th century. Aboriginal cave paintings also illustrate the traditional Makassan sailing boats. In 1803, Matthew Flinders recorded the ... the Gulf of Carpentaria. Dutch contact with the Islanders was almost non existence accept for some isolated incidences .The Dutch thought the Strait was simply one more indent ...

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... land: 6% permanent crops: 0% permanent pastures: 54% forests and woodland: 19% other: 21% (1993 est.) Irrigated land: 21,070 sq km (1993 est.) Natural hazards: cyclones along the coast; severe droughts Environment - current issues: soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices; soil salinity rising due to the use of poor quality water; desertification; clearing for ... agricultural purposes threatens the natural habitat of many unique animal and plant species; the Great Barrier Reef off the northeast coast, the largest coral reef in the ...

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... allows more sunlight to reach it without it being too tall. The Jumping Cholla can reach eight feet at its most mature state. It is found growing from the pacific coast of southern California to central Baja México. It is found in parts of Arizona as well. Mountainous Regions and Plants Within Plants living in mountainous regions have many adaptations ... plant is a plant that grows in the mountains. Its favorite habitat is the pine needle covered floor of the middle elevation to the highest in the forests along the west coast. It doesn't necessarily only survive in snow, but it can su...

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... " Australia's coastline measures over 36000 kilometres. About 85 per cent of the population live in coastal towns or cities. More than 25 per cent live within 3 kilometres of the coast. The coast is important as a natural and human resource. Many people use coasts for recreation as well as industries, fishing locations and ports, but not many people realise that coasts are constantly ... ...

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... came in the Battle for the Kokoda trail, in which a seriously outnumbered Australian force took on the advancing Japanese forces from the north coast on their quest for taking over Port Moresby. The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. This was the first ... ...

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... the steep cliffs of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney and the tall, graceful, eroded volcanic plugs of the Glasshouse Mountains north of Brisbane, to flat plains on the southern coast west of Adelaide. The Murray and Darling Rivers, the longest river system in Australia, form the Murray-Darling Basin covering more than one million square kilometers or 14 per cent ... less than 125 mm annually. The wettest regions are in the tropical northeast and in the southwest of Tasmania. However, Australia does have well-watered fertile areas close to the coast, where the bulk of the population is ...

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... 's main urban centres. These estimates were developed for the National Bandwidth Inquiry and are regarded as conservative. Seven international fibre optic cable networks link Sydney via the east and west coast of Australia to the US, Europe and Asia. Sydney, a major Internet-Exchange Point and telecommunications hub, is serviced by deep sea underwater cables that link to a domestic network of high ... -speed metro and Intra-city fibre cables. The Southern Cross cable, which became operational in November 2000, has two landing points in Sydney linking Australia with the west coast of the U...

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... , isolate Australia. Therefore the security of Australia would depend on the battle for Port Moresby, because if it were captured by the Japanese then they could strike at the north coast of Queensland whenever they were ready. Also if they captured Fiji then they could extend their air and naval bases which would then allow them to disrupt the lines of ... the Kokoda Track to secure Buna. The ranges they were talking about and the key to Japan's attack, were the Owen Stanley Ranges which started in Buna on the north coast of Papua and went up the slopes to Kokoda. The track was approxim...

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... Harbor in Hawaii, Whitlam registered with the Royal Australian Air Force. Whitlam served as a pilot and was steady for a majority of the war at Gove, on the eastern Arnhem Land coast of the Northern Territory. Family life and Early political career (1945-1952)By 1947 the Whitlam family had two small children. Whitlam stood for the local government election for the ... ...

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... in the Caribbean. In Central America, rainforests still grow in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize, Costa Rica, and Panama. In Africa, rainforests occur in two main blocks- one along the south coast of West Africa and one centered in the country of Zaire. Businesses probably value the African rainforests most for the beautiful species of hardwood trees that grow there. Loggers have ... ...

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... exploitation has become a major problem which was originally dismissed by these Trans National Corporations when administering the changes in advertisement and locating their production lines in countries with low manufacturing coast to benefit their companies. Globalisation can be a very productive thing when it introduces beneficial technology and products into under developed countries, but this can wreck havoc with the traditional culture ... ...

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... never drink, instead, they obtain all their water from the breakdown of the seeds they eat. Hot deserts can be found in the southwest of the United States, along the coast of South America, in northern Africa, and in the Middle East. There are cold deserts to the west of the Rocky Mountains, in eastern Argentina and throughout central Asia. They ... ...

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... in the early 1900's, resulting in a building boom. Many of these classical 19th and 18th century buildings have hence been devoured by newer architecture. Orientation Perth lies on the western coast of Australia, a bit to the south. The Inner city is situated around the Swan River. Perth is quite compact and well planned, witch makes it fairly easy to get around ... ...

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... lead to a collapse of their society as seen the aboriginal culture of Australia (Hall, 1995:240-242). Secondly, the Increases in crime and prostitution in such centers as the gold coast and Cairns have also been associated with the increase in tourism (Hall, 1995:236). Lastly, the harmful effects can be termed as follows flora and fauna, water, air, soil and ... ...

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... ) served in units of Torres Strait Force. The units were raised to defend the Torres Strait - to enable the use of the vital strait as a shipping route from the East Coast to Darwin. These men were only paid 1/3 the rate of their non-Indigenous mates, and this underpayment was illegal. Fifty tribal Yolgnu men from East Arnhem Land served in the ... ...

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... from the beginning or being the earliest of its type in an area. ~Physical Enviroment: From Australia which is known asthe worlds great island continent?. Cyclones are common around the coast, as are severe draughts throughout the land. Current enviroment issues are soil erosion from overgrazing, industrial development, urbanization, and poor farming practices. Soil salinity rising due to the use of ... ...

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... question is the Tasmanian Tiger, a striped marsupial like wolf. Its closest relative is the Tasmanian Devil, and the taillike features of a kangaroo. The tiger was an inhabitant of Australia's southeastern coast island, Tasmania. It was said that the population of the Tasmanian Tiger was the victim of tiger trapping; a very prosperous trade back in the late 1800's due to the British ... ...

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... in the early 1900's, resulting in a building boom. Many of these classical 19th and 18th century buildings have hence been devoured by newer architecture. Orientation Perth lies on the western coast of Australia, a bit to the south. The Inner city is situated around the Swan River. Perth is quite compact and well planned, witch makes it fairly easy to get around ... ...

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... be investigated by you. Barrow Island has a unique place in Western Australia's history, geography and social development. Barrow Island is located in the Carnarvon Basin, 55kms off the North West coast of Western Australia; it is one of the last remainders of what Australia was like prior to European invasion. On the 18th February 1910 it was proclaimed a "permanent reserve class ... ...

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... natives, Cook successfully observed the transit of Venus in Tahiti. Cook stayed in King George island for three months, not only observing the transit of Venus, but mapping out Tahiti Coast. The transit of Venus was not heading to New Zealand., they were told to sail between the latitudes of 35 degrees and 40degrees south until they site the land discovered ... ...

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... a lot of fun. Also there are pearly white beaches all around this place, which to me is something very enticing. I've always been a "beach" person, having grown up surfing the coast of Brazil. I find that I"m attracted to beaches, particularly ones that are distant and far-off; unexplored territory. But that's not Ibiza. The beaches there have crystal water and are all ... ...

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