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    The Flinders Ranges The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia. located in outback South Australia about 200 kilometres north from the city of Adelaide (125 miles). The Flinders ranges stretch for over 430 kilometres. Starting at Port Pirie and ending near lake Callabonna 120 kilometers from Cameron corner, the junction of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. How where the ranges formed? Believe it or not about 8oo million years ago the Ranges where nearly completely under water. In that period great forces of nature and tectonic plates lifted the entire east coast of Australia out of the water. This created a deep inland hollow. Over the next million years the sea began to flow in leaving…

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    Sydney Opera House Essay

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    for the roof. In 1961 the design team found a solution. The solution was to create the shells out of sections from a sphere, which could be made from a common sphere mould. The shells are held up by ‘ribs’ and panels inside the building. This stage cost approximately $12.5Million. The third and final stage started in 1966; the Interior. The interior of the Sydney Opera House was the most expensive part of the construction, costing over $55 Million. In 1965 there was a change of government and…

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    The contentious debate over New South Wales government’s decisions to introduce new lockout laws has been heating over the past months. However, amidst the disagreement, Kings Cross has seen a 32 percent reduction in assaults since the laws were passed, while assaults in the Sydney CBD have fallen 26 percent according to the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR). The NSW Government has introduced new laws that close Sydney’s music clubs to new guests at 1:30am and ban selling…

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    (Wearne 1980). In 1883 New South Wales established the Aboriginal Protection Board (Dudgeon, Wright, Paradies, Garvey & Walker 2010). Archibald Meston was a leading influential figure regarding Aboriginal Affairs in the colonial era (Briscoe 2003). After migrating from Scotland to Australia with his parents in 1859, Meston established a life as a journalist, civil servant and explorer. From 1875-1881, Meston edited the ‘Ipswich Observer’ and represented Rosewood Electorate in the Queensland…

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    ship, known as Duyfken, to sail to this land was led by captain Willem Janzoon, a Dutch navigator and colonial governor. From 1606 to 1770, 54 European ships sailed to South Australia. Many of those ships came from Dutch East Indies Company (“Australian Stories”). In 1770, Lieutenant James Cook, a British explorer who later discovered the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, explored the east coast on his ship known as Endeavor. Under instruction by King George II, he claimed the east coast of…

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    Australia has a population of about 23.13 million people. Australia's capital is Canberra. Australia's prime minister is Malcolm Turnbull. Australia has lots of beautiful cities. For example Sydney is a very beautiful. One of the top sites to see in Sydney is Sydney Opera House. The blue mountains are very beautiful. The cairns is also a very beautiful place. Uluru is also a very beautiful place. Perth is also a very beautiful place to. The Gold Coast is also a very beautiful place. The Great…

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    The Western Plateau Essay

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    spectacular scenery and the diverse range of landscape Australia beholds is the reason why distinctive landmarks such as the Great Barrier Reef and Uluru rank alongside renowned milestones such as the Grand Canyon of the US and the Matterhorn of Switzerland. Australia is divided into three major physical regions they are; the Western Plateau, the Central lowlands and the Eastern Highlands. The Eastern Highlands region of Australia is the highest part of Australia, being a series of hills,…

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    Lake Eyre Case Study

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    Xun chen Gec000000ah 470 Task1 1: lake Eyre in central Australia 2: gippslond lakes of Victoria 3: lake Victoria in Victoria 4: parking river in nsw 5: snowy river Victoria 6: old river Western Australia 7: mount Kosciuszko nsw 8: mount zeal northern territory 9: mount ossa Tasmania 10: pedirka desert South Australia 11: great Victoria Desert in Victoria 12: Tanami desert in northern territory 13: Western Australia has an arid to semi-arid climate with warm…

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    started to get over populated, the British needed to find a new place that they could settle and send their convicts to. The British had many push and pull factors that made them want to establish a settlement in New South Wales. Some of these factors included that the convicts couldn’t be sent to the US anymore, the industrial revolution was also a huge factor and they were drawn to Australia to start a new settlement there. When the war of Independence ended in America, the British had to…

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    Krystopher Gonzalez 25 September 2015 ARC 2701 Annotated Bibliography Source 1 Fromonot, Francoise, and Jon Utzon. “Sydney Opera House.” Picon, Antoine: L’art de l’ingenieur, Paris: Editions du Centre Pompiduo (1997) This genuine piece of architecture is possibly Australia’s most famous building. The Sydney Opera House is located in New South Wales, Australia in the city of Sydney. In 1955, Bennelong Point officially became the ideal site of where the house would be constructed. This impressive…

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