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The Mallee is a sub-region of Loddon Mallee covering the most north-westerly part of Victoria, Australia and is bounded by the South Australian and New South Wales borders. Definitions of the south-eastern boundary vary, however, all are based on the historic Victorian distribution of mallee eucalypts. These trees dominate the surviving native ...
Mallee, also known as Roe Botanical District, is a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia. Located between the Esperance Plains , Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie bioregions , it has a low, gently undulating topography , a semi-arid mediterranean climate , and extensive Eucalyptus mallee vegetation.
Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.
Mallee Region may refer to: Mallee (biogeographic region), a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia; The Mallee, a region in northwest Victoria, Australia
The Loddon Mallee is an economic rural region [1] located in the north-western part of Victoria, Australia. [2] Occupying more than a quarter of the state, it stretches from Greater Melbourne to the northernmost point of Victoria, sharing a border with South Australia and New South Wales, and has one of the most consistently warm climates in Victoria.
It includes most of what is considered the Wimmera, and part of the southern Mallee region. The subregion is based on the social catchment of Horsham, its main settlement. The Wimmera district covers the dryland farming area south of the range of Mallee scrub, east of the South Australia border and north of the Great Dividing Range.
The first biogeographical regionalisation of Western Australia, that of Ludwig Diels in 1906, included a region named "Eyre" that roughly encompassed the present-day Esperance Plains and Mallee regions. Recognition of the Esperance Plains as a distinct biogeographical region appears to have been due to Edward de Courcy Clarke. In 1926, Clarke ...
The region is renowned for its sunshine, intensive horticulture including grapes and oranges. Its main centre is Mildura, Victoria . The area of Victoria to the west of Sunraysia is known as the Millewa , the main distinction being that Sunraysia is the irrigated area and the Millewa is the dryland cropping area.