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Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory Nitmiluk National Park [ 6 ] 14°18′44″S 132°25′23″E / 14.3122°S 132.423°E / -14.3122; 132
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.The outlying islands covered include: Christmas, Cocos (Keeling), Ashmore, Torres Strait, Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Norfolk, Macquarie and Heard/McDonald.
North of the Pilbara looking south at the range. At least two important but differing definitions of "the Pilbara" region exist. Administratively it is one of the nine regions of Western Australia defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993; the term also refers to the Pilbara shrublands bioregion (which differs in extent) under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for ...
The largest area is in Western Australia. [18] Acacia shrublands in semi arid and arid regions. The most common are mulga shrublands; the largest area is in Western Australia. Tussock grasslands that occur in semi-arid and some temperate [clarification needed] parts of Australia; they host a large variety of grasses from more than 10 genera ...
The desert in western Australia is well explained by the little evaporation of the cold sea current of the West Australian Current, of polar origin, which prevents significant rainfall in the interior of the continent. [3] About 40% of Australia is covered by dunes. [5] Australia is the driest inhabited continent, [6] [7] with the least fertile ...
On 9 November 2012, the Australian Government also acknowledged the Indigenous heritage of the area as being nationally significant. The Aboriginal Rainforest People of the Wet Tropics of Queensland have lived continuously in the rainforest environment for at least 5000 years, and this is the only place in Australia where Aboriginal people have permanently inhabited a tropical rainforest ...
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The red kangaroo is the largest extant macropod and is one of Australia's heraldic animals, appearing with the emu on the coat of arms of Australia. [1]The fauna of Australia consists of a large variety of animals; some 46% of birds, 69% of mammals, 94% of amphibians, and 93% of reptiles that inhabit the continent are endemic to it.