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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [18] Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania.
Gahnia filum, the chaffy saw-sedge, is a tussock-forming perennial in the family Cyperaceae, endemic to Australia.It grows to between 60 and 110 cm in height. [2]The species occurs in coastal salt marsh in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
Alien taxa (over 470 species) [1] are also recorded. [2] Users can access fact sheets on species and some details of the specimens held in the Northern Territory Herbarium, [3] [4] (herbaria codes, NT, DNA) [4] [5] together with keys, and some regional factsheets. In the distribution guides FloraNT uses the IBRA version 5.1 botanical regions.
The Census in Australia, officially the Census of Population and Housing, is the national census in Australia that occurs every five years. [1] The census collects key demographic, social and economic data from all people in Australia on census night, including overseas visitors and residents of Australian external territories, only excluding foreign diplomats. [2]
Fisheries Western Australia – Mangroves Fact Sheet; Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment – Mangroves in the Northern Territory, Report Number 25/2003D (2003) Australian Institute of Marine Science – Field Guide to the Mangroves of Queensland (1993) Murdoch University – The Western Australian Mangrove ...
In its broadest definition, Greater Sydney covers the city of Sydney in addition to four neighbouring regions: the Blue Mountains, the Hawkesbury, Macarthur and Wollondilly. [2] During the COVID-19 pandemic , Greater Sydney was defined as the city of Sydney itself as well as the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong (including both ...
A major source of groundwater in Australia is the Great Artesian Basin. Although the Murray-Darling Basin receives only 6% of Australia's annual rainfall, over 70% of Australia's irrigation resources are concentrated there, which makes up around 90% of the resources in the basin. It contains 42% of the nation's farmland and produces 40% of its ...
Garig Gunak Barlu is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia on the Cobourg Peninsula and some adjoining waters about 216 kilometres (134 mi) north-east of the territory capital of Darwin.