Tamborine National Park is located on the plateau of the Tamborine Mountain and is an area of about 11,60 square km in Queensland about 45km south of the city of Brisbane. The plateau that the park sits on is about 5km wide and 8km long with a high altitude of 525 metres. Due to the [...]
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Porongurup National Park
November 27th, 2009 No Comments
Porongurup National Park is found in Western Australia about 40km from Albany and 360km southeast of Perth. It is located around the Porongurup range which is a large mountain range that was originally formed about 1200 million years ago. Today the mountain range is mostly levelled but is still historic in nature although it now [...]
Lord Howe Island
November 20th, 2009 No Comments
Lord Howe Island is found in the Pacific Ocean about 600km to the east of Australia. It is not considered to be a local area of Government and is unincorporated and self-governed. Due to the beauty of the island and the amount of biodiversity in on the island it was named a World Heritage Site [...]
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Kakadu National Park
October 1st, 2009 No Comments
Kakadu National Park is located in the Northern Territory within the Alligator River region and is about 171km to the northwest of Darwin. The Kakadu National Park ranges over an area of 4,894,000 acres and has a diameter of about 200km lengthwise and a width of about 100km. This is comparative to the nation of [...]
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