Cape Town Lens: Image from page 111 of “The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914” (1914)

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Image from page 111 of “The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914” (1914)

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Title: The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: British Association for the Advancement of Science. Federal Council in Australia Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics Knibbs, George Handley, 1858-1929
Subjects: Australia
Publisher: Melbourne : A. J. Mullet, government printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sterly fashion by Professor David in liispresidential address to the Royal Society of New South Wales, liUl. This should certainly beconsulted. C. 12154. G 88 Federal Handbook. Riverina to Melbourae. These have been hitherto perhaps the chiefeconomic factors in maintaining State differences within the artificialboundaries determined by the Constitution. Although Australia is a continent characterized by the slow change inthe nature of its surface, by monotony in the flora and by vast uniformexpanses of rolling grass land or more arid steppe, yet the larger States areso extensive that several types of environment occur therein and reacteach in its own way on the life and industries of the inhabitants. The regions adopted in this account are the following :— A. Eastern Cordillera fringing the Pacific and extending from Cape York to the Victorian Grampians and Tasmania. B. The Murray-Darling Basin, a region chiefly below 1,000 feet, and extending from Bourke to the mouth of the Murray.

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Murray Dsr/mg Basin South Aust Hiqhlands\,<3ni/Fautt y^neys f | Great /Irtesian Basin I Great P/aleau fleqion. .TASMANIA Fio. 1.—The Relation between the poUtical and natural divisions in Australia. C. The South Australian Highlands with their associated fault valleys, extending from Broken Hill to Port Lincoln. D. The Great Artesian Basin reaching from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Lake Eyre. E. The Great Plateau Region embracing the western half of the continent. Physical and General Geography of Australia. 89 The political areas are built up as follows :— Queensland.. (670,500 sq. miles) New South Wales, in-cluding Federal Capi-tal Territory(310,372 sq. miles) Victoria(87,884 sq. miles) Tasmania .. (26,215 sq. miles) South Australia(380,070 sq. miles) Western Australia(975,920 sq. miles) Xorthern Territory .(523,620 sq. miles) Papua(90.540 sq. miles) Natural Elements. Lo^vlands. Eastern section of ArtesianBasin (D) South-east portion of ArtesianBasin (D) ; merging intothe Murra

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