Australia is a vast, mercurial land Ê a place where nature goes to e xtremes. The continents sheer scale and the diversity of its habitats are enough to indicate that it boasts many national parks and reserves o f local and international significance, but its absorbing and ancient hi story also adds to its natural beauty. Once part of the massive supercon tinent Gondwana approximately 180 million years ago, what is now the Aus tralian continent was linked to Antarctica and South America and much of it was swathed in luxuriant rainforest. Cycads, Antarctic Beech and gia nt dinosaur-age palms and ferns clothed the forests before flowering pla nts - Êof which the now ubiquitous gum trees in the genus eucalyptus ar e among the most prevalent -Ê ever existed!
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Title: National Parks - Our Australian Landscape (paperback)
Format: Paperback Book
Release Date: 10 Sep 2012
Type: Steve Parish
Sku: 2442109
Catalogue No: 9781741937404
Category: Reading
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