In the Australian novel "The Thorn Birds", the landscape description plays an important role. What kind of feeling does the vast Australian outback landscape usually bring? A. Only a sense of crowdedness B. A sense of desolation, grandeur and the power of nature C. A sense of a bustling ...
"a town that sits atop a burned-out volcano on the edge of the Australian Outback".Hardly in keeping with the Garden City's image.Keeping watchCOUPLE spent a wonderful Christmas day with family and wife even took in a swim in the family's pool.However, Boxing Day she discovered her watc...
Upon arrival, one of the children informs Blaire, “There’s something in the basement.” It isn’t long before strange things begin happening, including Blaire’s flashbacks of the accident that killed her parents. The children soon suffer injuries that Blaire, first, fears may be the deeds ...
Australian OutbackThe Australian Outback. Scattered trees and tall grasses are typical of savanna landscapes.(more) The biota of savannas reflect their derivation from regional biotas; therefore, species vary between regions. The savannas of Asia and tropicalAmerica, unlike those of Africa andAustralia...
Tropical wet-dry climate, major climate type of the Köppen classification characterized by distinct wet and dry seasons, with most of the precipitation occurring in the high-sun (“summer”) season. The dry season is longer than in tropical monsoon an
Sahul, paleocontinent made up of the present-day landmasses of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea and the land bridges (which were composed of nearby emergent sea basins) that connected them during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago)