In Australia, for example, since 1946 studies of undeveloped land that are similar to landscape photography have been conducted. Some projects by soil scientists and geobotanists (for example, in the USA) classifying lands also approach landscape research to a degree. The foresters of Canada and ...
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Miller, Brandon. (5 January 2011). "Flooding in Australia Fueled by Cyclone, La Nina."CNN. Retrieved from:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/01/04/australia.flooding.cause/index.html Wikipedia.org. (13 January 2011).Queensland - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.Retrieved from:http:/...
(Physical Geography) a narrow strip of land projecting into a sea or lake from the mainland [C16: from Latin, literally: almost an island, frompaenepene- +insulaisland] penˈinsularadj Usage: The nounpeninsulais sometimes confused with the adjectivepeninsular: the Iberian peninsula(notpeninsular...
For those who don’t know, OSM is like the Wikipedia of maps. It’s constantly getting updated by the largest community of mappers in the world capturing our changing planet. Not only does it produce a classic style topographic map for general use, but it also provides specialty purpose ma...
TheOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD)was founded in 1961 to promote economic growth. Its current 34 members include 25 European countries along with Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Chile and Israel. Mexico joined the group in 1994....
The Chihuahuan Desert is considered to be one of the three most biologically rich and diverse desert ecoregions in the world, rivaled only by the Great Sandy Tanmi Desert of Australia and the Namib-Karoo of southern Africa. However, settlements and grazing have heavily degraded the natural vegeta...
(it joined the union in 1959) and it is the only U.S. state that is an island archipelago. Hawaii is located in the Pacific Ocean to the southwest of the continental U.S., southeast ofJapanand northeast ofAustralia. Hawaii is known for its tropical climate, unique topography, and ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Yarra River is a river in East-Central Victoria, Australia that flows through the city of Melbourne. This article contains explanations and lists of the river's tri...
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