Australian Windmills & Artesian Water

January 6th, 2010

Apparently in some countries a windmill is associated with an image of poverty. But in Australia a windmill is an image of life and prosperity. Much of inland Australia has no permanent surface water so during the annual dry season it would not be possible for animals, birds or people to live there if it […]

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Outback Australia – Climate & Landscape

October 11th, 2007

The Australian outback landscape ranges from vast, naturally treeless blacksoil plains growing Flinders and Mitchell grasses (referred to as ‘downs’ country), to rocky hills covered in spinifex, ghostgums and coolamon trees, to dense grey mulga scrub, red sandhill country, lignum and coolabah swampy channel country, to dusty nondescript scrub of bullwaddy, lancewood, gidyea or eucalypts […]

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