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Term 1
   
Population
Climate
Flora
Fauna
Soils
Land Use
Wilderness/National Parks
Disasters/Natural Hazards
Environment Bodies

Students are to select a region of Australia and its main city and then research a number of aspects about this region.  The aspects that need to be considered are:

  • initial settlement of the area

  • population

  • climate

  • vegetation (Flora)

  • native fauna

  • soils

  • land use (farming/industry)

  • wilderness

  • coastal areas

  • fishing

  • disasters/natural hazards

Students are to select from the following regions

South Australia

  1. Eyre (Port Lincoln)

  2. Murray Lands (Murray-Mallee – Murray Bridge)

  3. Murray Lands (Riverland – Berri)

  4. Northern (Far North – Coober Pedy)

  5. South East (Mt Gambier)

  6. Yorke & lower north (Lower North – Claire)

  7. Yorke & lower north (Yorke – Kadina)

New South Wales

  1. Central West (Bathurst or Parkes)

  2. Central West (Central Tablelands – Orange)

  3. Far West (Broken Hill)

  4. Hunter (Newcastle)

  5. Illawarra (Wollongong)

  6. Mid North Coast (Coffs Harbour or Port Macquarie)

  7. Murray (Albury)

  8. Murray (Central Murray – Swan Hill)

  9. Murray (Murray-Darling – Mildura)

  10. Murrumbidgee (Wagga Wagga)

  11. North Western (Dubbo or Bourke)

  12. Northern (Northern Tablelands – Armidale)

  13. Northern (Tamworth or Moree)

  14. Richmond Tweed (Lismore or Ballina)

  15. South Eastern (Lower South Coast – Eden)

  16. South Eastern (Snowy – Cooma or Perisher Valley)

Victoria

  1. Barwon (Geelong)

  2. Central Highlands (Ballarat)

  3. East Gippsland (Sale or Bairnsdale)

  4. Gippsland (Moe)

  5. Goulburn (Shepparton)

  6. Loddon (Bendigo)

  7. Mallee (Mildura)

  8. Ovens Murray (Wodonga or Benalla)

  9. Western District (Warrnambool)

  10. Wimmera (Horsham)

Queensland

  1. Central West (Longreach)

  2. Darling Downs (Toowoomba)

  3. Far North (Cairns)

  4. Fitzroy (Rockhampton)

  5. Mackay (Mackay)

  6. Moreton (Gold Coast – Gold Coast)

  7. Moreton (Sunshine Coast – Caloundra)

  8. North West (Mt Isa)

  9. Northern (Townsville)

  10. South West (Longreach)

  11. Wide Bay – Burnett (Bundaberg or Hervey Bay)

Western Australia

  1. Central (Geraldton)

  2. Kimberley (Broome)

  3. Lower Great Southern (Albany)

  4. Midlands (Northam or Merredin)

  5. South Eastern (Kalgoorlie)

  6. South West (Bunbury or Busselton - incl Margaret River)

  7. Upper Great Southern (Narrogin)

Tasmania

  1. Mersey-Lyell (Burnie/Devonport – incl King Is)

  2. Northern (Launceston – incl Flinders & Cape Baron Is)

  3. Southern (Huon Valley – Southport)

Northern Territory

  1. Rest of NT (Central NT – Alice Springs)

  2. Rest of NT (Lower Top End – Katherine)

Australian Capital Territory

  1. Canberra (Canberra)

Resources

The hyperlinks to the right provide a starting point for most topics. They consist of:

  • A list of books or other references found in the BPS library and the CALL Number, as well as keywords that you may use for further searches using the Library catalogue.

  • Internet sites can generally be found by using key words summarising your particular area entered into an Australian Search Engine – make sure you have selected only Australia, and English language. A good Australian search engine to use is http://au.altavista.com/

Each topic has a list of suggestions on the best way to approach searching for information. The resource list also has library keywords, a list of books available from the BPS library, and some URLs of websites that you may find useful to visit.

How useful the references listed will be to your assignment will depend on what you want to focus on.