The Willandra Lakes Region is in the south west of New South Wales. The region is a World Heritage site because it has met two of the ten criteria set for being a World Heritage site. These criteria are:
Criterion (iii): "bears a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared"
Criterion (viii): "is an outstanding example representing major stages of Earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features"
Who are the owners of this region?
Pastoral stations comprise the majority of the area which can be leased from the State and administered by the NSW Land and Property Management Authority. The remaining land is managed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as the Mungo National Park. There are also some small areas of freehold land within the property. Archaeological expertise is provided by The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage over all land tenures within the property.
How did t...
Katmai National Park and Preserve encompasses 3,674,529.68 acres of land. It would fit in the state of Pennsylvania about eight times. Katmai National Park and Preserve is located on the northern tip of the Alaskan Peninsula and is made up of six active volcanoes and the surrounding forests, lakes, and mountains. Maybe the most well known of the volcanoes are Novarupta and Mount Katmai, famous for their eruption in 1912.
The Badu Wetlands are located within the Bicentennial Park which is located in the Parramatta River Basin approximately 12km west of the CBD. It receives slightly less rainfall and higher average temperatures than that of the CBD (central business district). The latitude of Bicentennial Park is 3350’ and the longitude is 15304’ with an altitude of 0-10 meters above seas level (m.a.s.l )The average temperature of the park is a warm temperate eastern marine. The size of the park is 100 hectares with the wetland size being 58 hectares, showing that the wetlands cover more than half of the park.
civilization existed on some far off continent, or perhaps not at all. However, the fact
In order to determine if the Adnyamathanha’s native title claim is valid, they must demonstrate that they have “maintained Aboriginal law and customs on that land” and that “no other titles allowing ownership of that land [have] extinguished…the native title” . This criteria is based on the decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 (“Mabo [No 2]”) , and supported in The Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996) 141 ALR 129 (“Wik”) and Western Australia v Ward (2002) 191 ALR 1 (“Ward”) . A successful claim is also dependent on the specific South Australian legislation that provides protection to both pastoral leases in the Adnyamathanha’s area of claim – that is, the Land Act 1888 (SA) . If it can be proven that the Goldberg
Wildlife, Nature & Wildlife: Unravel the best of wildlife and nature in Kakadu National Park(Australia)
Broken Hill is a small, isolated mining city in western New South Wales. It is about a 12-hour drive from Newcastle and has a population of around 20,000 people. It was the first city in Australia to be included on the national heritage list because of it’s magnificent heritage significance to the country. It is home to some of the largest silver, lead and zinc mines in the world. Broken Hills landscape is what some people see as the epitome of Australian landscape. It is covered in red dirt, dry shrubs and big rocks much like many other places in outback New South Wales. Mining is integral to the formation and ongoing sustainability to the town. This is illustrated in Figure 1a and b which
Whenever evidence is found in the archaeological world that suggests something newly discovered, or that an
The greatest Utopian Society is located in the suburbs of Boca Raton, Florida. It’s about seven square miles with beach and lake front properties. It also has lush land and a bounty of beautiful trees and flowers. It’s mostly tropical year round and has enough rain throughout the year to irrigate vegetation. This society is called Nirvana Lakes; it is named after an Indian religion that means to be free from suffering. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with the Supreme Being through moksha. However, in this society the Supreme Being is GOD. The word nirvana means in the Buddhist context, the blowing out of the fires of greed, hatred, ignorance, racism and delusion (Donald Lopez, 2011).
Through a story of danger and a childlike characterization of Ma, Torres demonstrates Ma does not have inherent motherly qualities. In the chapter “The Lake,” Paps intends to teach Ma and the narrator to swim, an endeavor which almost drowns both of them. The narrator describes the episode saying, “Ma who had nearly drowned me, who had screamed and cried and dug her nails down into me” was “more frenzied and wild than I had ever known her to be” (Torres 21). Almost dragging down the narrator with her, Ma does not exhibit motherly qualities. Instead of protecting her son, who is in the same perilous situation, she protects herself, an action which does not reflect empathy, protection, and reliability. Using words like “screamed, “cried,” and “frenzied,” Torres characterizes the mother as young and wild, making her more childlike than the narrator. Like an animal, she digs “her nails down into” her son. In this moment of danger, she abandons her human side,
Within the Hornsby Shire there are more than 900 landmarks and indicators of the occurrence of an Aboriginal settlement as a result from the local tribe, the Guringai people. A major place of significance is through the up keeping and findings within the ‘Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.’ “Sir Henry Copeland (Australian Politician) named this location after the Aboriginal tribe whilst chase is an English word meaning an enclose land where animals were kept for hunting” (Hornsby Shire Council, n.d.) Throughout the landmark Aboriginal paintings, carvings, engravings, middens...
Krajick, Kevin. "Tracking Myth to Geological Reality." American Association for the Advancement of Science. 310.5749 (2005): 762. Print. .
Lake Erie needs our help once again! From 1960-70 Lake Erie had a rough time with pollution and algae so we cleaned it up and now we have ruined it again. What all started the pollutants in the lake in the 1960s? Well factories started dumping their waste and pollution into the lake. On top of that farmers fertilizer started getting into the lake. The run off of the fertilizer on the farms would drain into Lake Erie. “As a result of these pollutants, Lake Erie contained increased levels of phosphorus and nitrogen, which contributed to eutrophication - a process that encourages the development of algal blooms.”, says Rotman. The pollutants was so bad people called Lake Erie the “dead lake” or “burning river”.
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In “Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? ”, Kwame Anthony Appiah begins by pointing out that some of the museums of the world, particularly in the West, have large collections of artefacts and objects which were robbed from developing and poor countries. He then raises a question: who owns these cultural patrimony and properties? Our first answer may be that since they make up the cultural heritage of a people, they belong to the people and culture from whom they were taken. Appiah has doubt about this and argues that if some cultural artefacts are potentially valuable to all human beings, they should belong to all of humanity. He thinks that when they make contribution to world culture, they should be protected by being made available to those who would benefit from experiencing them and put into trusteeship of humanity.
Eyles (2004) also mentions that during the period of glaciations, it must be proved that glaciers were the only active depositional factors at different global locations (i.e. no presence of non glacial deposits at the same age). Eyles (2004) continues that proving this point is very difficult due to the absence of bio-straitographic markers usually used to correlated rocks before the Ediacaran.