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Stirling Range

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The Stirling Range or Koikyennuruff is a range of mountains and hills in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 337 km south-east of Perth. [1]

75 relations: Abseiling, Albany, Western Australia, Alexander Collie, Baudin's black cockatoo, Biome, BirdLife International, Blue-breasted fairywren, Bluff Knoll, Borden, Western Australia, Camping, Carnaby's black cockatoo, Cranbrook, Western Australia, Department of Conservation and Land Management (Western Australia), Dreamtime, Edmund Lockyer, Endangered species, Geochronology, Gliding, Gnowangerup, Western Australia, Great Southern (Western Australia), Heath, Important Bird Area, Indigenous Australians, James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), John Septimus Roe, Kalgan River, Kangaroo industry, King George Sound (Western Australia), Koreng, Land snail, Mallee (habit), Mammal, Matthew Flinders, Metamorphic rock, Mount Barker, Western Australia, Mygalomorphae, Numbat, Paleoproterozoic, Perth, Plant community, Porongurup National Park, Porongurup, Western Australia, Purple-gaped honeyeater, Rain, Red-capped parrot, Red-eared firetail, Red-winged fairywren, Regent parrot, Robert Dale, Rufous treecreeper, ..., Salt lake, Santalum spicatum, Sediment, Sheep, Shrubland, Snow, South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, South West, Western Australia, Species reintroduction, Spider, Squatting, Stirling Range National Park, The West Australian, Toolbrunup, Uranium–lead dating, Weather, Western Australia, Western rosella, Western spinebill, Western thornbill, Western whipbird, Western yellow robin, Wetland, White-breasted robin, Woodland. Expand index (25 more) »

Abseiling

An abseil, also called a rappel after its French name, is a controlled descent off a vertical drop, such as a rock face, using a rope.

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Albany, Western Australia

Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital.

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Alexander Collie

Dr Alexander Collie (2 June 1793 – 8 November 1835) was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who journeyed to Western Australia in 1829, where he was an explorer and Colonial Surgeon.

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Baudin's black cockatoo

Baudin's black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii), also known as Baudin's cockatoo or long-billed black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo found in southwestern Australia.

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Biome

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in.

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BirdLife International

BirdLife International (formerly the International Council for Bird Preservation) is a global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats, and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources.

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Blue-breasted fairywren

The blue-breasted fairywren (Malurus pulcherrimus), or blue-breasted wren, is a species of passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae.

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Bluff Knoll

Bluff Knoll is the highest peak of the Stirling Range in the Great Southern region of Western Australia (WA).

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Borden, Western Australia

Borden is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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Camping

Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home in a shelter, such as a tent.

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Carnaby's black cockatoo

Carnaby's black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris), also known as the short-billed black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo endemic to southwest Australia.

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Cranbrook, Western Australia

Cranbrook is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia between Katanning, Kojonup and Mount Barker, situated 320 km south of Perth.

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Department of Conservation and Land Management (Western Australia)

The Department of Conservation and Land Management (DCLM, but more often called CALM) was a department of the Government of Western Australia that was responsible for implementing the state's conservation and environment legislation and regulations.

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Dreamtime

Dreamtime (also dream time, dream-time) is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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Edmund Lockyer

Edmund Lockyer, (21 January 1784 – 10 June 1860) was a British soldier and explorer of Australia.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.

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Geochronology

Geochronology is the science of determining the age of rocks, fossils, and sediments using signatures inherent in the rocks themselves.

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Gliding

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne.

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Gnowangerup, Western Australia

Gnowangerup, named as the place of the mallee fowl in the Aboriginal Noongar language, is a town located south-east of Katanning in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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Great Southern (Western Australia)

The Great Southern Region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia, as defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993, for the purposes of economic development.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 179122 April 1865) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator.

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John Septimus Roe

John Septimus Roe (8 May 1797 – 28 May 1878) was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia.

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Kalgan River

The Kalgan River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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Kangaroo industry

The kangaroo industry is based on the harvesting of the large species of kangaroos, which are abundant and are sustainably harvested in Australia under strict government control.

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King George Sound (Western Australia)

King George Sound is the name of a sound on the south coast of Western Australia.

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Koreng

The Koreng also known as the Goreng are an indigenous Australian people of south-west of Western Australia.

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Land snail

A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to sea snails and freshwater snails.

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Mallee (habit)

Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, usually to a height of no more than.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Matthew Flinders

Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.

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Metamorphic rock

Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock types, in a process called metamorphism, which means "change in form".

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Mount Barker, Western Australia

Mount Barker is a town on the Albany Highway and is the administrative centre of the Shire of Plantagenet in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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Mygalomorphae

The Mygalomorphae or mygalomorphs are an infraorder of spiders.

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Numbat

The numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), also known as the banded anteater, marsupial anteater, or walpurti, is a marsupial native to Western Australia and recently re-introduced to South Australia.

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Paleoproterozoic

Paleoproterozoic Era, spanning the time period from (2.5–1.6 Ga), is the first of the three sub-divisions (eras) of the Proterozoic Eon.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Plant community

A plant community (sometimes "phytocoenosis" or "phytocenosis") is a collection or association of plant species within a designated geographical unit, which forms a relatively uniform patch, distinguishable from neighboring patches of different vegetation types.

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Porongurup National Park

Porongurup National Park is a national park in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, 360 km southeast of Perth and 40 km from Albany.

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Porongurup, Western Australia

Porongurup is the name of a small mountain range in the Shire of Plantagenet in Western Australia (see Porongurup National Park for information about the range itself) and of a small village on the northern slopes of the range.

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Purple-gaped honeyeater

The purple-gaped honeyeater (Lichenostomus cratitius) is a species of bird in the family Meliphagidae.

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Rain

Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.

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Red-capped parrot

The red-capped parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius), also called the pileated parakeet (leading to easy confusion with the South American Pionopsitta pileata), and king parrot locally in Western Australia, is an Australian species of broad-tailed parrot related to the rosellas.

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Red-eared firetail

The red-eared firetail (Stagonopleura oculata) is a species of estrildid finch found in the forests and coastal thickets of south-western Australia.

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Red-winged fairywren

The red-winged fairywren (Malurus elegans) is a species of passerine bird in the Australasian wren family, Maluridae.

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Regent parrot

The regent parrot or rock pebbler (Polytelis anthopeplus) is a bird of the parrot family (Psittacidae).

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Robert Dale

Lieutenant Robert Dale (1810–20 July 1853) was the first European explorer to cross the Darling Range in Western Australia.

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Rufous treecreeper

The rufous treecreeper (Climacteris rufus) is a species of bird in the family Climacteridae.

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Salt lake

A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).

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Santalum spicatum

Santalum spicatum, the Australian sandalwood, is a tree native to semiarid areas at the edge of Southwest Australia.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Sheep

Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Shrubland

Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterised by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.

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Snow

Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.

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South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council

The South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council is the organisation that represents the Noongar people, the Indigenous Australians of the southwest corner of Western Australia.

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South West, Western Australia

Names such as the South West or "South West corner", in Western Australian contexts, refer to a region that has been defined in several different ways.

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Species reintroduction

Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.

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Spider

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom.

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Squatting

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.

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Stirling Range National Park

Stirling Range National Park is a national park in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, approximately 337 km south-east of Perth.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Toolbrunup

Toolbrunup is among the highest peaks in the Stirling Ranges of Australia.

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Uranium–lead dating

Uranium–lead dating, abbreviated U–Pb dating, is one of the oldestBoltwood, B.B., 1907, On the ultimate disintegration products of the radio-active elements.

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Weather

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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Western rosella

The western rosella (Platycercus icterotis) less commonly known as the Stanley rosella, Earl of Derby's parakeet or Yellow-cheeked parakeet, is the smallest species of rosella and is found in south-western Australia.

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Western spinebill

The western spinebill (Acanthorhynchus superciliosus) is a honeyeater found in the heath and woodland of south-western Australia.

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Western thornbill

The western thornbill (Acanthiza inornata) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae.

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Western whipbird

The western whipbird (Psophodes nigrogularis) is a passerine bird found in several scattered populations across southern Australia.

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Western yellow robin

The western yellow robin (Eopsaltria griseogularis), also known as the grey-breasted robin, is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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White-breasted robin

The white-breasted robin (Eopsaltria georgiana) is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae.

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Woodland

Woodland, is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Range

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