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32 relations: A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia, Abbott's booby, Asplenium listeri, Australia, Buddhism, Chinese people, Christmas boobook, Christmas goshawk, Christmas Island, Christmas Island National Park, Christmas Island red crab, Christmas Island shrew, Discoplax hirtipes, Endemism, Ethnic group, Four-wheel drive, Indian Ocean, Inocarpus fagifer, Introduced species, Karst, Ramphotyphlops exocoeti, Ramsar Convention, Rimstone, Spring (hydrology), Stream, Threatened species, Tourism, Travertine, Tropical rainforest, Wetland, William Dampier, Yellow crazy ant.
A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia
A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (DIWA) is a list of wetlands of national importance to Australia.
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Abbott's booby
Abbott's booby (Papasula abbotti) is an endangered seabird of the sulid family, which includes gannets and boobies.
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Asplenium listeri
Asplenium listeri, commonly known as the Christmas Island spleenwort, is a species of fern in the Aspleniaceae family.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Chinese people
Chinese people are the various individuals or ethnic groups associated with China, usually through ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship or other affiliation.
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Christmas boobook
The Christmas boobook (Ninox natalis), also known more specifically as the Christmas Island hawk-owl, is a species of owl in the family Strigidae.
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Christmas goshawk
The Christmas goshawk or Christmas Island goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus natalis) is a bird of prey in the goshawk and sparrowhawk family Accipitridae.
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Christmas Island
The Territory of Christmas Island is an Australian external territory comprising the island of the same name. Christmas Island is located in the Indian Ocean, around south of Java and Sumatra and around north-west of the closest point on the Australian mainland. It has an area of. Christmas Island had a population of 1,843 residents as of 2016, the majority of whom live in settlements on the northern tip of the island. The main settlement is Flying Fish Cove. Around two-thirds of the island's population is estimated to have Malaysian Chinese origin (though just 21.2% of the population declared a Chinese ancestry in 2016), with significant numbers of Malays and white Australians as well as smaller numbers of Malaysian Indians and Eurasians. Several languages are in use, including English, Malay, and various Chinese dialects. Islam and Buddhism are major religions on the island, though a vast majority of the population does not declare a formal religious affiliation and may be involved in ethnic Chinese religion. The first European to sight the island was Richard Rowe of the Thomas in 1615. The island was later named on Christmas Day (25 December) 1643 by Captain William Mynors, but only settled in the late 19th century. Its geographic isolation and history of minimal human disturbance has led to a high level of endemism among its flora and fauna, which is of interest to scientists and naturalists. The majority (63 percent) of the island is included in the Christmas Island National Park, which features several areas of primary monsoonal forest. Phosphate, deposited originally as guano, has been mined on the island since 1899.
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Christmas Island National Park
Christmas Island National Park is a national park occupying most of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean southwest of Indonesia.
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Christmas Island red crab
The Christmas Island red crab (Gecarcoidea natalis) is a species of land crab that is endemic to Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Christmas Island shrew
The Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura), also known as the Christmas Island musk-shrew is an extremely rare or possibly extinct shrew from Christmas Island.
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Discoplax hirtipes
Discoplax hirtipes is a species of terrestrial crab.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Ethnic group
An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.
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Four-wheel drive
Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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Inocarpus fagifer
Inocarpus fagifer, commonly known as the Tahitian chestnut, Polynesian chestnut, aila or mape tree, is a species of flowering plant in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family, Fabaceae.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
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Ramphotyphlops exocoeti
Ramphotyphlops exocoeti, known commonly as the Christmas Island blind snake, is a species of snake in the family Typhlopidae.
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Ramsar Convention
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.
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Rimstone
Rimstone, also called gours, is a type of speleothem (cave formation) in the form of a stone dam.
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Spring (hydrology)
A spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the Earth's surface.
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Stream
A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Threatened species
Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants, fungi, etc.) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
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Travertine
Travertine is a form of limestone deposited by mineral springs, especially hot springs.
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Tropical rainforest
Tropical rainforests are rainforests that occur in areas of tropical rainforest climate in which there is no dry season – all months have an average precipitation of at least 60 mm – and may also be referred to as lowland equatorial evergreen rainforest.
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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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William Dampier
William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer and navigator who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.
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Yellow crazy ant
The yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) is a species of ant, introduced accidentally to northern Australia and Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, that has caused ecological damage in both locations and is now found in the northern suburbs of Brisbane.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dales_(Christmas_Island)
