Pat Slater

w^outh Australia's boundaries enclose a wide variety of landscapes, from the craggy peaks of the Flinders Ranges to fertile Murray River orchards, from the magnificent seacoasts of the Eyre Peninsula to the rolling dunes of the Simpson Desert in the arid north-east. The State is rich in minerals,...

RAINFORESTS For millions of years, rainforests covered much of the surface of Australia. Over more millions of years, as the continent became increasingly arid, they shrank in size, a process hastened in the past two centuries by human activities. Today, Australia's rainforests exist mainly in...

It is difficult to grasp the vastness of the Australian continent and the distance between centres such as Sydney and Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin. Modern means of transport cut travelling time to a minimiun, but, enclosed in their airconditioned cocoons, travellers of today...

r|'i n, l|i ,ii l' I' L ¦ I, 1, i ' I ¦'', v'li '-'i' -I , (,ii J ,¦ I; / III 'i; ntroduction There are few travel restrictions in Australia, no internal customs, no passport to produce when leaving one State or Territory for another. One currency is in use throughout the continent,...