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	truk - trips - australia - darwin, litchfield, katherine gorge
		After landing in Darwin, we got our feet wet with a quick daytrip to Litchfield National Park, which is only a couple of hours south of town.
		Mounds like exist to provide a home for termites, which build them up with the local dirt and their spit.
		Most of the truly typical Darwin homes blew away in one of the many cyclones that have ravaged the region, most lately in 1974, when the entire city had to be abandoned and rebuilt.
	www.truk.com /trips/sydney/20020716_darwinKatherine.php (1719 words)

	Darwin
		Darwin, California Darwin is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 54.
		Darwin, Falkland Islands Darwin is a settlement on isthmus.
		Darwin Township, Minnesota Darwin Township is a township located in 2000 census, the township had a total population of...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/darwin.html (628 words)

	Mounds
		Mounds, Illinois Mounds is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,117.
		Mounds, Oklahoma Mounds is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,153.
		Mounds View, Minnesota Mounds View is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 12,738.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/mounds.html (169 words)

	Darwin Mounds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They are a collection of sandy and cold-water coral mounds, located some 1,000m below the surface of the ocean, about 185km north-west of Cape Wrath, the north-west tip of mainland Scotland.
		There are hundreds of mounds in the field, which in total cover approximately 100 km².
		On 23 October 2001, UK Minister Margaret Beckett made a commitment at WWF's Oceans Recovery Summit in Edinburgh to protect the Darwin Mounds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darwin_Mounds (237 words)

	Fishing ban aims to save Scottish reef
		An emergency fishing ban is to be introduced to protect the Darwin Mounds, the cold water coral reef off the north coast of Scotland, the government said yesterday.
		The mounds, named after the Charles Darwin research vessel, consist of five metre-high "sand volcanoes" with living corals - typically lophelia pertusa - at their summits.
		Earlier this month the UK government said it would take steps to designate the Darwin Mounds as a special area of conservation.
	www.eurocbc.org /ban_aims_to_protect_darwin_mounds_et_al_21aug2003page1225.html (282 words)

	Defra, UK: News releases 2003:GOVERNMENT CONSULTS ON SPECIAL CONSERVATION FOR DARWIN MOUNDS - MORLEY
		The unique cold water coral reef known as the Darwin Mounds is being targeted for special conservation, Environment Minister Elliot Morley announced today, fulfilling a long-standing Government commitment to seek protection for the sensitive coral habitat.
		Launching the consultation into notifying the Darwin Mounds as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the EC Habitats Directive, Mr Morley confirmed that it is likely that the UK would be the first country to implement the Habitats Directive in the offshore area.
		The Darwin Mounds are at a depth of 1000m, and located in the Rockall Trough, 185km north-west of Scotland.
	www.defra.gov.uk /news/2003/030909a.htm (403 words)

	George Deacon Division - Deep Seas Benthic Biology Group - Projects - The Darwin Mounds
		The ‘Darwin Mounds’ were discovered in 1998 by SOC scientists engaged in an environmental survey of the deep-waters to the north and west of Scotland, carried out on behalf of the Atlantic Frontiers Environmental Network (AFEN), a consortium of oil companies with interests in these areas.
		A second group of mounds, the east field was discovered in 1999 be SOC scientists carrying out an environmental survey for the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
		Vulnerable to the effects of deep-water trawling, Lophelia thickets on the Darwin Mounds east are already showing seabed marks left by crossing trawlers, leaving a scattering of dead coral fragments in the wake.
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /GDD/DEEPSEAS/darwinmounds.html (351 words)

	Darwin Mounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Last year concerns over reef damage led to a ban on deep sea trawling from a 100-square-kilometre area of coral reefs called Darwin Mounds, described as...
		south from Darwin, the steamy heart of the tropics, you begin by passing crocodile-infested billabongs and gushing creeks, man-sized termite mounds and rows of...
		There are hundreds of mounds in the field, which in total cover approximately 100 sq km.
	www.wikiverse.org /darwin-mounds (343 words)

	Deep trouble
		The Darwin Mounds were only discovered in 1998 during a deep sea exploration project funded by the oil industry.
		Unexpectedly, sonar pictures have shown that the roughly circular mounds also have long 'tails', formed by dense populations of xenophyophores giant protozoans that may be 20 cm in diameter.
		The plight of the Darwin Mounds, which were named after the ship that first surveyed them, highlights the race against time faced by those exploring the world's lesser-known environments.
	www.hero.ac.uk /uk/research/archives/2003/deep_trouble5055.cfm (732 words)

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		The area of concern is the Darwin Mounds, thought to be thousands of years old.
		The mounds are made up of hundreds of coral reefs up to 5m high and 65m wide, covering an area of approximately 60 square miles.
		A spokesman at the department for the environment, food and rural affairs said that the issue had been first pushed back by the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, and then - because the reefs were outside territorial waters - by the need for new regulations before a special area of conservation could be declared.
	www.ifyoudive.com /news/newsarticle/?ObjectID=6056515 (323 words)

	DiveNews.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Darwin Mounds, deep-lying reefs north of Scotland lie 100 miles north of Cape Wrath and are home to more than 300 marine species.
		The cold water coral Lophelia pertusa which forms mounds in the ocean depths is the most common type of coral on the Darwin Mounds.
		Cut-throat eel, round-nosed grenadier, sponges and starfish, sea urchins, hermit crabs and worms are among the creatures dependent on the reef for sustenance.
	www.divenews.com /print.php?sid=2440 (420 words)

	- Pest Control in Darwin
		Mounds will not always be evident, but are usually found in open areas such as lawns, pastures and along roadsides.
		Darwin was attacked 64 times during the war and 243 people lost their lives; it was the only place in Australia to suffer prolonged attack.
		By 1974, Darwin was a growing settlement with a population of 48,000 that was developing new suburbs.
	www.bestpest.com.au /pest-control-in-darwin.html (3361 words)

	deepseascape.org - UK Deep-Sea Image and Video Library- Homepage
		The ‘Darwin Mounds’ were discovered in 1998 by scientists from the then Southampton Oceanography Centre (now National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) during an environmental survey to the north and west of Scotland (part of the AFEN cruises – see here for more information).
		Individual mounds are typically circular in outline with a height of up to 5m and a diameter of approximately 100m.
		The Darwin Mounds are remarkable for their ‘tails’— teardrop-shaped areas some hundreds of metres in length which can be found downstream (south-west) of most of the mounds.
	www.deepseascape.org /darwin.php (545 words)

	Welcome to Charles Darwin University
		Chinese and European settlement of the Darwin region dates back only 150 years, but earth mounds on the Adelaide River coastal plains reveal aspects of the lives of the Aboriginal inhabitants who were here 4000 years ago.
		Charles Darwin University is redressing the balance this week with the publication of the first collection of archaeological research for the Darwin region, Darwin Archaeology: Aboriginal, Asian and European Heritage of Australia’s Top End.
		The authors are former and current staff and postgraduate students of Charles Darwin University, and the papers have been edited by CDU anthropologists Dr Patricia Bourke and Dr Clayton Fredericksen, and Dr Sally Brockwell of the Australian National University, Canberra.
	www.cdu.edu.au /newsroom/story.php?nID=221 (419 words)

	George Deacon Division - Deep Seas - Projects - Enviromental Impact - Trawling Impact..
		The Darwin Mounds are a field of some hundreds of small (100 m diameter, 5 m high) seabed mounds located at about 1,000 m water depth in the northeast corner of the Rockall Trough.
		A key finding of that study was that the mounds appear to be under threat from the activities of deep-sea commercial trawling.
		Above: Sidescan sonar image of a “Darwin Mound” in the northern Rockall Trough (1000 m).
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /GDD/DEEPSEAS/trawlingimpactcoral.html (414 words)

	George Deacon Division - Deep Seas Benthic Biology Group - Projects - Carbonate Mounds...
		A major new discovery made during the Atlantic Margin Environmental Surveys (AMES) surveys were the ‘Darwin Mounds’ – two extensive areas of small seabed sand mounds with unique tail features.
		The mounds are home to patches of the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa – a species that has attracted considerable public attention.
		This protozoan is particularly abundant in an area of the north east Atlantic known as the 'Darwin Mounds'.
	www.soc.soton.ac.uk /GDD/DEEPSEAS/giantprotozoans.html (214 words)

	WWF-UK: Breakthrough in campaign to save Darwin Mounds
		Months of campaigning to save the Darwin Mounds, deep water coral mounds found off the northwest coast of Scotland, have paid off with the European Commission announcing emergency measures for their protection.
		The announcement is a victory for WWF which has been lobbying the UK Government as well as the EC to immediately protect the Darwin Mounds.
		Only discovered in 1998, the Darwin Mounds are a unique collection of cold-water coral (Lophelia Pertusa) mounds at a depth of 1000 metres, about 185km northwest of Scotland.
	www.wwf-uk.org /news/n_0000000963.asp (409 words)

	Scottish Liberal Democrats: Press Release 20th August 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Darwin Mounds is a rare collection of cold water coral stacks, situated 120 miles north west of Scotland.
		The emergency powers available to the UK under the new Common Fisheries Policy Framework Regulation, (EC) No. 2371/02 are not a practicable means of protection for the Darwin Mounds as the threat to the area would not meet the necessary criteria of being both serious and unforeseen.
		Information on damage to the Darwin Mounds was obtained from sidescan surveys taken during the 1999 survey.
	www.scotlibdems.org.uk /press/0308204.htm (1223 words)

	DiveNews.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Damage from trawlers dragging their nets over the corals has been documented since the mounds were first discovered in 1998.
		First discovered in 1998, the Darwin Mounds are a unique example of their kind.
		There are hundreds of mounds in the field, which in total cover approximately 100 square kilometres.
	www.divenews.com /print.php?sid=1390 (432 words)

	WWF - Darwin Mounds
		The Darwin Mounds, a deep-lying reef north of Scotland, is an example, but it's in danger of disappearing through overfishing.
		Discovered only in 1998, the Darwin Mounds is a collection of hundreds of deep-water sand volcanoes off Scotland, on which abundant quantities of coral have grown, supporting a rich diversity of marine life.
		The Darwin Mounds are one of 90 coral reefs to be discovered in the North-East Atlantic, but are by far the most important to date.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/what_we_do/ne_atlantic/area/coldwater_corals/darwin_mounds (363 words)

	Fragile deep-water coral thrown lifeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is proposed that the Darwin Mounds, discovered during an environmental survey in 1998, become a Special Area of Conservation, giving Britain its first deep-sea marine reserve.
		Dr Bett, a marine biologist who first investigated the site, welcomed the proposal saying, 'The existence of the Darwin Mounds has only been known of since 1998, and they were only studied in detail less than three years ago.
		These small mounds and their coral growths are particularly vulnerable to the heavy trawling gear used in deep water.
	www.brightsurf.com /news/feb_03/EDU_news_021903.html (488 words)

	George Deacon Division - Deep Seas Benthic Biology Group - Projects - The Darwin Mounds
		The ‘Darwin Mounds’ were discovered in 1998 by SOC scientists engaged in an environmental survey of the deep-waters to the north and west of Scotland, carried out on behalf of the Atlantic Frontiers Environmental Network (AFEN), a consortium of oil companies with interests in these areas.
		A second group of mounds, the east field was discovered in 1999 be SOC scientists carrying out an environmental survey for the UK Department of Trade and Industry.
		Vulnerable to the effects of deep-water trawling, Lophelia thickets on the Darwin Mounds east are already showing seabed marks left by crossing trawlers, leaving a scattering of dead coral fragments in the wake.
	www.noc.soton.ac.uk /obe/PROJECTS/DEEPSEAS/darwinmounds.html (351 words)

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		This ban delivers a promise first made by Margaret Beckett, UK Secretary of State for the Environment made in October 2001, and has been welcomed by WWF-Scotland, who have spent the past 3 years highlighting the damage deep-water trawlers cause to the reef, as they dredge over huge areas of seabed.
		"Up close the Darwin Mounds, off the Scottish coast, are as beautiful and rich in marine life as the Great Barrier Reef in Australian waters.
		Thankfully these ancient + fragile coral mounds that have taken thousands of years to grow, have been saved from further destruction with the banning of deep water trawling.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3913496&postID=108005728213207998 (377 words)

	Defra, UK - consultations - European Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC: Darwin Mounds - Candidate Special Area of ...
		Defra undertook a consultation to designate the Darwin Mounds as the UK's first offshore candidate Special Area of Conservation under the provisions of the Habitats Directive.
		The Darwin Mounds are an exceptional example of cold coral reefs lying approximately 185km of the North West coast of Scotland at a depth of approximately 1000m, and covers an area of approximately 1500 km².
		The mounds are comprised of dome-shaped mounds of sand termed "sand volcanoes", with living stands of Lophelia pertusa and other cold-water corals at their summits.
	www.defra.gov.uk /corporate/consult/darwin-mounds (178 words)

	The Scotsman - Politics - Government failing to protect coral reef
		Deep-water trawling is destroying the Darwin Mounds, a unique cold water coral site more than 1,000 years old situated off the northern Scottish coastline.
		In a document published today, the organisation said it was still waiting for the Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, to follow up on a promise she made 18 months ago at a WWF summit to designate the site as a Special Area of Conservation.
		Discovered in 1998, the Darwin Mounds sit at a depth of 1,000 metres, about 185 kilometres north-west of the mainland.
	www.thescotsman.co.uk /politics.cfm?id=462672003 (502 words)

	Wildlife News: Deep sea trawling threatens scottish corals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unless urgent action is taken to protect the formation, known as the Darwin Mounds, all its coral may be smashed within a few years.
		The Darwin Mounds were discovered 100 kilometres northwest of the Scottish mainland in 1998.
		The mounds are home to large cauliflower-shaped thickets of Lophelia pertusa, a cold-water coral that provides a habitat for at least 800 species of deep-sea animals.
	www.naturalworldtours.co.uk /articles2000/sept/sept2300e.htm (494 words)

	aces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tails to mounds were visible as higher backscatter suggesting a change in sediment composition or surface roughness that may be caused by a number of processes.
		When this was the case, the mounds were often scoured on the opposing side of the mound.
		Background sediment around the mounds was usually featureless although some mounds occurred in or at the edge of sediment wave fields.
	www.ucc.ie /research/crc/pages/projects/aces.htm (1208 words)

	Wildlife News: Protection for Darwin Mounds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Darwin Mounds are found in deep waters about 180km off the north west coast of Scotland.
		The UK is also taking steps to designate the Darwin Mounds as a candidate Special Area of Conservation under the EC Habitats Directive.
		The Darwin Mounds area is generally used for fishing for deep water species.
	www.naturalworldtours.co.uk /articles2003/august/august2303m.htm (526 words)

	WWF-UK: Government inaction threatens to destroy Darwin Mounds
		A status report published today on recently discovered coral reefs unique to Scotland (the Darwin Mounds), reveals threat of ongoing damage by deep water trawlers despite a year old government commitment to urgently protect them.
		Meanwhile, the Mounds, thought to be thousands of years old, are being destroyed by fishing boats trawling the area for deepwater fish.
		There are hundreds of mounds in the field, which in total cover approximately 100 sq km.
	www.wwf.org.uk /news/scotland/n_0000000676.asp (742 words)

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