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	Reserve
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	Nature
		Law of nature (precept) A law of nature, as used in Thomas Hobbes is a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, b...
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	PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS) - Online Information article about PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)
		To designate the great work of Ptolemy the Arabs used the superlative eylvrn, from which, the article al being prefixed, the hybrid name Almagest, by which it is now universally known, is derived.
		Ptolemy concludes his great work by saying that he has included in it everything of practical utility which in his judgment should find a place in a treatise on astronomy at the time it was written, with relation as well to discoveries as to methods.
		But, great as were the errors resulting from such imperfect means of calculation, they were increased by the permanent error arising from Ptolemy's system of graduation.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PRE_PYR/PTOLEMY_CLAUDIUS_PTOLEMAEUS_.html (9570 words)

	Great Victoria Desert Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Great Victoria Desert is a barren, arid and sparsely populated desert ecoregion in southern Australia.
		The Western Australia Mallee shrub ecoregion lies to the west, the Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari-Sturt stony desert to the west, and the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean.
		Due to the aridity and dryness of the desert, almost no farming activity is carried out there, and it is a protected area of Western Australia,.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Great_Victoria_Desert (497 words)

	Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Great Victoria Desert, named in honour of Queen Victoria by explorer Ernest Giles in 1875, is a great stretch of arid and sparsely populated desert in southern Australia, falling inside the states of Western Australia and South Australia.
		The desert is approximately 700 kilometres (435 miles) wide from east to west.
		A protected area of Western Australia, the Great Victoria Desert consists of sandhills, salt lakes and grasslands.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/great_victoria_desert_nature_reserve (212 words)

	Nature
		The Kalahari is a vast arid region with dried-up rivers, sparse scrubland and desert with the animals concentrating in the dry riverbeds of the Auob and Nossob Rivers.
		The Rocherpan Nature Reserve lies on the west coast of South Africa and offers visitors a chance to view bird species, small wildlife and in spring some beautiful coloured wild flowers.
		The Witsand Reserve in the Kalahari is spectacular as it is a 2500 ha island of dazzling white sand encircled by the sea of conventional Kalahari red sand.
	www.encounter.co.za /nature.html (1000 words)

	GORP - Top 10 Deserts
		The North American Desert is composed of the Mojave, Sonoran, Great Basin, and Chihuahuan deserts.
		The Karakum and Kyzylkum Deserts of Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan are wind carved and peppered with sand ridges.
		The Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve, the Nullarbor National Park, and the Flora and Fauna Conservation Park are in this southern plot.
	gorp.away.com /gorp/location/deserts.htm (1873 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Great Victoria desert (AA1305)
		The vast Great Victoria Desert extends from the Eastern Goldfields area in Western Australia across the southern parts of central Australia to the Stuart and Gawler Ranges in South Australia.
		An example of this isolation can be seen in the Great Victoria Desert, where a population of Ctentus brooksi is isolated from populations in the Simpson Desert by a narrow strip of scrub vegetation in south-central Northern Territory.
		Diversification in habitat results in high lizard density: in a portion of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia up to 9 different species of geckos may overlap, with species utilizing a wide variety of food and habitats (sandridges, rocky breakaways, and salt lakes) (Van Oosterzee 1991).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1305_full.html (1608 words)

	Zimbabwe Safari - Hwange, Chizarira, Victoria Falls, Elephant, Buffalo, Antelope, Open Plains, Mopane Forest, Leopard, ...
		After a delicious breakfast, fly to Chobe, considered by some to be one of the last great refuges for the African elephant.
		Chobe has a great variety of habitats, ranging from verdant flood grassland and thickets beside the Chobe River, to forest, Mopane woodland and scrub.
		The town of Victoria Falls is a bustling resort with the highlight being the 150 million year old Victoria Falls - twice as high and three times as wide as Niagara Falls, it is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
	www.safariguides.com /zimbabweSafari.htm (996 words)

	Sonoran Desert -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 120,000 (An area of 640 acres) square mile s (311,000 (Click link for more info and facts about square kilometre) square kilometre s).
		The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the (Extremely large treelike cactus of desert regions of southwestern United States having a thick columnar sparsely branched trunk bearing white flowers and edible red pulpy fruit) saguaro cactus.
		In the 1951 publication, Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert, Forrest Shreve divided the Sonoran Desert into seven regions according to characteristic vegetation: Lower Colorado Valley, Arizona Upland, Plains of Sonora, Foothills of Sonora, Central Gulf Coast, Vizcaino Region, and Magdalena Region.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/So/Sonoran_Desert.htm (298 words)

	wimmera.com.au - Wimmera Recreation
		The park is a truly rewarding area for birdwatching and nature study, where a great variety of birds, reptiles and small mammals make their home.
		There are three interesting self-guided walks in the eastern block: the Sanctuary nature walk south of Kiata, Stringybark walk south of Nhill on the Gymbowen Road, and at the Dimboola end, a short nature walk to Pomponderoo Hill.
		This was the first area of the Little Desert to be reserved, when 217 ha were set aside for the preservation of the Mallee Fowl.
	www.wimmera.com.au /wimmera/2_parks.htm (4305 words)

	The World Today Archive - WA recognises native title in Great Victoria desert
		WA recognises native title in Great Victoria desert
		Eighty-five per cent of that is exclusive possession, the other 15 per cent being a nature reserve is non-exclusive possession.
		So most of the people that we're dealing with, the senior people, have only really had contact with white society since they were in their maturity, and they lived very much in that world.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s199965.htm (766 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Geographical Location The reserve is an inverted L-shaped area adjoining the South Australian/West Australian border, 80km north of the Transcontinental Railway and adjoining the North West Aboriginal Reserve.
		Physical Features The reserve includes part of the Great Victoria Desert which is an old erosional surface of Archaean rocks.
		Because of the remote nature of this reserve, little is known about the biota.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0118w.htm (493 words)

	Gunbarrel Highway - Wikitravel
		The Gunbarrel as it is loosely defined nowadays runs from Wiluna to the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and includes part of the Great Central Road, the Heather Highway and the connecting road from Wiluna, West of Carnegie Station.
		It lies 183 km east of Meekatharra and the Great Northern Highway.
		About 33 kilometers further you leave the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve and after another 15 kilometers there is a second track on the right, this one leading to Mount Beadell.
	wikitravel.org /en/Gunbarrel_Highway (1583 words)

	Gibson Desert -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The desert lies south of the Tropic of Capricorn between the Great Sandy Desert (north), the Great Victoria Desert (south), the Northern Territory border (east), and Lake Disappointment (west).
		More commonly, however, the term desert is reserved for regions that are barren because they are arid, or dry.
		Arid deserts receive little precipitation and are characterized by specialized plants that tolerate drought conditions and salty soils.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9036764 (853 words)

	Parks Victoria: Big Desert Wilderness page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Birdwatching and nature study are rewarding in an area which is home to a great variety of birds, reptiles and small mammals.
		Europeans have left the Big Desert largely untouched since their arrival due to the inhospitable nature of the area.
		The region is considered to be the best single area in Victoria for reptiles with over fifty species of lizards and snakes recorded.
	www.parkweb.vic.gov.au /1park_display.cfm?park=68 (428 words)

	African safaris, photo safaris, Africa safari - Fish Eagle Safaris
		Victoria Falls: We all loved the Victoria Falls Hotel-a bit of Empire--and were pleased we stayed there rather than elsewhere.
		Victoria Falls was disappointing because of the low water level -- but at least we could see the gorge this way.
		Accommodations were great and seeing wild dogs was good but for some reason we did not feel that it compared with the rest of the trip.
	www.fisheaglesafaris.com /testimon-archive.htm (22403 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT by Julia Blackburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		DAISY BATES IN THE DESERT by Julia Blackburn
		For twenty-five years Julia Blackburn was fascinated by the haunting figure of Daisy Bates, an Englishwoman who emigrated to Australia in the early part of the century, was briefly married to the famous Breaker Morant, and returned to England to marry again.
		Daisy's role as Kabbarli, the great white grandmother, can be seen as noble, offensive, or simply ridiculous, depending upon the viewpoint of the individual reader.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/daisy_bates_in_the_desert.asp (1336 words)

	Refugia for Biological Diversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia: 5.1. Great Victoria Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve (part), Queen Victoria Spring Nature Reserve, Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve (part), Neale Junction Nature Reserve, Yeo Lake Nature Reserve and Baker Lake areas (McKenzie and Burbidge 1979), all in Western Australia.
		Mammals : Sandhill dunnarts Sminthopsis psammophila (V) occur in the vicinity of Queen Victoria Spring (Hart and Kitchener 1986; Pearson and Robinson 1990), and in the Yellabinna area (Pearson and Robinson 1990; Kemper 1992).
		Reptiles : The dragon Diporiphora linga is endemic to the eastern Great Victoria Desert (Bird in Greenslade et al.
	www.deh.gov.au /biodiversity/publications/series/paper4/gvd.html (542 words)

	trip_03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It was 15 April 2003 and everybody was getting used to the routine of rising around daybreak, putting on the billy for coffee and attending to other duties of camp, like mending punctures and repacking the 4WD.
		It was already obvious that the satellite telephone they hired had a faulty or old battery and could not hold its charge for very long.
		Alan was on his way to the others, riding most of the day through very thick bush well into desert country, the Great Victoria Desert in fact.
	users.indigo.net.au /equinox/trip_03.htm (798 words)

	Mark Anderson on behalf of the Spinifex People v State of Western Australia [2000] FCA 1717 (28 November 2000), Federal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As with the majority of consent determinations, the orders were made in respect of land that was either unallocated crown land, reserved land or land already held by, or for the benefit of, Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander People.
		They include the Great Victoria Desert Nature Reserve under the Land Administration Act 1997, which is vested in the National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority under the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984.
		A second reserve, which was created under the Land Administration Act 1997 and controlled and managed by the Aboriginal Lands Trust pursuant to the Aboriginal Affairs Authority Act 1972, was also recognised.
	www.atns.net.au /biogs/A000197b.htm (992 words)

	Neale Junction trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Neale Junction is a 723 000 hectare Nature Reserve in the Great Victoria Desert.
		I have done several trips to Neale Junction (where the Anne Beadell and Connie Sue outback highways meet).
		We travel through Yeo Lake Nature Reserve where an abandoned homestead from the 1950's has been restored as a camp site.
	www.users.bigpond.com /phils3006/philneale.htm (191 words)

	National Native Title Tribunal: Media Release: Tribunal welcomes Spinifex agreement
		The non-native title agreement, between the Spinifex people represented by the Ngaanyatjarra Council, and the Western Australian Government, was signed today at Mirramiratjara in the Great Victoria Desert after two years of intensive negotiations.
		The agreement related to a 50,000 square kilometre area of desert country abutting the South Australian border south east of Warburton.
		The area concerned included an Aboriginal reserve, a nature reserve and vacant Crown land and had no current pastoral or mining leases, although there was exploration interest in the area.
	www.nntt.gov.au /media/1021258062_14439.html (314 words)

	AusAnthrop: Bibliography on the Western Desert
		BEARD J.S. Great Victoria Desert: the Vegetation of the Great Victoria Desert Area.
		BEARD J.S. The natural regions of the desert of Western Australia.
		CANE S. Desert camps: a case study of stone artefacts and aboriginal behaviour in the Western Desert.
	www.ausanthrop.net /research/wd_dir/wd_biblio.php?type=all (10339 words)

	Science Division - Research Papers - 1991
		Burbidge, A. Principles for developing a nature conservation reserve system: a talk held at the Department of Conservation and Land Management, 16 August 1991.
		Burrows, N., Ward, B. and Robinson, A. Fire behaviour in spinifex fuels on the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve, Western Australia.
		Pearson, D. Management of spinifex deserts for nature conservation: proceedings of a workshop held at the Department of Conservation and Land Management, Como, W.A. 11-13 July 1990.
	science.calm.wa.gov.au /papers/1991.php (6115 words)

	Re: sandhill dunnart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The sandhill dunnart is only known to occur in a couple of restricted locations in South Australia and Western Australia.
		Mostly it occurs in desert but it was also recorded from the northern portion of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia in the wheatbelt.
		CALM has been conducting a long-term study of the role of fire in the desert at Queen Victoria Spring Nature Reserve in the Great Victoria Desert of WA.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /bilbydiscussion/_disc1/0000000e.htm (144 words)

	Highlights of Namibia \| Desert \| Namibia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Namib desert forms a coastal plain, which runs 140 km from north to south along the Atlantic seaboard, and extends 50 km inland, where corrugated dunes ascend gently to a central plateau - a rugged gravel plain cleaved by sandy valleys and ridged with ancient mountains.
		More than 50 mammals, which include desert elephant and rhino, 193 bird species and a host of smaller sand dwelling creatures, live in the park.
		Two great rivers form the eastern and western boundaries of the 600 000 ha Caprivi Game Parks - a corridor of mopane, acacia and combretum woodland that runs nearly 180km between Angola and Botswana.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/3009.html (3092 words)

	OUTBACK - SOUTH AUSTRALIA
		For a lot of the journey you will be travelling through desert including the Great Victoria Desert, the Simpson Desert and the Sturt Stony Desert.
		The track leads through the Strzelecki Regional Reserve along the Strzelecki Creek, until it reaches Innamincka on the Southern Queensland border.
		The Pink Roadhouse is a friendly place, and also the cause of many of the highway signs throughout the desert.
	www.australianexplorer.com /outback_south_australia.htm (839 words)

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