| |
| | Kids Be Safe : Article 'Australia' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In some places Chaparral is the natural vegetation type, and in other places the result of degradation of former forests by logging or overgrazing. |
 | | These islands, collectively known as the East Melanesian Islands, were colonized by plants and some animals from New Guinea and New Caledonia, and are considered part of the Australasian ecozone based on those affinities. |
 | | Further north and east are the Pacific island groups of Micronesia, Fiji, and Polynesia, which are also of relatively recent volcanic origin, and constitute the separate Oceania ecozone, although they share many ecological affinities with Australasia. |
| www.kidsbesafe.org /DisplayArticle32749.html (5084 words) |
|