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Flying-fox camps, survey date: ...
The annual Finalised Priority Assessment List (FPAL) is the list of species, ecological communities and key threatening processes that have been prioritised by the Threatened Species Scientific ...
The Portland Maru was owned by the Tamai Shosen K.K. Line and was built at Kobe in 1919 by the Kawasaki Dockyard Company. The vessel had a gross tonnage of 5,865 tons and length 385 feet (117.35m), ...
The 'Frederick', in company with the 'Duke of Wellington', left Hobart for Mauritius on the 27th of June 1818 under Captain Williams with a cargo of 48 cattle (Hobart Town Gazette and Southern ...
To make good decisions that involve nature, we need to understand how nature supports our economy and wellbeing. Natural capital accounting (also known as environmental-economic accounting) helps us ...
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The 'Mt Kembla' or 'Mount Kembla' was built in England as a screw steamer for the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company (Paterson 2003:116). The vessel was later used as a sanitary barge (Maritime ...
British Motorist was a commercial tanker designed for the international petroleum trade, built in 1924 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Newcastle, north-east England, for the British Tanker ...
At midday on 19 March 1790 HMS Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, was wrecked on the coral reef off Slaughter Bay. She had led the fleet of eleven ships that set out from England in 1787 carrying ...
The wreck of the 1693 ton iron clipper Loch Ard is one of Victoria's best known and tragic shipwrecks. Nearing the end of a voyage from Gravesend to Melbourne, the Loch Ard sank after striking Mutton ...