The rainfall pattern has changed in Perth and Southwest Western Australia since the mid-1970s.

* Informal name of Xanthosia rotundifolia, a plant found in Southwest Australia

The primary mining of tantalum is in Australia, where the largest producer, Global Advanced Metals, formerly known as Talison Minerals, operates two mines in Western Australia, Greenbushes in the Southwest and Wodgina in the Pilbara region.

The Stems then toured nationally to promote the new album, playing their first shows outside Australia last year, including European dates and a successful U. S visit which included the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

Following the coast south there is the Southwest Australia savanna and the Swan Coastal Plain around Perth, and then farther south the Warren on the southwest corner of the coast around the wine-growing area of Margaret River.

Southwest Western Australia is the main centre of biodiversity ; over 90 % of all Banksia species occur only there, from Exmouth in the north, south and east to beyond Esperance on the south coast.

In March 1942, MacArthur, his family and his staff left nearby Corregidor Island in PT boats and escaped to Australia, where MacArthur became Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area.

* SWEAT-Configuration ( Southwest US-East Antarctica craton ): Antarctica is on the Southwest of Laurentia and Australia is at the North of Antarctica.

Tannin rich fresh water draining into Cox Bight from Freney Lagoon, Southwest Conservation Area, Tasmania, Australia

** Southwest Australia woodlands ( Australia )

The Southwest National Park is a national park located in the south-west of Tasmania, Australia.

Lake Pedder from Mount Eliza, Southwest National Park, Australia

Southwest Western Australia from space.

After a few weeks in Australia the Allied arrangements for a Southwest Pacific Command were completed and Marshall was detailed as Gen. MacArthur's Deputy Chief of Staff.

In Australia, Casey became Chief Engineer at MacArthur's GHQ, Southwest Pacific Area ( SWPA ).

** AA1209 Southwest Australia savanna

** AA1210 Southwest Australia woodlands

The Cephalotaceae family contains a single species, a pitcher plant found in Southwest Australia.

Their distribution in Southwest Australia is represented by two subspecies of Rankinia adelaidensis ; one at the western coast, another along the southeast coast of the region.

* Green, Neville, Broken spears: Aborigines and Europeans in the Southwest of Australia, Perth: Focus Focus Education Services, 1984.

the 2, the San Kiang ( three rivers ) in the ( then ) Southwest ; ;

In the Southwest, mountain ranges, rivers and, most obviously, the Grand Canyon can be significant barriers for human communities, likely reducing the frequency of contact with other groups.

According to the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy ( SCERP ), all streams and rivers in the border region have been ecologically devastated as a consequence of the maquila industry.

Erosion has created the " Miramichi River valley " ( also shortened to just " Miramichi Valley "), through which the Northwest and Southwest Miramichi rivers flow.

Several names were considered, including Dayton State University, Southwest Ohio State University, Shawnee University, Four Rivers University ( after the four nearby rivers: the Great Miami, the Mad, the Stillwater, and Wolf Creek ), and Mad River University.

With the establishment of the minimum flow of the upper and middle river by the Southwest Florida Water Management District in 2007 and its supporting Recovery Strategy, the City of Tampa and the District in partnership are implementing measures and projects to achieve the required flow in the lower river, while preserving the pristine nature of the middle and upper rivers.

The southern K Street runs between the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, crossing the Southwest and Southeast quadrants ( as K Street SW and K Street SE, respectively ).

In between, M-40 runs through mixed agricultural and forest lands and along lakes and rivers through Southwest Michigan.

* the Bellevue neighborhood occupies all of the Southwest land between South Capitol Street ( to the east ) and the Anacostia and Potomac rivers ( to the west and north ).

Jetsprinting as an organised sport originated in New Zealand in 1981, and events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat, but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s permanent artificial courses were used — and this is now the norm even in New Zealand.

Australia is home to the world's two largest freshwater crayfish – the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi, which can achieve a mass of up to and is found in the rivers of northern Tasmania, and the Murray crayfish Euastacus armatus, which can reach and is found in much of the southern Murray-Darling basin.

In some nations, such as the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and New Zealand, imported alien crayfish are a danger to local rivers.

They live on the coast and in the freshwater rivers and wetlands of northern Australia, and they are farmed for their meat and leather.

The discovery and use of water held underground in the Great Artesian Basin opened up thousands of square miles of country away from rivers in inland New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia, previously unavailable for pastoral activities.

In the area surrounding Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, he was believed to have created all of the mountains, lakes, rivers and caves in the area.

Monotremes: The platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus ) is found in eastern Australia living in freshwater rivers or lakes, and much like the beaver creates dams, create burrows for shelter and protection.

* P. h. cristatus ( Vieillot, 1816 ), coastline and some large rivers of Australia and Tasmania.

* Kimberley rivers and streams ( Australia )

* Eastern Australia rivers and streams ( Australia )

It also suggested that he was following a northern arc from Moreton Bay in Queensland to the Swan River in Western Australia, following the headwaters of rivers, rather than heading straight through the desert interior.

It is native to the lakes, dams and coastal rivers of south-eastern Australia, New Zealand, and much of the South Pacific, including New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Tahiti, and Fiji.

Launceston (, often mispronounced ) is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River.

The nurseryfish, Kurtus gulliveri, occurs in mangrove swamps, estuaries and slow-moving turbid rivers of Australia and New Guinea.

* List of rivers of Australia

* List of rivers of Australia

Local observers have noted with humour that unlike communities with a similar name such as Stratford, Ontario or Stratford, Australia which are named after Stratford-upon-Avon and are situated upon rivers that derive their name from the River Avon, the town of Stratford, Prince Edward Island should be named " Stratford-upon-Hillsborough ".

The banks of the Ord, Fitzroy and other rivers are home to a greater variety of vegetation while in sheltered gorges of the high rainfall north there are patches of tropical dry broadleaf forest, called monsoon forests, deciduous vine forest or vine thicket in Australia ( often mistakenly called ' dry rainforest '), which were unknown to science until 1965 and are one of the most floristically rich parts of Australia outside the Wet Tropics and southwestern WA.

The waters of the river flow towards Lake Eyre in central Australia while those of rivers further east join the Murray-Darling basin and reach the sea in South Australia.

Also known as Jade Perch, ( Scortum barcoo ) a native Australian freshwater fish found in the eastern Northern Territory rivers of Limmen, Roper, Macarthur and the Barkley Basin, and between the Gilbert River in Northern Queensland and the Lake Eyre drainage of central Australia.