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inland and Australia
Early European exploration of inland Australia was sporadic.
Owing to the low and erratic rainfall over most of the outback, combined with soils which are usually not very fertile, inland Australia is relatively sparsely settled.
Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
At in length, the Murray rises in the Australian Alps, draining the western side of Australia's highest mountains and, for most of its length, meanders across Australia's inland plains, forming the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria as it flows to the northwest, before turning south for its final or so into South Australia, reaching the ocean at Lake Alexandrina.
Specific ecoregions of Western Australia include: the sandstone gorges of The Kimberley on the northern coast and below that areas of dry grassland ( Ord Victoria Plain ) or semi-desert ( Western Australian Mulga shrublands ), with Tanami Desert inland from there.
The Great Artesian Basin provides the only reliable source of freshwater through much of inland Australia.
During a time when much of what is now inland Australia was below sea level, the sandstone was then covered by a layer of marine sedimentary rock shortly afterwards, which formed a confining layer-thus trapping water in the sandstone aquifer.
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.
* 2009: 2009 Australian dust storm: On September 23, a dust storm that started in South Australia and inland New South Wales, Australia, blanketed New South Wales with reddish orange skies.
These provide significant waterbird habitats at times of drought and for migrating waders which travel across inland Australia.
Parramatta, founded in the same year as Sydney by the British in 1788, is the oldest inland European settlement in Australia and is the economic capital of Greater Western Sydney and the sixth largest central business district in Australia.
The Forty-spotted has the most restricted distribution of the four species, being endemic to Tasmania, in contrast the most widespread species is the Striated Pardalote is found throughout Australia, only absent from some of the driest areas of the inland central and western deserts.
Budgerigars are the only species in the Australian genus Melopsittacus, and are found wild throughout the drier parts of Australia where the species has survived harsh inland conditions for the last five million years.
It is a common and very widespread bird both in urban and rural areas, occupying all parts of Australia except for Tasmania and some of the inland desert in the far north-west of Western Australia, and appears to have adapted well to the presence of humans.
His aim was to explore inland Australia and he was hopeful of a government appointment in his fields of interest.
This family of the Diprotodontia order, which can be found in the east coast and inland of Australia and in some islands of New Guinea, is characterized by their very small size, which has side effects: because their mass-to-surface-area ratio is so small, heat escapes quicker from their bodies than it would in larger animals ( the larger the mass-to-surface-area ratio, the harder it is to get rid of heat ).
The Southern Freeway and Princes Highway, Australia provide alternative inland routes, descending the escarpment further south at Bulli Pass or at Mount Ousley, entering just north of Wollongong's city centre.
The first middle school established in Australia was The Armidale School, in Armidale ( approximately 570 km north of Sydney, 470 km south of Brisbane and approximately 170 km inland from the coast ).
The Australian Pelican ( Pelecanus conspicillatus ) is a large waterbird of the family Pelecanidae, widespread on the inland and coastal waters of Australia and New Guinea, also in Fiji, parts of Indonesia and as a vagrant to New Zealand.
Unable to scale the Great Divide, and not extending as far west as the outlet of the Murray River, they are excluded from the thousands of miles of waterways that drain inland eastern Australia.
* Citrus glauca ( Desert Lime ), from arid inland areas of inland Australia.

inland and skills
African farmers with rice-growing skills kidnapped from inland areas were sold at the castle or at one of its many " outfactories " ( trading posts ) along the coast before being transported to North America.

inland and Aboriginal
In 1852, 75, 000 people arrived in the colony and this, combined with a very high birthrate, led to rapid population growth ( as well as the equally rapid dispossession of the Aboriginal populations in those areas of inland Victoria which had not already been cleared for sheep runs ).
Dumbleyung's name is of Aboriginal origin, coming from " Dambeling " which possibly means " large lake or inland sea " ( although another source suggests it came from " dumbung ", a game played with bent sticks and a hard piece of fruit ).
The two main Aboriginal tribes inhabiting the area were the Wannungine ( Guringai Language group ) of the coastal area on the Lower reaches ( Below Mangrove Creek ) and Darkinung whose lands were extensive on the Lower Hawkesbury to Mangrove, upper Hawkesbury, inland Hunter and lower Blue Mtns.
The local Aboriginal people inhabited the area for thousands of years and have a dreaming story about the Rainbow Serpent forming the Murchison River as she came from inland to the coast.
The Darkinjung ( often confused with the Darkinung Tribe further inland ) are the Local Aboriginal Land Council in the Wyong and Gosford Shire Council area and is a major landowner on the Central Coast, participating in formal joint management of some areas of state forest in the region.

inland and became
With the independence and the influences of the European Industrial Revolution the main way of transport in Colombia became the navigation mainly through the Magdalena River which connected Honda in inland Colombia, with Barranquilla by the Caribbean sea to the trade with the United States and Europe.
Coastal cities such as La Ceiba, Tela, and Trujillo and towns further inland such as El Progreso and La Lima became virtual company towns.
In consequence, the Huari and Tiwanaku, who dwelt inland in the Andes became the predominant cultures of the region encompassing much of modern-day Peru and Bolivia.
The old town in the hilly inland was probably founded in the 10th century AD by some people from Locri, who had fled to the area to defend themselves from Saracen incursions ; in the following century it became a hamlet of the county of Grotteria and was home to various feudal lords.
The size of this inland sea remained largely stable from the 15th century onwards due to improvements in dikes, but when storms pushed North Sea water into the inlet, the Zuiderzee became a volatile cauldron of water, frequently resulting in flooding and the loss of ships.
When engineers cut a road up the western side of this draw, it became the main route inland off the beaches.
The much larger ships that could navigate the Kiel Canal meant that, although situated inland, Rendsburg became a seaport and a dockyard.
With the advent of canal transport, Castle Wharf became a hub of inland water transport and boat building activity.
In the early 1900s, Ardmore became well known for its abundance of cotton-growing fields and eventually became known as the world's largest inland cotton port.
Camden became the inland trade center in the colony.
The Atlantic provinces became the Kingdom of Portugal in 1139, and the eastern, inland part of the kingdom was joined dynastically to the Kingdom of Castile first in 1037 – 1065, again 1077 – 1109 and 1126 – 1157, 1230 – 1296 and from 1301 onward.
On 20 May 1729, a waterspout came ashore, became a tornado, and travelled inland to Battle and Linkhill ; nine farms and properties received serious damage.
Some dredging was done, and Great Barford became an inland port, but he lost a lot of money on the scheme, and the condition of the river worsened.
While the original goal was preservation of the remains, in 1992 the society became the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Trust ( H & G Canal Trust ) and the aim became full restoration of the of canal and locks so that Hereford would once again be linked with Ledbury, Dymock, Newent and the rest of the inland waterway system at Gloucester.
In medieval times Wakefield became an inland port on the Calder and centre for the woollen and tanning trades.
" Newark became a substantial inland port, particularly for the wool trade ," though it industrialised to some extent during the Victorian era, and later with an ironworks, engineering, brewing, and a sugar refinery.
The area was fought over for the fur trade, though the Hayes River, whose mouth is near the Nelson's, became the main route inland.
As the long-term strategy of control in Wales began to rely on military and administrative centres accessible by sea, the inland castles became obsolete.
5, 000 ) was an inland territory of French Guiana, administered separately between 6 July 1930 and 19 March 1946, after which all of French Guiana became a department of France.
When the trains became the main mode of transporting goods and people, and with the influx of migrants, it became not only possible but crucial to build more communities further inland.

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