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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 and Sturt Stony deserts to the east, while the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean.
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Western and Australia
Drought and poor harvests from 1884 compounded the problems, with some families leaving for Western Australia.
Nearby Hibernia Reef, Northeast of Ashmore Reef, is not part of the territory, but belongs to Western Australia.
The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.
( Scuba diving for abalone in the states of New South Wales and Western Australia is illegal ; a free-diving catch limit of two is allowed ).
For example the United States uses NTSC-M, the UK uses PAL-I, France uses SECAM-L, much of Western Europe and Australia uses PAL-B / G, most of Eastern Europe uses PAL-D / K or SECAM-D / K and so on.
The carnival included teams representing Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia and New Zealand.
This instantly broke Victoria's stranglehold over state titles and Western Australia and South Australia began to win many of their games against Victoria.
* 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
In Western Australia the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley ( Western Australia ) is the world's biggest producer of natural diamonds and contributes approximately one-third of the world's natural supply.
There is a proposal to develop some of the roads running from the SW to the NE to create an all-weather road named the Outback Highway, crossing the continent diagonally from Laverton, Western Australia ( north of Kalgoorlie, through the Northern Territory to Winton, in Queensland.
There are also commercial deposits being actively mined in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia ( mostly in Yakutia territory ; for example, Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe ), Brazil, and in Northern and Western Australia.
The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile.
Western and Mallee
It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area because it contains small but globally important populations of Malleefowl, Mallee Emu-wren and Purple-gaped Honeyeater, as well as the rare Western Whipbird and Red-lored Whistler.
The Eastern Mallee and the Western Mallee of Western Australia are areas that are prone to salinity with little remedial action being undertaken to rectify the problem.
( note Yalgoo and Mallee lie within the South West under the WWF scheme, but are considered part of the Central Australian or Eremaean Region by the Western Australian Herbarium )
Newdegate is central to the Western Mallee subregion of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ).
Western and shrub
The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda-the Western Australian Christmas tree, Atkinsonia ligustrina-a rare shrub of the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the Central to South American species of Gaiadendron punctatum.
Acacia aneura, commonly known as mulga or true mulga, is a shrub or small tree native to arid outback areas of Australia, such as the Western Australian mulga shrublands.
Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon, Pacific serviceberry, Western serviceberry, alder-leaf shadbush, dwarf shadbush, or western juneberry, is a shrub with edible berry-like fruit, native to North America from Alaska across most of western Canada and in the western and north central United States.
The Valley of Flowers is internationally important on account of its diverse alpine flora, representative of the Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows ecoregion.
There are a number of common shrubs and tree shrub forms in this association, including salal, toyon, coffeeberry and Western poison oak.
Western and ecoregion
The ecoregion has been subdivided into nine areas: the West Coast Forelands from the Cape Flats to the Olifants River ( Western Cape ); the Warm Bokkeveld basin around the town of Ceres ; the Elgin Valley around the town of Elgin ; the sandy Agulhas Plain on the coast ; the Breede River valley around the town of Worcester ; the South Coast Forelands from Caledon west to Mossel Bay ; the south-eastern end of the Little Karoo ; Langkloof valley ; and the Southeastern Coast Forelands west from Tsitsikamma to Port Elizabeth.
The northern portion of the range is generally drier than the southern portion, and at lower elevations makes up the North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests ecoregion, with mostly deciduous forests made up predominantly of teak.
The South Western Ghats montane rain forests are the most species-rich ecoregion in peninsular India ; eighty percent of the flowering plant species of the entire Western Ghats range are found in this ecoregion.
The district has a moderate climate, and mostly falls within the Malabar Coast moist forests ecoregion, while the highlands are part of the South Western Ghats moist deciduous forests ecoregion.
The Iberian conifer forests ecoregion of the Iberian Peninsula in Spain and Portugal ; the Italian sclerophyllous and semideciduous forests ecoregion in France and Italy ; the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests ecoregion of southern Italy, Sicily, and Sardinia ; the Illyrian deciduous forests of the eastern coast of the Ionian and Adriatic Seas in Croatia and Albania ; and the Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests ecoregion of the southern Balkan Peninsula in Greece.
In Western Asia, the Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests ecoregion in Turkey ; and the Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests ecoregion in Lebanon, Syria, and northern Israel
The palaearctic Western European broadleaf forests is an ecoregion, in the Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests Biome, that covers a large area in Western Europe including: Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, and Switzerland.
The South Western Ghats montane rain forests are an ecoregion of southern India, covering the southern portion of the Western Ghats range in Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, at elevations over 1000 meters.
These tahrs inhabit the open montane grassland habitat of the South Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion.
The North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of southwestern India.
It surrounds the North Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion, which lies above 1000 meters elevation.
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