The 10 most destructive tsunamis in history
网页2011年3月16日 · 10 worst tsunamis in history. 1. Sumatra, Indonesia – 26 December 2004. The 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra was estimated to occur at a depth of 30 km. The fault zone that caused the tsunami was roughly 1300 km long, vertically displacing the sea floor by several metres along that …
A Guide to Aboriginal Astronomy - Australian Geographic
网页Astronomy was used by indigenous Australians to develop calendars and navigate the land. Each hunter-gatherer tribe lived according to an annual cycle, which informed what they ate and hunted and where they travelled. “The timing of the moves was critical, otherwise animals would eat the crop before the humans arrived and so most Aboriginal ...
Ned Kelly timeline - Australian Geographic
网页2011年9月1日 · Ned Kelly timeline of his life and death. 1854/1855 (circa): Born Edward Kelly in Beveridge, north of Melbourne. 1869: A 14-year-old Kelly assaults a Chinese pig farmer and spends close to two weeks in police custody. October 1870: Arrested again for assault. 1871: Arrested for riding a stolen horse and fighting with police.Sentenced to …
Grey nurse shark - Australian Geographic
网页The grey nurse shark, which is also known as the sand tiger shark and spotted ragged-tooth shark, is found worldwide in tropical to temperate coastal waters. In Australia, it occurs in two distinct and geographically separate populations – one on the east coast, the other on the west coast. The east coast population is critically endangered.
Australia's most dangerous animals - Australian Geographic
网页2013年3月28日 · Tracking down the world’s most venomous snake, the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), took the crew to a remote desert in south-western Queensland. “The inland taipan is unbelievably elusive,” he says. The remote location is one reason there have been no recorded deaths by this species, even though one bite contains enough venom to kill several humans.
Australia’s 10 deserts - Australian Geographic
网页2016年4月20日 · Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology therefore uses three formulas to define our deserts, which make up a whopping 18 per cent of Australia’s entire landmass. Listed from greatest size to smallest, these are Australia’s ten …
A guide to Australia’s fairy-wrens - Australian Geographic
网页2019年3月27日 · The lovely fairy-wren looks very similar to a superb fairy-wren, but it has a very short tail in comparison. It is one of four chestnut-winged fairy-wrens, which includes the variegated, blue-breasted and red-winged fairy-wren. It’s endemic to north-eastern Queensland and is recognised as the most arboreal (living in trees) species of fairy ...
A guide to Australia’s possums and gliders - Australian Geographic
网页2019年7月25日 · A guide to Australia’s possums and gliders. This is absolutely everything you need to know about all of Australia’s possums and gliders. In the black of night, Australia’s 27 species of possum and glider scamper across our roofs, dart along branches in secluded rainforests or peer tentatively from tiny hidey-holes.
Fact File: Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) - Australian Geographic
网页Average lifespan. Between 13-18 years. Size. 60-85cm long and between 4kg and 15kg in weight. There’s nothing more Aussie than a koala up a gumtree, and these iconic marsupials are a well-loved species that are found nowhere else in the world. With their habitat sadly under threat, and numbers declining, the koala is the last surviving member ...
Lorikeets: Four things you didn’t know about them - Australian …
网页2019年8月12日 · When the wet season approaches in Darwin and the mercury starts to climb, lorikeets get on the drink. Red-collared lorikeets, native to the northern parts of Australia, exhibit tell-tale signs of drunkenness, such as difficulty flying, running into things and becoming friendlier towards humans. Basically, they lose their inhibitions.