The photos and accompanying article are about attempts to correct man's
influence in Oz over the last 200 years. Showed some old growth trees,
brackish farmland, eroded landscape, etc. from around the continent.
Interesting and informative stuff. I could appreciate the farmer's dilemma
as I am trying to learn how to garden in red clay. I grew up with sand and
deep topsoil.
Gregg
From: Dylan
> > From: "Gregg
> >
> > There is an editorial on Oz in the current National Geographic that has
some
> > interesting photos from around the continent. Not OM unfortunately.
>
> Worthwhile, or just the usual opera house shots? I'll have a look for
> it.
>
> By the
> > way, does anyone know what makes Australia a continent and Greenland an
> > island? What is the cutoff point for island size?
>
>
> I think plate tectonics is what does it, not size. Are there any
> geologists here that can elaborate on where the continental boundaries
> are?
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