Tropical, desert and temperate places
Topic: Climate of Places: Tropical, Temperate and Dry Places in Australia
This is the student activity 1 of 4 of the Places are similar and different: climate of places learning activity.
Task No. 1
Tropical, desert and temperate places
Mouth of the Barron River, northern Queensland, 1881, drawing by J.E Tenison-Woods
Port Darwin
[In the Australian desert][Watercolour]
The Robinsons, feeding their cattle with sugar cane. Dunsandle Property. Enngonia, 2002Copyright status: - In copyright - Life of photographer plus 70 years
Oyster Bay from or round Mount at the upper end of St Pauls Plains - 1823. / (afterwards went to the top of the same mount with Col: Arthur / who named this "Mount Henry" after Capt. Lockyer of the 3rd Regt. / who accompanied us - in 1825 when
a. On a map of Australia, mark in the key climate zones and plot the capital cities, Barron River, Cairns, Bourke, Enngonia, Swansea (Tas) and Freycinet Peninsula.
b. Analyse of Sources 1 to 8 (below and in the downloadable resource) and write your observations and inferences of each place in the comparison table in the downloadable resource.
Transcript for Source 7: Afterwards went to the top of the same mount with Col. Arthur who named this 'Mount Henry' after Capt. Lockyer of the 3rd Regt. who accompanied us - in 1825 when after the Bushranger Brady &c.