Australia's national parks : landforms, plants, animals revealed through nature reserves / Vincent Serventy
- Bib ID:
- 2551212
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Serventy, Vincent, 1916-2007
- Description:
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- Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1969
- 224 p. : ill. (part col.) maps ; 30 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0207953082
- Summary:
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p.10; Rock engraving at Mootwingee, N.S.W. (emu with eggs); p.16; Ochre mine at Wilgie Mia, W.A. (yellow and red ochres); Queensland parks - p.32; Aboriginal name for Banksia aemula; p.34; Arrival of Aborigines in Australia; p.40; Seeds of pandanus eaten by Aborigines; p.52; Bora rings in BellendenKer National Park (brief description of a typical ground when in use); p.53; Carnarvon Gorge paintings noted, especially Cathedral Cave; p.54; Bunya Mountains (brief description of Bunya feast given by Waka-Waka tribe); New South Wales parks p.64; Rock engravings at Kuring-gai Chase and middens noted in several parks; p.74; Rock engravings near Sydney (fish and lizard - no location); p.88; Rock paintings and carvings at Mootwingee (Snake Cave); Victorian parks - p.110; Glenaladale, Den of the Nargun (mythical beast); p.111; Aborigines coming to high mountains for bogong moths, method of collection and cooking; p.114; Aboriginal use of mallee roots as a source of stored water, methods of extraction noted; South Australian parks - p.122; Koonalda Cave (gives carbon date); p.135; Flinders Chase reserve, notes Tindales work and disappearance of Aborigines from Kangaroo Island; p.141; Canunda National Park, notes Aboriginal middens; Western Australian parks - p.149; Stone arrangement (no location); p.158; Young roots of the desert kurrajong eaten by Aborigines; p.161; Aboriginal camping ground found by author at Walyunga Pool on the Avon River; p.163; Aboriginal uses for parts of blackboy; p.164; Cave deposit of female human bones in Yanchep Park noted; p.166; Description of ochre mining at Wilgie Mia; p.170; Hollowed-out baobab tree used to secure Aboriginal prisoners near Wyndham on their way to trial, Windjana Gorge paintings noted and battle between police and Sandamara in 1894; Sandamaras hide-out at Tunnel Creek; notes presence of stone axe-heads in this area; p.171; Wondjina paintings in Prince Regent River Reserve described, quotes Berndts; Northern Territory parks - p.175; Permission to visit Aboriginal reserves required; p.177; Painting of woman and dingo from Central Arnhem Land; p.178; Aborigines as nomadic hunters; p.186; Aboriginal dancers, notes change to modern paint instead of ochre, clay and charcoal; p.187; Paintings of the Sickness Sisters and X-ray paintings; p.190; Notes Murganella Sanctuary also an Aboriginal reserve; p.191; Aboriginal paintings at Katherine Gorge noted; p.193; Aboriginal name for waterhole at Alice Springs Telegraph Station National Park; p.194; Importance of Corroboree Rock to Aborigines; p.195; Paintings by the Aranda witchetty grub totem at Emily Gap; p.196; Ayers Rock known to Aborigines as Uluru, mythical origin of Rock; p.197; Honeypot ants and witchetty grubs eaten by Aborigines; Tasmanian parks - p.200; Aborigines arrival in Tasmania via Bass Strait; p.202; Dingo did not reach Tasmania.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [5]-[6]
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Waka Waka / Wakka Wakka people (E28) (Qld SG56-10)
- Yuungay people (E9) (NSW SH56-06)
- Bunya Mountains (SE Qld SG56-10)
- Western Desert (WA SF51, SF52, SG51, SG52)
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld SC54, SD54, SD55)
- Wilgie Mia (WA Gascoyne / Murchison SG50-11)
- Bandilngan / Windjana Gorge (WA West Kimberley SE51-08)
- Koonalda Cave (Far West SA Nullarbor SH52-15)
- Northeast Queensland (NE Qld SE55)
- Walyunga (SW WA SH50-14)
- South Australia - West (SA SH53, SI53)
- Murgenella (West Arnhem Land NT SC53-13)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Nitmiluk / Katherine Gorge (NT Top End SD53-09)
- Bass Strait (SJ55, SK55)
- Avon River (SW WA SH50-14)
- Ku-Ring-Gai Chase (N Sydney area NSW SI56-05)
- Mutawintji / Mootwingee / Mutanie (NW NSW SH54-15)
- Southwest New South Wales (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- Anthwerrke / Underga / Emily Gap (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Carnarvon Range (SW Qld SG55-07)
- Kangaroo Island (SE SA SI53-16)
- Prince Regent River (WA West Kimberley SD51-16)
- Mallee (NW Vic SI55-11, SI55-15)
- Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)
- Wyndham (WA East Kimberley SD52-14)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Yanchep / Yonderup (SW WA SH50-14)
- Kangaroo Island (SE SA SI53-16, SI54-13, SJ53-04)
- South East Western Australia (SE WA SH51, SH52, SI51, SI52)
- Uluru / Ayers Rock (South Central NT SG52-08)
- Wandjina Gorge (WA West Kimberley SE51-08)
- Subject:
- National parks and reserves -- Australia
- Copyright:
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