Cape York viewed by GoogleEarth
The marker identifies 18°S 146°E (Mission Beach)
These maps are taken from
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Rainforest Animals : Atlas of Vertebrates Endemic to Australia's Wet Tropics by H.A. Nix and M.A. Switzer (1991) Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU, Canberra |
The yellow areas are deemed to be too dry for rainforest,
on the basis of either average driest quarter rainfall of less than 75 mm,
or average annual rainfall less than 1300 mm
Dave Kimble April 2006
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