Stirling ranges WA across the wheat paddocks. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Stirling ranges WA across the wheat paddocks. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Stirling Ranges. Bluff Knoll is the highest peak in the southern half of WA. (The highest peak in WA is in the Hamersley Ranges.) At just under 1,100 metres (3,600 feet) it is the only place in WA where snow falls regularly. Bluff Knoll is one of 15 peaks that reach over 900 metres high in the Ranges. The Stirling Ranges are 16kms wide but around 60 kms long. The area was declared a National Park in 1913. The ranges have infertile soils and extensive heathland and scrub vegetation with rainfall up to 40 inches (1,000 mm) annually. The mild and often damp weather produces a panorama of wildflowers with some 1,500 species of plants growing in the Ranges. Almost 100 of the plant species are endemic to the Stirling Ranges and almost a third of all the plants of the South West of WA can be found here! Although the Aboriginal people have roamed this area for several thousands of years the first white person to sight the Ranges was Matthew Flinders in 1802 when he also charted SA and its gulfs. It was 1835 when Governor Stirling and Septimus Roe, the WA Surveyor General, explored and named the Ranges after the WA Governor. Roe was Surveyor General from 1829-1871 a record that broke that of George Goyder in SA who only served for about 30 years! The Stirling Ranges are known especially for its banksia species including Banksia coccinea, cone bushes or Isopogon, around 124 species of spider and native orchids and the beautiful waxy Mountain bells - Darwinea species, and cat’s paws similar to Kangaroo Paws. Above is our lunch stop the incongruous Dutch windmill on the edge of the Stirling Ranges. Porongurup Ranges. The Porongurups are a lumpy granite and metamorphic range of mountains like the Stirling Ranges but lower. The highest point is the Devil’s Slide at 670 metres or 2,200 feet. The higher areas have higher rainfall which is why it boasts a remnant forest of giant Karri trees. Jarrah and Marri grow on the lower slopes. The Porongurups are totally surrounded by good farming and cropping land. The ranges themselves were used by timber cutters and only declared as a National Park in 1971. Like the Stirling Ranges NP this area is a favoured spot with bushwalkers. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-09-23 15:21:00 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/800) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |