Activity – Page 53 Read the text provided on page 52. Ask students to list all the organisations (including its acronym and its full name) mentioned in the text and all the places mentioned in a separate list. Discuss the number of organisations, planning and coordination involved in such a project. Ask students to complete the activities on page 53. Students will need an atlas to complete the first activity.
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1. (1) Heard and McDonald Islands – lat: 55°S; long: 75°E
(3) Tasmanian Wilderness – lat 42°S; long: 145°E (4a) Australian Fossil Mammal Sites —Naracoorte – lat: 36°S; long: 140°E (4b) Australian Fossil Mammal Sites —Riversleigh – lat: 19°S; long: 139°E
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(2) Macquarie Island – lat 52°S; long: 160°E
(5) Lord Howe Island Group – lat: 31°S; long: 159°E (6) Central Eastern Australia Rainforest Reserves lat 35°S; long: 150°E
(7) Willandra Lakes Region – lat: 33°S; long: 145°E
© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• (8) Shark Bay – lat: 26°S; long: 114°E
(9) Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park – lat 25°S; long: 131°E (10) Kakadu National Park – lat: 14°S; long: 133°E (11) Fraser Island – lat: 25°S; long: 153°E
(12) Wet Tropics of Queensland – lat: 16°S; long: 145°E
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(13) Great Barrier Reef – lat: 10°S – 22°S; long: 142°E – 154°E 2. (a) Dr Len Webb identified the tropical rainforest area of North Queensland. (b) UNESCO saw the need to develop the World Heritage Convention.
(c) Twenty countries approved the proposal and the convention was adopted.
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(d) Areas of Queensland were nominated for the convention.
(e) The Wet Tropics was declared a natural World Heritage Area.
3. It fulfilled all four criteria of a natural World Heritage Area. It is the only place in the world where two World Heritage Sites actually meet—the Wet Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef.
1. Select one World Heritage Site and research to present a talk to your class about the area. 2. Nominate an area within Australia that is not currently listed as a World Heritage Area. Provide supporting evidence why it should be regarded as such. Present your nomination with supporting evidence to your class. Discussion/Debate Discuss people’s responses to question 3. Not everyone will have the same explanation. Why do you think this is? The Daintree
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