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Australia is the flattest continent on Earth. And Adelaide is the flattest city in Australia.
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Is Alice Springs flat?Australia is the flattest continent on Earth. And Adelaide is the flattest city in Australia.
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I was just now going to say that most streets in Quito's Old Town are so narrow that buses have trouble making turns at intersections. Riding a bicycle in this area of the city is dangerous because of other types of transportation, too, including walking.Nice. Probably quite conducive for bicycling. Always my first concern with it comes to a living space that has relatively level ground.
One can certainly get by living in a hilly, even mountainous area like mine, but it kind of spoils a riding experience unless you're in tip-top physical shape and ready to make use of all those lower gear ratios. Even then I occasionally miss not having and maintaining my ten speed. Not to mention that while we have bike lanes for cyclists, it doesn't negate the need to be highly aware of other vehicles on the road that are oblivious to much of anyone on two wheels apart from pedestrians.
I used to enjoy keeping it in optimal mechanical condition every bit as riding it. LOL....go figure.
Yes, very flat, but also very small and surrounded by a low mountain range, population 34,000. The entire Northern Territory only has a population of 260,000.Is Alice Springs flat?
I'm not entirely sure about that, we do have some quite interesting geology but at the same time Australia is considered to be the "oldest land" because there's been very little change here for many millions of years.Australia being flat makes me wonder if geologists go to other parts of the world to assess and evaluate the earth's geology and whether students who are interested in becoming geologists have to go study the earth in locations other than in Australia.
Wonderful, insightful, comments, Outdated. I always love being educated by folks like you! The photograph is beautiful too!I'm not entirely sure about that, we do have some quite interesting geology but at the same time Australia is considered to be the "oldest land" because there's been very little change here for many millions of years.
Necessity is the mother of all invention, this is true in an evolutionary sense too. Animals that have evolved have done so because of changes to their environment that give advantages to mutated versions of species. Small mutations happen all the time, often also referred to as Polymorphism.
As an example of this lack of change, Australia still has two mammals that lay eggs, the Echidna and the Platypus. The state of Victoria also has tropical rainforests that evolved to live in a very cold environment because that change was so slow and regular.
I suspect that a lot of people go overseas to study geology but at the same time I also suspect a lot of people also come here to study geology.
Sherbrooke Forest on the outskirts of Melbourne:
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Sadly, not my photo, I pinched it from the tourism commission.The photograph is beautiful too!
Here's a photo of a Giant Sequoia Tree in Sequoia National Park in California. Last time I was in the park was on November 21, 2004.Sadly, not my photo, I pinched it from the tourism commission.
I have walked through that forest a few times though, it truly is beautiful and those trees are bigger then the red sequoias in the US. It truly is humbling to walk amongst such giants.
Many millions of years ago Australia was two very large islands separated by a shallow sea, most of what today is desert used to be underwater and you find small fossils of shellfish and invertebrates just lying on the ground everywhere.
Excellent photo!Last time I visited Sherbrooke Forest was in the 90s. I lived in Melbourne twice, first time in the 80s for a couple of years and then again from mid 90s to early 2000s. These forests actually cover a huge swath of Victoria from the Great Ocean Road to the south west of Melbourne right up through the Dandenong Ranges until they get to our alpine regions near the border with New South Wales.
Sherbrooke Forest is just a small section that was preserved as national park very early on. These days Melbourne suburbia has spread out and around and completely surrounds it so it's very easy for lots of people to access. You can even catch the train there.
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