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Hutt Lagoon, Australia (Steve Back)

via It’s Nice That

TERN Data Discovery Portal - Australian ecology data 

Broken Hill, Australia, full of LEGO trees and flowers to celebrate LEGO’s 50th anniversary there

via Gizmodo

new OSM 2.5m imagery of Australia

via OpenGeoData

Sydney Stereotypes

via Black Maps

Youtube Map My Summer - Youtube experiment to highlight summer activities in Australia

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How Cyclone Yasi compares around the world - 

So if you’re struggling to grasp the magnitude of Tropical Cyclone Yasi, consider this: it is so large it would almost cover the United States, most of Asia and large parts of Europe.  The pre-landfall core was over 500km wide and its associated activity stretched well over 2000km.

The storm’s scale of destruction is as shocking as it is inevitable.  In the map above, the United States from Pennsylvania in the east to Nevada in the west, from Georgia in the south to Canada in the north and well into Mexico would be battered.  The areas highlighted red would be worst hit, with up to 300km/h winds and up to one metre of rain.

via News.com.au

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Bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia 

by Phil Hart

The Face of Sydney (a composite image of several thousand (?) Sydney residents, with separate composites for different neighborhoods)

• Some 54 per cent of participants described their ancestry as Anglo Saxon Celtic, 3 per cent as Indigenous Australians, 4 per cent as having South American ancestry and 11 per cent Chinese ancestry.

• Participants reflected the diverse or homogenous ethnic origins and age structure of the local population.

via City of Sydney