Australia

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AN AERIAL EXPLORATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN COASTLINE Unpredictable, ever-changing, íhe coastline of Australia is a vast and üti le known frontier. The early navigators called the land Terra australis incognita - the Unknown South Land - and even today there are still enornious stretches of the eoast which, because of their remoteness and inaccessibility, have seldom been visited by man. In this book the splendour and isolation of the Australian coastline has been captured, for the first time in its entirety, in the pictures taken during a unique aerial circumnavigation of the great island-continent. Photographed at low altitude írom seaplanes, the shoreline is revealed as a landfall of breathtaking beauty. Roeky headlands enclose hidden, snow-white beaches; mangrove-lined estuaries wind between shimmering coastal dunes; towering cliffs alternate with undulating green heathlands; and islands of every shape and size lie off the shore, interspersed with countless coral reefs. Here can be... Tovább

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AN AERIAL EXPLORATION OF THE AUSTRALIAN COASTLINE Unpredictable, ever-changing, íhe coastline of Australia is a vast and üti le known frontier. The early navigators called the land Terra australis incognita - the Unknown South Land - and even today there are still enornious stretches of the eoast which, because of their remoteness and inaccessibility, have seldom been visited by man. In this book the splendour and isolation of the Australian coastline has been captured, for the first time in its entirety, in the pictures taken during a unique aerial circumnavigation of the great island-continent. Photographed at low altitude írom seaplanes, the shoreline is revealed as a landfall of breathtaking beauty. Roeky headlands enclose hidden, snow-white beaches; mangrove-lined estuaries wind between shimmering coastal dunes; towering cliffs alternate with undulating green heathlands; and islands of every shape and size lie off the shore, interspersed with countless coral reefs. Here can be seen places famous in our history, areas that have been hostile to man, and land forms that make Australia unique in world geography - features such as the famous Great Barrier Reef system in Queensland, and the virtually unknown, but awe-inspiring coast of the Kimberleys in Western Australia. The coastline of Australia. earth's largest island. is often desolate, sometimes harsh. but magnificent in the way it has retained the unaltered. unpolluted serenity of the natural environment - a pristine quality that is becoming increasingly rare elsewhere in the world. Vissza