spanning multiple parts of the World Heritage-listed Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia. The swamps were first listed as endangered...
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The Blue Mountains are a mountainous region and a mountain range located in New South Wales, Australia. The region is considered to be part of the western...
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Carex klaphakei (category Endemic flora of Australia)
from only three locations, all hanging swamps of the Blue Mountains. "Carex klaphakei K.L.Wilson". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew...
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The Blue Mountains National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The...
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The Blue Mountains water skink or Blue Mountains swamp-skink (Eulamprus leuraensis) is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. An endangered species...
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The Blue Gum Swamp is a swamp located in Blue Mountains National Park in the lower Grose Valley of the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales west of Sydney...
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giving the mountain region its signature name, "Blue Mountains". The Greater Blue Mountains Area consists of 10,300 square kilometres (4,000 sq mi) of mostly...
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includes Summit Peak, the highest point in the mountains at 1,958 feet (595 m). Rivers, waterfalls, swamps, and lakes lie between the rocky outcroppings...
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The Adirondack Mountains (/ˌædɪˈrɒndæk/ AD-i-RON-dak) are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately 160...
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South Mountain, the northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It is bordered to the east by Adams County, and to the south by Frederick...
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from the Boston area. Sailors along on the coastline noticed the bluish hue of the mountains, which is caused by the presence of riebeckite, giving the area...
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also called them the Blue Mountains or Blue Hills (not to be confused with Blue Mountain in Sussex County). The Watchung Mountains are known for their...
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major mountain ranges in New York: the Adirondack Mountains, the Catskill Mountains, and part of the Appalachian Mountains. The Adirondack Mountains are...
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Katoomba, New South Wales (category Suburbs of the City of Blue Mountains)
is the main town and council seat of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, and is the administrative centre of Blue Mountains City...
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Michael Eades Reserve (category Parks and reserves of the Blue Mountains (New South Wales))
hanging swamps are the source of water for creeks and waterfalls in the upper Blue Mountains. In this Reserve, Katoomba Creek flows downstream into the World...
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The Blue Labyrinth is an area covering much of the southern part of Blue Mountains National Park in New South Wales, Australia. It spans an area south...
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campaign for the legal protection of the Blue Mountains swamps was organised, which included the advocacy for an additional category of vulnerable ecological...
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in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, including the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians and the Blue Ridge Mountains. It covers an area of about...
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Lawson railway station (category City of Blue Mountains)
Christmas Swamp; Blue Mountain. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. A passing loop exists north of Platform...
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Tony and Amelia Stevens, who also live in the Blue Ridge Mountains; Derik Stevens, a mountain man living off-the-grid, twenty miles from Boulder, Colorado;...
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The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare, and Irish hare, is a species...
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ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains...
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The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most...
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Natural history of Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Individual trees in Georgia (U.S. state) L. Katherine Kirkman; Claud L. Brown (2000). Trees of Georgia and...
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Medlow Bath, New South Wales (category Suburbs of the City of Blue Mountains)
Medlow Bath (postcode: 2780) is a village located near the highest point of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. Located between Katoomba and...
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White Nile (redirect from Mountain Nile)
African Rift. The river then flows into Lake Albert opposite the Blue Mountains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The stretch of river from Lake...
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Shawangunk Ridge (redirect from Shwangunk Mountains)
continuation of the long, easternmost section of the Appalachian Mountains; the ridge is known as Kittatinny Mountain in New Jersey, and as Blue Mountain as it...
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Mount Victoria, New South Wales (category Suburbs of the City of Blue Mountains)
in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Geographically, Mount Victoria is the westernmost village and suburb of Greater Sydney on the Great...
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Catahoula Leopard Dog (category Dog breeds originating in the United States)
and herding livestock. The first white settlers in Louisiana are believed to have used the dog to hunt feral pigs in the swamps of Louisiana. Catahoulas...
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peak on the eastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of the major chains of the Appalachian Mountains. (Nearby Mt. Mitchell, the highest peak...
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