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Karl Ritter
Karl Ritter 1779-1859, German geographer, a founder of modern human geography. He was a professor of geography at the Univ. of Berlin from 1820. He helped define the scope of geography and its relationship to other sciences, and he emphasized the influence of natural environment on the development ... Read more
T. W. E. David
T. W. E. David (Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth), 1858-1935, Australian geologist and explorer, b. near Cardiff, Wales. David came to Australia in 1882 as an assistant geological surveyor. In 1891 he was appointed professor of geology and physical geography at the Univ. of Sydney. He was part of the ... Read more
William Scoresby
William Scoresby , 1789-1857, English arctic explorer and scientist. He made yearly voyages (1803-22) to Greenland, at first on his father's whaler, later as captain on other ships. Preparing himself by study between voyages, he mapped, charted, made deep-sea temperature soundings, noted the flora a... Read more
panhandle
panhandle in geography, a strip of land projecting from the main body of an area and shaped like the handle of a pan, such as the panhandles of West Virginia, Texas, and Alaska. ... Read more
Jesse Olney
Jesse Olney , 1798-1872, American geographer and teacher. His Practical System of Modern Geography (1828), a standard work for decades, revolutionized the teaching of geography. Olney's method was to familiarize students with their own environment in order to progress to the study of more distant ... Read more
Paul Vidal de la Blache
Paul Vidal de la Blache , French geographer, 1845-1918, the father of French human geography. He was educated at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and had an avid interest in history and geography. He taught geography in Nancy and Paris and was a member (1898-1905) of the Facult&eac... Read more
geopolitics
geopolitics method of political analysis, popular in Central Europe during the first half of the 20th cent., that emphasized the role played by geography in international relations. Geopolitical theorists stress that natural political boundaries and access to important waterways are vital to a nati... Read more
Albrecht Penck
Albrecht Penck , 1858-1945, German geographer and geologist. He was professor at the Univ. of Vienna (1885-1906) and at the Univ. of Berlin (1906-26) and was director (1906-22) of the institutes of oceanography and of geography, Berlin. He is noted for his study of glaciation (especially in the Alps... Read more
William Morris Davis
William Morris Davis 1850-1934, American geographer, geologist, and teacher, b. Philadelphia; B.S. Harvard, 1869. He founded (1904) the Association of American Geographers and served three terms as its president. He was on the Harvard faculty from 1879 to 1912 and was visiting professor at the Univ... Read more
Adolf Engler
Adolf Engler , 1844-1930, German botanist. He emphasized the importance of geological history in the study of plant geography, and worked out an influential system of plant classification. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin and director of the botanical gardens (1889-1921) there, he founded and edit... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Australia (Geography)"

Australia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...its days as a British colony Australia has developed a complex national...commitment was made to the idea that Australia is a collectivity of diverse...class, and gender. Location and Geography. Australia is an island continent in the...
Sidney Kidman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...history. He was known in Australia and throughout the world...Cattle King." When Australia had few railways and...length and breadth of Australia. With the aid of his...intensive knowledge of the geography of the bush, plus a...
synoptic climatology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth ...regional scale (e.g. for Australia or India). Regional and...climatology. Progress in Physical Geography , 16, 432–55...climatology. Progress in Physical Geography , 7, 90–6. Smithson...climatology. Progress in Physical Geography , 10, 100–10...
Norfolk Island
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...colonies of New South Wales of Australia. Queen Victoria of England...matters. The act preserved Australia's overall responsibility...science, history, and geography. Electives include woodworking...full self-government from Australia. Bibliography Census of Population...
Nauru
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...phosphate mining. Location and Geography. Nauru is a single, almost...overseas, but many visit Australia, New Zealand, and other...used to fertilize pasture in Australia and New Zealand. Control...in 1919. BPC was owned by Australia, Great Britain, and New...
exploration
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...See also space exploration , geography , and articles on localities...Africa , Arctic, the , Australia . Early Exploration Early...Pacific and the coastline of Australia became known to Europeans...exploration of the interior of Australia took place in the mid-19th...
Land Claims
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. As with...consideration of the intersection of geography, politics, economics, and...treaties. By contrast, in Australia the recognition of the existence...extinguishment. However, in Australia the existence of freehold...
Papua New Guinea
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...British New Guinea. In 1905, Australia took over the territory...and jointly administered by Australia as the Territory of Papua...New Guinea. Location and Geography. Papua New Guinea consists...Irian Jaya. To the south is Australia, and to the east and southeast...
Tuvalu
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...English Literacy Rate: NA Tuvalu has a geography of nine coral islands spread over ten...in the southern Pacific Ocean. This geography has been a major factor in the limited...Tuvalu secured financial assistance from Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Japan, France...
Gerhardus Mercator
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...established by the revived Ptolemaic geography. It also signaled the late Renaissance...apparent gigantism of land masses like Australia and Greenland on a Mercator projection...planned to print maps based on Ptolemy's Geography, maps of the ancient world, and an...

Dictionary entries related to "Australia (Geography)"

Australia and New Zealand, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Americans have traveled to Australia and New Zealand. Many important...sailors who poured into Australia during World War II, helping...following May. History and geography have been of vital importance to Australia and New Zealand's perception...
Debenham, Frank
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Bowral, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1883; d . Cambridge...exploration, cartography, geography . Debenham ’ s early...became the first professor of geography at Cambridge, holding this...London, 1945); The Use of Geography (London, 1950); In the...
Cook, James, Explorations of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...contributions to the geography of the Pacific Ocean...the eastern coast of Australia to the map, and claimed New Zealand and eastern Australia for Britain. Although...nineteenth-century geography, led to the emergence...New Zealand, and Australia. BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker...
Mawson, Sir Douglas
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Geological Society of Australia. His scientific awards are...geological problems of South Australia, notably on the Precambrian...expedition; Macquarie Island: Its Geography and Geology , Australasian...the Royal Society of South Australia , 71 , pt.2 (1947), 259...
Penck, Albrecht
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Habilitationsschrift as Privatdozent in geography at the University of Munich...elected to the chair of physical geography at the University of Vienna...in 1898, the Balkans and Australia in 1900, and the United States...Richthofen in the chair of geography at the Geographisches Institut...
Róheim, Géza (1891-1953)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...the University of Budapest he studied geography, linguistics, philosophy, law, and...doctorate in 1914 his examination was in geography. As an assistant librarian in 1917 in...xF3; heim to do field work in Central Australia, New Guinea, Normanby Island, and...
Maps and the Ideas they Express
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...these approaches more important than in geography. This entry will be concerned mainly...map as it relates to physical and human geography, although some attention will be paid...examples from Asia, America, Africa, Australia, and Oceania. They were employed for...
Pankow, Gisela (1914-1998)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...obtaining degrees in mathematics, physics, geography, and philosophy at the University of...After giving a series of conferences in Australia, in 1956 Pankow left for the United...Tunisia, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Gisela Pankow was decorated with the...
Women's Studies
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Uganda, China to Canada, Austria to Australia, England to Egypt, South Africa to...Uganda, China to Canada, Austria to Australia, England to Egypt, South Africa to...political science, economics, psychology, geography). Science and technology have been...
Quoy, Jean-René-Constant
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...phenomena, natural history, ethnology, and geography. Freycinet established an important...Marianas, Hawaii, and the south of Australia. Returning to France via Cape Horn...left Toulon in April 1826 and visited Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and several...

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From Africa to Australia: A Geography of Murder Series: MYSTERIES
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/9/1992; ; 700+ words ; This is the last of a three-part series about mysteries as travel literature. MYSTERY, murder and detection fiction may have begun with the British, the Americans and perhaps the French, but the murder mystery is a world-wide phenomenon these days, stretching from Tibet to Tierra del Fuego. Where
Research reports from University of Western Australia provide new insights into tropical geography.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter; 8/5/2008; 700+ words ; ...scientists in Crawley, Australia report (see also Tropical Geography). "We analyse official...England. Keywords: Australia, Crawley, Life Sciences...Public Health, Tropical Geography, University of Western Australia. This article was prepared...
Soc: Geography against Australia's 2006 World Cup hopes,Rehhagel
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 4/25/2005; 582 words ; AAP Sports News (Australia) 04-25-2005 Soc: Geography against Australia's 2006 World Cup hopes,Rehhagel...winning coach today admitted simple geography was a major hindrance to Australia's hopes of reaching next year's...
Brush up on geography: Newport Beach, Australia.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 12/6/2002; 297 words ; Newport Beach, Australia is part of Pittswater, in the Northern suburbs of Sydney. The area was discovered in 1788 by Governor Philip who declared the...
Brush up on geography: Cape Londonderry, Australia.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 11/5/2002; 310 words ; Cape Londonderry lies on the far north western corner of Australia, a faraway place that can only be reached by sea or air. The surrounding area is one of outstanding natural beauty, with waterfalls...
Brush up on Geography: Kenilworth, Queensland, Australia.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 7/30/2002; 296 words ; Richard Smith tendered to set up a cattle run on the east bank of the Mary River, which runs through what is now Kenilworth, in 1850. At the time his wife was reading Sir Walter Scott's novel 'Kenilworth' and she decided to name the property after the novel. The town was surveyed off Kenilworth
Hockey spans lifetime and two hemispheres; Totino-Grace graduate Joe DeLisle followed hockey to Duluth and Australia, and he found the ups and downs to be more than just a matter of geography.(NORTH)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/11/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...collegiate hockey opportunities in Australia. "Even now I tell people and they say, `What, Australia has hockey?'-" DeLisle said. "But...during the winter months. The flight from Australia to England included a two-day stop...
Test your geography knowledge; GEOGRAPHY QUIZ ANSWERS Here are answers to the geography quiz on Page 2: 1. (a) Atlanta (b) Austin, Texas (c) West Branch, Iowa (d) Ann Arbor, Mich. (e) Fremont, Ohio 2. Hong Kong 3. Jerusalem 4. Mount Everest in Nepal 5. British Virgin Islands 6. Pakistan 7. The saguaro cactus 8. Galapagos 9. Devil's Tower in northern Wyoming 10. The Danish monarchy, which began in the 900s with Gorm the Old 11. Tasmania 12. Carlisle, Penn. 13. Texas 14. Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao in the southern Caribbean 15. (a) Asia (b) Africa (c) Australia (d) North America (e) Africa 16. (a) Helsinki (b) Ottawa (c) Brasilia (d) San Jose (e) Bern 17. Liechtenstein 18. Adirondack State Park in northeastern New York is the largest protected land mass in the 48 contiguous states. It is roughly the size of Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks combined. 19. Mexico 20. St. Petersburg
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 12/15/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...United States' first national monument by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906? 10. What is the oldest kingdom in Europe? 11. What is Australia's smallest state? 12. "Molly Pitcher" was the name affectionately given to Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, who selflessly...
Book reviews -- Geography and National Identity edited by David Hooson
Magazine article from: Economic Geography; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...identity through lectures and geography clubs (Ramon and Nogue...Two of the three chapters on Australia are markedly different from...promotion of national identity in geography, Powell and Spate admit to...with the vastly different Australia that whites have made. Their...
What can GIS do to save geography?(Edge Nodes)
Magazine article from: GEO World; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...penal colony in Australia in 1843, was appointed professor of geography at University College...Departments of geography at the universities...departments. Academic geography also appears to...having challenges in Australia, where it's...