Nandewar

Nandewar
Australia
Nandewar ranges (looking east from the Brigalow Belt South)
The interim Australian bioregions,
with Nandewar in red
Area 27,019.77 km2 (10,432.4 sq mi)
Localities around Nandewar:
Brigalow Belt South Brigalow Belt South New England Tablelands
Brigalow Belt South Nandewar New England Tablelands
Brigalow Belt South Sydney Basin NSW North Coast

Nandewar (code NAN),[1] an interim Australian bioregion, is located in New South Wales and Queensland,[2] and comprises an area of 2,701,977 hectares (6,676,730 acres)[1], surrounded by the Brigalow Belt South to the west, south-west and north-west, and to the east by the New England Tablelands.[3] This is a region of hills on Palaeozoic sediments and lithosols[2] and of Eucalyptus albens woodlands and summer rainfall.[2]

Regions

In the IBRA system Nandewar has the code of (NAN), and it has four sub-regions:[4]

IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7
IBRA subregionIBRA
code		Area
haacres
Nandewar Northern ComplexNAN01962,254 2,377,780
Inverell BasaltsNAN02230,854 570,450
KaputarNAN0378,307 193,500
PeelNAN041,430,562 3,535,000


See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, Version 7: regions" (PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "IBRA7 subregions and codes" (PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2018.


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