Queensland from Space

Queensland is a large State of over 1.7 million square kilometres in area with extensive vegetation resources covering over 72 million hectares of woodland and forest ecosystems.

Here is a small sample of the diversity of landscapes in Queensland.

Take a tour of Queensland or view the thumbnails below:

	From the Ground	From Space
1.Rainforest - Fraser Island	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
2. City and suburbs - Brisbane	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
3.Wet Tropical Rainforest - Bellenden Ker Range	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
4.Termite Plains - Lakefield NP, Cape York Peninsula	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
5.Mulga Woodland	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
6."Big Red" sandune - Simpson Desert	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
7.Sand dunes and Cooper channels - Windorah	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
8.Rainforest to Beach - Cape York Peninsula	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
9.Darling-Riverine Plain - south east of Dirranbandi	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
10.Broadacre crop, Grain Sorghum - Gatton	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
11.Mitchell grass on stony downs - near Lake Yamma Yamma	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
12.Eucalypt woodland - near Jardine River, Cape York	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
13.Dingo or Barrier Fence	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
14.Gulf Plains - near Burketown, Gulf of Carpentaria	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
15.Gulf Savannah - near Croydon	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
16.Fodder Cropping - near Lakeland Downs	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
17.Granite Mountains - Mt Norman, Girraween NP	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
18.Blacksoil and bulldust - Qld/SA border near Cooper Creek	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
19.Indian Head - Fraser Island	click to enlarge	click to enlarge
20.Black Mountain - south west of Cooktown	click to enlarge	click to enlarge

Photographs by Robert Hassett.

To find information about landcover change in Africa, visit Africover, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Land Cover assessment based on Remote Sensing for the whole of Africa.

Last updated 23 May 2002

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