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This is a page of links to Australian databases, directories, inventories and other useful resources:


Flora


Fauna
  • Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) "is being compiled as a public enquiry database and will serve as a source of taxonomic and biological information on all animal species known to occur in Australia."
  • Fish Names database: "The Australian Fish Names List was created... so that an Australian Fish Names Standard could be established to meet both the seafood industry and consumers expectations for safe food, fair-trading and truth in labelling."
  • Australian Bee Database


Conservation biota


Place names
  • Geoscience Australia: Place Names of Australia, "uses information from the Gazetteer of Australia 2004 Release."
  • VICNAMES, "holds more than 190,000 road and place names including landscape features such as mountains and rivers, bounded localities such as suburbs, towns, cities and regions, and physical infrastructure such as roads, reserves and schools."


Heritage places


Caves
  • Karst Index Database "is a searchable database of approximately 6,500 cave and karst features throughout Australia.... The database does not contain cave location information."


Shipwrecks and other disasters


Protected areas


Ecology
  • Australian Wetlands Database, "find information on Australia's Ramsar sites, wetlands of international importance listed under the Ramsar Convention, and the nationally important wetlands listed in A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia."


Geology


Images
  • PictureAustralia: "Search for people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad - all at the same time."


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