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with a hot wet summer and a warm dry winter. Median and mean annual rainfall are 327 mm and 341 mm respectively, with annual evaporation about 3500 mm. There is much variability in rainfall, with significant variation between years as well as the period when the bulk of the rain
217:(or Garadjari) People. The two groups filed overlapping native title determination applications over the area, which were determined together on 25 May 2012. The judgement of the Court was delivered on country at Talgarno, a former military site within the Anna Plains pastoral lease.
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and counting shorebirds there as part of a long-term program of monitoring the populations using the East Asian – Australasian Flyway. Since 1992 most birds caught have also been leg-flagged to discover their precise migration routes and staging sites.
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Eighty-Mile Beach Area : supporting documentation for inclusion on the register of the
National Estate : report to the Australian Heritage Commission and the Heritage Council of Western Australia, August
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The principal conservation value of Eighty Mile Beach lies in the presence of very large numbers of shorebirds, for which it is one of the most important non-breeding and migratory stop-over areas in the
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other authors – K. Fitzgerald and P. Kindleysides. Fremantle, W.A. : Dept. of
Conservation and Land Management, Marine Conservation Branch,'"Data report: MRI/CAN,EMB/RBL,EMB-66/2005"
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312:(IBA) and is one of the principal shorebird study sites in north-western Australia. It regularly supports over 400,000 shorebirds, including over 1% of the global populations of
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holders of that section of the beach. The judgement of the Court was delivered on country at
Nyiyamarri Pukurl, a site adjacent to the Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park.
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has been established on Wallal Downs at one of the access points to the beach, 250 km north of Port
Hedland and 365 km south of Broome. It is used for
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nest along Eighty-mile Beach at scattered locations between
October and April. Coastal plains in the southern part of Anna Plains Station are a stronghold for
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and it supports at least 1% of the flyway population (or 1% of the national population for non-migratory species) of 17 waders and the
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Mandora Marsh, also known as the
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of up to 9 m. The adjoining tidal mudflats vary from 1 to 5 km in width. On the landward side it is bordered by
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Biophysical resource assessment of the
Canning Coast, WA, including Roebuck Bay, Lagrange Bay and Eighty Mile Beach
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Eighty Mile Beach lies along the thin south-western extension of the
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and support high densities of red kangaroos. The western part of Wallal Downs has a dense population of
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80-mile beach as viewed from a Scoot
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Eighty Mile Beach is subject to a relatively low but increasing amount of
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1079:"Information Sheet on Ramsar Wetlands: Eighty-mile Beach"
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18:Eighty Mile Beach, Western Australia
916:Hunter v State of Western Australia
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964:. Birds Australia. Archived from
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362:Australasian Wader Studies Group
1297:Banrock Station Wetland Complex
637:. Significant grasses include
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146:Traditional ownership and usage
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1173:Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps
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390:Eighty Mile Beach lies in the
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1559:Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs
872:"Eighty Mile Beach (WA44886)"
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135:Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
1600:Beaches of Western Australia
1554:The Dales (Christmas Island)
1137:Australian Capital Territory
728:(12,000) on the floodplain.
1610:IMCRA meso-scale bioregions
1350:Interlaken Lakeside Reserve
266:Ninety Mile Beach, Victoria
82:Eighty Mile Beach at sunset
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1496:Lakes Argyle and Kununurra
1413:Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands
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207:Anna Plains pastoral lease
196:Federal Court of Australia
27:Beach in Western Australia
1595:Ramsar sites in Australia
1385:Pittwater–Orielton Lagoon
1193:Little Llangothlin Lagoon
1129:Ramsar sites in Australia
1008:Livesey, N. J. G. (1993)
870:Chris (25 October 2018).
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958:"IBA: Eighty Mile Beach"
616:Euro, or common wallaroo
286:Woomera, South Australia
209:, is shared between the
170:Eighty Mile Beach shells
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1375:Lower Ringarooma River
1365:Little Waterhouse Lake
1302:Bool and Hacks Lagoons
1168:Central Murray Forests
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995:Annotated Ramsar List.
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1506:Ord River Floodplain
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1241:Kakadu National Park
1065:on 19 September 2011
639:Whiteochloa airoides
358:Oriental pratincoles
346:greater sand plovers
334:grey-tailed tattlers
232:Bidyadanga Community
815:"Eighty-mile Beach"
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310:Important Bird Area
282:Blue Streak rockets
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772:Tourism and access
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1236:Cobourg Peninsula
1198:Macquarie Marshes
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1049:Media related to
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698:bar-tailed godwit
592:Eighty Mile Beach
574:tropical cyclones
330:red-necked stints
228:Aboriginal people
119:coastline paradox
99:Western Australia
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538:Anna Plains
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