Perth, Western Australia, Australia - 18th August, 2015
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth-most populous city in Australia, with an estimated population of 2.02 million (as of 30 June 2014) living in Greater Perth. The central business district of Perth is bounded by the Swan River to the south and east, with Kings Park on the western end, while the railway reserve formed a northern border. To read more about Perth, click here: .
This film features views around Perth, highlighting the city's geography, infrastructure, architecture, transport, art and cultural aspects. identified features and locations within the film are as follows: South Perth Esplanade; Views across the Swan River to Perth CBD; Mends Street Jetty; Transperth Perth to South Perth Circular Ferry; Ferry Journey from South Perth to Perth; Barrack Street Jetty; The Bell Tower; Barrack Square / Elizabeth Quay development (the building site); Riverside Drive Esplanade; View across the Swan River to South Perth; Langley Park; Victoria Avenue; Perth Concert Hall; Federal Court; St. George's Terrace; John Septimus Roe statue; Travelodge (corner of Victoria Avenue & Hay Street); Views from the 9th floor of the Travelodge; Mercedes College; Saint Mary's Cathedral; Murray Street; Forrest Place; Wellington Street; Perth Railway Station; Kings Park & Western Australia Botanic Garden; Views from Kings Park; John Oldham Park; Kwinana Freeway; and Kings Park War Memorial.
To see a film review of the Travelodge Hotel in Perth, click here: .
To see a time-lapse film of a circular ferry ride between Perth and South Perth, click here: .
To see a film of Perth Railway Station, click here: .
To see a time-lapse film taken from a ferry leaving Barrack Street Jetty and heading West down the Swan River towards Fremantle, click here:
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To see a time-lapse film from a ferry heading West down the Swan River towards Fremantle Port, click here: .
To see a film taken around the streets of Fremantle, click here: .
To see a film taken from a suburban Transperth train between Fremantle and Claremont, click here: .
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MULLEWA WA WESTERN AUSTRALIA PART 1 OF 2
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caravan trip 2007 Mullewa, Western Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mullewa townsite is located in the Mid West region of Western Australia, 450 km north of Perth and 98 km east north east of Geraldton. In 1894 the government constructed a railway from Geraldton to Mullewa, and as the land in the area was suitable for agriculture an Agricultural Area was gazetted for the area, and also a townsite gazetted in that year. Mullewa is named after Mullewa Spring, an Aboriginal name first recorded on plans of the area following settlers taking up pastoral leases in 1869 and by the surveyor John Forrest in 1873. There is much conjecture over the meaning of Mullewa, with the most accepted being place of fog.[1] [edit] Rail Service One of the Western Australian Government Railways named overnight passenger services from Perth was known as 'The Mullewa', it ceased operation in 1974. Mullewa is the junction of the railway line northeast to Meekatharra, and south to Northam.
caravan trip 2007 Mullewa, Western Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mullewa townsite is located in the Mid West region o...all » caravan trip 2007 Mullewa, Western Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mullewa townsite is located in the Mid West region of Western Australia, 450 km north of Perth and 98 km east north east of Geraldton. In 1894 the government constructed a railway from Geraldton to Mullewa, and as the land in the area was suitable for agriculture an Agricultural Area was gazetted for the area, and also a townsite gazetted in that year. Mullewa is named after Mullewa Spring, an Aboriginal name first recorded on plans of the area following settlers taking up pastoral leases in 1869 and by the surveyor John Forrest in 1873. There is much conjecture over the meaning of Mullewa, with the most accepted being place of fog.[1] [edit] Rail Service One of the Western Australian Government Railways named overnight passenger services from Perth was known as 'The Mullewa', it ceased operation in 1974. Mullewa is the junction of the railway line northeast to Meekatharra, and south to Northam.«
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Perth /pɜrθ/ is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia, with an estimated population of 1.9 million living in Greater Perth.[8] Part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, the majority of the metropolitan area of Perth is located on the Swan Coastal Plain, a narrow strip between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp, a low coastal escarpment. The first areas settled were on the Swan River, with the city's central business district and port (Fremantle) both located on its shores. Perth's metropolitan area is formally divided into a number of local government areas, which themselves consist of a large number of suburbs, extending from Two Rocks in the north to Rockingham in the south, and east inland to The Lakes.
Perth was originally founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony, and gained city status in 1856 (currently vested in the smaller City of Perth). The city is named for Perth, Scotland, by influence of Sir George Murray, then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The city's population increased substantially as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes in the late 19th century, largely as a result of emigration from the eastern colonies of Australia. During Australia's involvement in World War II, Fremantle served as a base for submarines operating in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of immigrants following the conclusion of the war was followed by a surge in economic activity as a result of several mining booms in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with Perth becoming the regional headquarters for a number of mining operations located around the state.
As part of Perth's role as the capital of Western Australia, the state's Parliament and Supreme Court are located within the city, as well as Government House, the residence of the Governor of Western Australia. Perth became known worldwide as the City of Light when city residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the earth on Friendship 7 in 1962.[9][10] The city repeated the act as Glenn passed overhead on the Space Shuttle in 1998.[11][12] Perth came 9th in the Economist Intelligence Unit's August 2012 list of the world's most liveable cities,[13] and was classified by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network in 2010 as a world city.[14]
Perth Cultural Centre is both an area of central Perth and the collective name for the main buildings of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Western Australian Museum, Alexander Library, State Records Office and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). In addition to the Perth Cultural Centre a number of other venues within the city exist including the State Theatre - home to the Black Swan State Theatre Company in Northbrige, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth in the City and the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on the foreshore.
The Perth International Arts Festival is a cultural festival that has been held annually since 1953, and has since been expanded to include the Winter Arts festival. In recent years this has been developed further to include the Perth Fringe Festival, which runs throughout the city in the lead up to the Perth International Arts Festival.
Kings Park, located in central Perth between the CBD and the University of Western Australia, is the largest inner-city park in the world,[80] at 4.06 square kilometres.
Perth Zoo, located in South Perth, houses a variety of Australian and exotic animals from around the globe. The zoo is home to highly successful breeding programs for orangutans and giraffes, and participates in captive breeding and reintroduction efforts for a number of Western Australian species, including the numbat, the dibbler, the chuditch, and the western swamp tortoise.[81]
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Broome, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
Broome is a pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, 2,200 km (1,400 mi) north of Perth. The permanent population is estimated at 14,436, growing to over 45,000 per month during the tourist season. Broome International Airport provides transport to several domestic destinations. Broome is situated on the traditional lands of the Yawuru people. It is often mistakenly thought that the first European to visit Broome was William Dampier in 1688, but he only visited the north of what was later named the Dampier Peninsula. In 1699 he explored the coast from Shark Bay to La Grange Bay, from where he headed north leaving the Australian coast. Many of the coastal features of the area were later named for him. In 1879, Charles Harper suggested that the pearling industry could be served by a port closer to the pearling grounds and that Roebuck Bay would be suitable. In 1883, John Forrest chose the site for the town, and it was named after Sir Frederick Broome, the Governor of Western Australia from 1883 to 1889. In 1889, a telegraph undersea cable was laid from Broome to Singapore, connecting to England. Hence the name Cable Beach given to the landfall site. The town has an interesting history based around the exploits of the men and women who developed the pearling industry, starting with the harvesting of oysters for mother of pearl in the 1880s to the current major cultured pearl farming enterprises. The riches from the pearl beds did not come cheaply, and the town's Japanese cemetery is the resting place of 919 Japanese divers who lost their lives working in the industry. Many more were lost at sea, and the exact number of deaths is unknown. The Japanese were only one of the major ethnic groups who flocked to Broome to work on the luggers or the shore based activities supporting the harvesting of oysters from the waters around Broome. They were specialist divers and, despite being considered enemies, became an indispensable part of the industry until World War II. Each year Broome celebrates this fusion of different cultures in an annual cultural festival called Shinju Matsuri (Japanese for festival of the pearl) which celebrates the Asian influenced culture brought here by the pearling industry. Broome was attacked at least four times by Japanese aircraft during the Second World War, and the worst attack was the 3 March 1942 air raid in which at least 88 people (mostly civilians) were killed. In 1950, Broome was the setting for Arthur Upfield novel The Widows of Broome, 12th novel featuring Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'). The West Australian mining boom of the 1960s, as well as the growth of the tourism industry, also helped Broome develop and diversify. Broome is one of the fastest growing towns in Australia. At Gantheaume Point and 30 m (98 ft) out to sea are dinosaur footprints dated as Early Cretaceous in age (approximately 130 million years ago). The tracks can be seen only during very low tide. Plant fossils are also preserved extensively in the Broome Sandstone at Gantheaume Point and in coastal exposures further north. Racial segregation was common in Broome until the 1970s. Broome entered into a sister city agreement with Taiji, Japan in 1981 as historic ties between the two towns date back to the early 1900s, when Japan became instrumental in laying the groundwork of Broome's pearling industry. The annual dolphin hunt in Taiji was the subject of the 2009 documentary The Cove, and sparked a unanimous decision by the town's council, headed by Graeme Campbell, to end the relationship with Taiji if the dolphin hunt were to continue. The decision was reversed in October 2009. Named in honour of the Java-to-Australia undersea telegraph cable which reaches shore here, Cable Beach is situated 7 km (4.3 mi) from town along a bitumen road. The beach itself is 22.5 km (14.0 mi) long with white sand, washed by tides that can reach over 9 m (30 ft). The beach is almost perfectly flat. Caution, is required when swimming from November through March as box jellyfish are present during those months. There have been cases where crocodiles have been sighted off the shore, but this is a rarity and measures are taken to prevent these situations. Four wheel drive vehicles may be driven onto the beach from the car park. This allows people to explore the beach at low tide to a much greater extent than would be possible on foot. Sunset camel rides operate daily along the beach. Cable Beach is home to one of Australia's most famous nudist beaches. The clothes optional area is to the north of the beach access road from the car park and continues to the mouth of Willie Creek, 17 km (11 mi) away. Located directly east of Cable Beach over the dunes is Minyirr Park, a coastal reserve administered by a collaboration of the Shire of Broome and the Rubibi people.
Virgin Australia - Airbus A330-200 [VH-XFE] Melbourne to Perth - Full Flight HD
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Onboard my trans continental Australian leg from Melbourne Tullamarine International to Perth Intl. Just departed before a storm was approaching off the Bass Strait. Can anyone spot the 2 airfields during my departure leg? Essedon and RAAF Point Cook .. Goodluck! Climbout was bumpy before making the west bound turn to intercept Victor V126 airway to proceed direct Portland (POD) VOR. I did have footage during the cruise over Portland, VIC but sadly it was corrupted somehow. You can see it in my Travel Documentary Preview video. I included another cruising clip as we were at level FL380 crossing the Great Australian Bight with a balmy OAT of -60C!!! Approaching Western Australia enjoy the views of Greater Perth as we lineup for runway 21 with John Forrest and Beelu National Parks in sight off to the East and suburb of Midland below. Fighting a bit of a crosswind as you notice the aileron action during short final!
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Route: DCT ML V126 POD T134 SUBUM N0444F380 T134 TAPAX Q27 HAMTN Q158 PH
STAR: PH VOR Runway 21 arrival
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Fremantle Prison-fremantle prison tours-yanchep national park
Fremantle Prison is a former Australian prison on The Terrace, Fremantle, in Western Australia. The 6-hectare (15-acre) site includes the prison, gatehouse, perimeter walls, cottages, tunnels, and prisoner art. The prison was one of 11 former convict sites in Australia inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010 as the Australian Convict Sites.[1] [2] .More info to visit
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Australia Fremantle - Jim Rogers Around the World Adventure
Leading economic expert Jim Rogers traveled to 150 countries over 150,000 miles in three years - follow his adventures here on FentonReport.
In this video Jim visits Fremantle in Australia.
Fremantle (colloquially known as 'Freo') is a port city in Western Australia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Perth, the state capital, at the mouth of the Swan River on Australia's western coast. It was the first settlement of the Swan River Colonists in 1829. It was declared a city in 1929, and has a population of approximately 26,000.
The city is named after Charles Fremantle, the English naval officer who had pronounced possession of Western Australia and who established the camp at the site. The city contains well preserved buildings and other heritage sites. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo.
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Fremantle lies on a series of limestone hills known by the Nyungar people as Booyeembara; the sandplain to the east is Gardoo. The original vegetation of the area was mainly Xanthorrhoea and eucalyptus trees, being fired annually (in late spring or summer) by the traditional owners.
Fremantle is the end of a train line that runs from Perth to Fremantle, run by the WA's Public Transport Authority.
Fremantle is subject to weather and climate relative to seaside communities - to the point that the regular sea breeze is known as the Fremantle Doctor, as it has a cooling effect to provide relief from the summer heat.
On 25 April 1829, the ship HMS Challenger under the guidance of Captain Fremantle had arrived in the waters off the Fremantle coast to make preparations for the Swan River Colony.
On 2 May 1829, Captain Fremantle formally took possession on behalf of King George IV of the entire west coast of New Holland in a ceremony conducted just near the south head of the Swan River. A few days later a camp was set up in a bay just south of the head, and Fremantle has been occupied ever since.
A month later, on 1 June Captain James Stirling on the Parmelia arrived to officially set up the Swan River Colony. Perth itself was not settled until 12 August that year.
Captain Fremantle left the colony on 25 August after providing much assistance to Stirling in setting up the colony. It was then that Stirling decided to name the port settlement 'Fremantle'.
In 1897, Irish-born engineer C. Y. O'Connor deepened Fremantle harbour and removed the limestone bar and sand shoals across the entrance to the Swan River, thus rendering Fremantle a serviceable port for commercial shipping. Fremantle still serves as the chief general seaport for Western Australia, though far greater tonnages are exported from the iron-ore ports of the Pilbara.
Fremantle has seen many industrial conflicts, the most famous of which occurred in 1919 when rioting broke out during the lumpers' strike, resulting in one death and many injuries.
During World War II, Fremantle was the second largest base for Allied submarines operating in the Pacific theatre. There were up to 125 US, 31 British and 11 Free Dutch submarines operating out of Fremantle, until the Americans moved forward to the Philippines. The movements and presence of USS Sturgeon (SS-187) is a good example of such activity.
Iconic Gardens of Stone under threat - north western Blue Mountains NSW
Skirting the western edge of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area is an beautifully scenic and biodiverse area known as the Gardens of Stone.
It is home to literally hundreds of native plant, bird and animal species, some of which are threatened to extinction. Some of these species prefer to live within the breath-taking sandstone rock formations known as 'pagodas'.
There are two types of pagodas in the area, 'round' and 'platy'. The 'platy' pagodas have iron-stone banding throughout and are significant by world standards; there is no record of them existing anywhere else. The iron-stone bandings travel vertically, horizontally and in waves through the sandstone and nobody knows how on earth they were formed! More information on these can be found at:
Conservation groups in the state of NSW, Australia are lobbying to protect 40,000hectares of this visually scenic, and biodiverse area. Unfortunately, a large section of public forest within is threatened by exclusive open-cut coal mining.
Coalpac Pty Ltd has proposed a 'consolidation' project which seeks to extend open cut and highwall mining into a large area of the publicly-owned Ben Bullen State Forest, NSW.
Should this outrageous proposal be approved, the equivalent of 2,176 football fields of predominantly old growth forest (an irreplaceable carbon sink) and wildlife habitat will be clear-felled and laid waste so as to open-cut the underlying coal.
The pagodas' features and stability may be compromised and suffer partial or even total collapse.
NOW is the time to Protect the iconic Gardens of Stone from irreversible destruction. YOUR help is needed:
Teen dies after fight outside middle school
A 13-year old girl from Attucks Middle School ended up on life support at Texas Children's Hospital two days after a fight off campus.
Kashala Francis' mother, Mamie Jackson, says her daughter told her she was attacked by two girls after school on Thursday, and that another girl later jumped in and kicked her in the head.
Jackson says when her daughter returned home Thursday afternoon, she had a bruise on her face, but insisted she was okay.
Grizfolk - Vagabonds (HD) (16 of 16) - Trails, plants, animals, & nature in WA State
Photos and video to the song “Vagabonds” by Grizfolk. Photographs and video were taken while hiking and biking in Washington State in the Pacific Northwest, primarily in Western Washington in the Greater Seattle area, during 2017. Outdoor Lens highlights the natural beauty and tranquility of trails, plants, animals, nature, rivers, landscapes, and ecosystems. Photographs and short video clips of brief interactions with nature are presented alongside songs and music to create music videos that are entertaining and informative. There is empirical evidence that interacting with nature delivers measurable benefits to people. Outdoor Lens attempts to encourage people to experience nature firsthand and take a closer look at the fascinating web of life surrounding us. By doing so, the importance of preserving our natural world becomes self-evident.
Some of the bicycling trails include: Burke-Gilman Trail, Sammamish River Trail, Green River Trail, Orting Foothills Trail, Sumner Link Trail, East Lake Sammamish Trail, Snoqualmie Valley Trail, Soos Creek Trail, Cedar River Trail, Centennial Trail, Chehalis Western Trail, Skagit Valley Trail, Mount Rainier Trails, Thurston County Rails to Trails, and Yakima Greenway Trail, Elliott Bay Trail, Alki Trail, Interurban South Trail, Interurban North Trail, John Wayne Pioneer Trail, Duwamish River Trail, I-90 Trail, 520 Bridge Trail, Eastside Trail, Cross Kirkland Connector Trail, Sacagawea Heritage Trail Loop, Cushman Trail, Scott Pierson Trail, and Ruston Way Path.
Some of the hiking trails include: Annette Lake Trail, Lake to Lake Trail, Yakima Skyline Ridge, Woodland Parks Trail, Wilderness Creek Trail, Whiskey Dick Trail, Umtanum Creek Falls Trail, Tiger Mountain Trails, Tieton River Trail, Talapus Trail No. 139, Steilacoom Park (Discovery Trail), Squak Mountain Trail, Snow Lake - Source Lake Trail, Tolt Pipeline Trail, Redmond Ridge Trail, Twin Falls State Park, Rattle Snake Ledge Trail, Ranger Hole Trail, PSE Powerline Trail Loop, Poo Poo Point Trail, Cooper River Trail, Polallie Ridge Trail, Point Defiance Park and Waterfront Loop Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Oyster Dome Trail, North Fork Quinault Trail, Mink's Lake Trail, Hoh River Rainforest Trail, Grand Lake Ridge Trail, Deer Park Trail, Cape Alava Trail, North Creek Trail, Mt. Tenneriffe Trail, Spray Park Trail, Lost Lake Trail, Emmons Moraine Trail, Burroughs Mountain Trail, Bear Gap Trail, Middle Fork Trail, Manastash Ridge Trail, Mt. Si Trail, Little Mt. Si Trail, Langus Riverfront-Smith Island Trail, Serene Lake Trail, Lake Melakwa Trail, Kendall Katwalk Trail, Issaquah-Preston Trail, Ira Springs (Mason Lake) Trail, Snoqualmie-Preston Trail, Greider Lake Trail, Grand Ridge Trail, Goose Rock Perimeter Trail, Gold Creek Trail, Gold Creek Trai, Eight Mile Lake Hike, Ebey's Landing State Park, Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge, Dosewallips State Park Trail, Discovery Park Trails, Dirty Harry Balcony Trail, Cowiche Canyon Trail, Coal Creek Trail, Boundary Bay Park - Dike Trail, Black Canyon Trail, Bear Creek Canyon Trail, and Asahel Curtis Nature Trail.
Cape of Good Hope Natural Reserve. Part 1
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The Cape Floral Kingdom is located at the southern tip of Africa.
Botanists divide the world into six floral kingdoms based on the vegetables species that grow in each one. Five of the six kingdoms occupy entire continents and their adjacent islands. The vegetation of Eurasia and North America, for example, make up a single kingdom which covers almost the entire northern hemisphere; another covers Australia; a third covers the land of south-eastern Asia and the next two are found in South America and the greatest part of Africa.
The Cape Floral Kingdom, also called the Regional Endemisms Centre or Fynbos, is the smallest one of all, occupying only 0.04% of the planet’s land surface and yet it contains a greater number of endemisms than the rest of the gigantic floral kingdoms of the world. This floral kingdom borders the cold waters of the Atlantic to the west and the milder waters of the Indian Ocean to the east. The union of the two oceans and the advanced southern latitude result in a mild climate with an average temperature of almost 17 degrees Centigrade. The entire area is protected by a network of more than 20 preserves and national parks which are responsible for protecting a natural environment which is as much rich and endemic as it is unknown to most people.
The western coast of South Africa is bathed by currents from the Benguela which originates in the Antarctic Ocean. When it hits the Sub-Antarctic waters along its northerly course, it submerges beneath them until it has almost reached the continental mass of Africa where it is pushed upward, carrying with it a vast amount of nutrients.
The Cape of Good Hope marks the transition point for ships between the southern Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
Although not the most southerly point on the continent, as it is often mistakenly considered, the Cape is a historic place. The first European to go around it by ship was the Portuguese Baltolomeu Días in 1487, marking the opening of the maritime route to the Orient. The poor weather conditions and the terrible danger of the ocean and its shallows for navigation led Días to baptise it the Cape of Storms, but King John II of Portugal, seeing the commercial importance of the new route which opened the way to the Indies, subsequently renamed it the Cape of Good Hope.
While the Cape in particular and the South African Coast in general are dangerous for navigation, for wildlife they are an authentic paradise.
The wealth of the union between the two oceans and the contribution of nutrients from the Benguela current produce an extraordinary biodiversity.
Here live sea bears, jackass penguins, sea birds, otters, the mountain zebra, baboons and chakmas or black papions and also endangered species such as the black-eyed parrot.
Despite the variety and importance of the different animal species which populate the entire region, in the Regional Endemisms Centre or Fynbos, plants are the real stars. While in the northern hemisphere, glaciations destroyed many vegetable species up to only 10,000 years ago, there have been no glaciations in this region in the last 115 million years. This climatic stability, together with the rough topology, have made possible the uninterrupted development and the exception richness of the vegetable life at Fynbos.
On 5 June 1998, World Environment Day, the idea proposed in 1929 by the South African Wildlife Society became a reality. President Nelson Mandela announced that the Cape peninsula would be converted into a national park. 30,000 hectares sheltering more than 2,285 plant species, 105 of which are endemic, and more animal endemisms than anywhere else, make this the most biologically diverse preserve in the world.
President Mandela called the new park South Africa’s gift to the Earth, and noted that while in prison on nearby Robben Island, the view of Table Mountain included in the Cape area, was a beacon of hope for him.
The national park on the Cape peninsula now protects the heart of the smallest and richest floral kingdom on the planet. For hundreds of unique species, endemic to this remote corner of the world, it has become, as it was for President Mandela, a beacon of hope guaranteeing survival for future generations.
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Cape of Good Hope Natural Reserve. Part 3
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▶ Spanish video:
The Cape Floral Kingdom is located at the southern tip of Africa.
Botanists divide the world into six floral kingdoms based on the vegetables species that grow in each one. Five of the six kingdoms occupy entire continents and their adjacent islands. The vegetation of Eurasia and North America, for example, make up a single kingdom which covers almost the entire northern hemisphere; another covers Australia; a third covers the land of south-eastern Asia and the next two are found in South America and the greatest part of Africa.
The Cape Floral Kingdom, also called the Regional Endemisms Centre or Fynbos, is the smallest one of all, occupying only 0.04% of the planet’s land surface and yet it contains a greater number of endemisms than the rest of the gigantic floral kingdoms of the world. This floral kingdom borders the cold waters of the Atlantic to the west and the milder waters of the Indian Ocean to the east. The union of the two oceans and the advanced southern latitude result in a mild climate with an average temperature of almost 17 degrees Centigrade. The entire area is protected by a network of more than 20 preserves and national parks which are responsible for protecting a natural environment which is as much rich and endemic as it is unknown to most people.
The western coast of South Africa is bathed by currents from the Benguela which originates in the Antarctic Ocean. When it hits the Sub-Antarctic waters along its northerly course, it submerges beneath them until it has almost reached the continental mass of Africa where it is pushed upward, carrying with it a vast amount of nutrients.
The Cape of Good Hope marks the transition point for ships between the southern Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
Although not the most southerly point on the continent, as it is often mistakenly considered, the Cape is a historic place. The first European to go around it by ship was the Portuguese Baltolomeu Días in 1487, marking the opening of the maritime route to the Orient. The poor weather conditions and the terrible danger of the ocean and its shallows for navigation led Días to baptise it the Cape of Storms, but King John II of Portugal, seeing the commercial importance of the new route which opened the way to the Indies, subsequently renamed it the Cape of Good Hope.
While the Cape in particular and the South African Coast in general are dangerous for navigation, for wildlife they are an authentic paradise.
The wealth of the union between the two oceans and the contribution of nutrients from the Benguela current produce an extraordinary biodiversity.
Here live sea bears, jackass penguins, sea birds, otters, the mountain zebra, baboons and chakmas or black papions and also endangered species such as the black-eyed parrot.
Despite the variety and importance of the different animal species which populate the entire region, in the Regional Endemisms Centre or Fynbos, plants are the real stars. While in the northern hemisphere, glaciations destroyed many vegetable species up to only 10,000 years ago, there have been no glaciations in this region in the last 115 million years. This climatic stability, together with the rough topology, have made possible the uninterrupted development and the exception richness of the vegetable life at Fynbos.
On 5 June 1998, World Environment Day, the idea proposed in 1929 by the South African Wildlife Society became a reality. President Nelson Mandela announced that the Cape peninsula would be converted into a national park. 30,000 hectares sheltering more than 2,285 plant species, 105 of which are endemic, and more animal endemisms than anywhere else, make this the most biologically diverse preserve in the world.
President Mandela called the new park South Africa’s gift to the Earth, and noted that while in prison on nearby Robben Island, the view of Table Mountain included in the Cape area, was a beacon of hope for him.
The national park on the Cape peninsula now protects the heart of the smallest and richest floral kingdom on the planet. For hundreds of unique species, endemic to this remote corner of the world, it has become, as it was for President Mandela, a beacon of hope guaranteeing survival for future generations.
Top 10 Scary Australian Urban Legends
Top 10 Scary Australian Urban Legends
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Welcome back everyone to Most Amazing Top 10 - we are back with another Urban Legends video, I have been taking the most requested country in each comments section and making that my next video and today is the land down under. Australia is unique in many ways, from its landscape to its wildlife - but some things never change no matter where you are in the world. Things that go bump in the night, scary spirits and the supernatural, these are stories which follow you to the ends of the Earth - my name is Danny Burke and this is the top 10 scary Australian Urban Legends
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Beautiful Washington. Episode 1 - Scenic Nature Documentary Film about Washington State
Meet the first scenic nature documentary series in the history of Washington State in fantastic quality. Our goal is to bring Washington State's beauty into your homes. Enjoy fabulous, gorgeous and fascinating scenery! This movie will help you to choose the place to visit in WA, the next hike to take and explore our diverse state!
The first part of “Beautiful Washington” takes you on a virtual tour around:
00:30 - Mount Rainier National Park
12:05 - Leavenworth Area
19:39 - Diablo Lake Area
23:39 - Spokane Area
32:34 - Palouse Falls State Park
34:52 - Mount Adams Area
37:50 - San Juan Islands & Puget Sound Region
53:59 - Skagit Valley. Tulip Festival
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