Gulf Fall and Uplands Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Area | 118,479.09 km2 (45,745.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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The Gulf Fall and Uplands, an interim Australian bioregion, is located in the Northern Territory and Queensland, [1] [2] comprising 11,847,909 hectares (29,276,820 acres). [3]
Described in IBRA5.1 [1] as "undulating terrain with scattered low, steep hills on Proterozoic and Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks, often overlain by lateritised Tertiary material; skeletal soils and shallow sands; Darwin box (Eucalyptus tectifica) and variable-barked bloodwood (Corymbia erythrophloia) woodland to low open woodland with spinifex understorey."
The abbreviation for the bioregion is GFU. [3]
IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7 | ||||
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IBRA region / subregion | IBRA code | Area | States | Location in Australia |
Gulf Fall and Uplands | GFU | 11,847,909 hectares (29,276,820 acres) | NT / Qld | |
McArthur | GFU01 | 9,330,938 hectares (23,057,250 acres) | ||
Nicholson | GFU02 | 2,516,971 hectares (6,219,570 acres) | ||
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