Blackwood Plateau

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Blackwood Plateau is a part of the Blackwood River landscape between the Whicher Scarp and the Scott Coastal Plain in Southwest Australia.

Blackwood River river and catchment in Western Australia, Australia

The Blackwood River is a major river and catchment in the South West of Western Australia.

Scott Coastal Plain is a plain that lies between the Blackwood Plateau and the south coast of Western Australia, east of Augusta and Cape Leeuwin. The name of the plain is derived from the river that drains the western portion of the plain, the Scott River.

It is also known as the Donnybrook sunkland. [1] [2] [3]

Notes

  1. Western Australia. Forests Department; Western Australia; McKinnell, F (1976), Water quality in the Donnybrook sunkland (Blackwood Plateau), Forests Dept, retrieved 30 January 2018
  2. McGrath, J.F; Western Australia. Forests Department; Western Australia; McGrath, J (1979), Initial fertiliser requirements of exotic eucalypts on the Donnybrook sunkland, Forests Dept, retrieved 30 January 2018
  3. Burrows, N (1980), Clearing burns in the Donnybrook Sunklands, [Forests Dept.], retrieved 30 January 2018

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