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Australian Immigration And Its Effects - Term Papers

Australian Immigration And Its Effects

Australia is an island continent which is geographically isolated from
the rest of the world. This has resulted in the evolution of many unique plants
and animals and the development of a very fragile ecosystem. This ecosystem has
been influenced by human immigration for many thousands of years.
The original immigrants were the Aborigines who are thought to have
migrated to Australia from Asia between 50 and 100 thousand years ago. These
primitive people learned to live in the inhospitable environment of Australia
with very little effect. Their major environmental impact was from the use of
controlled burning of the land. Over the years they had learned the benefit of
periodic fires ...

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almost 3,500 years ago. The dingo rapidly became the top predator and
is probably the cause of the disappearance of the Tasmanian wolf and the
Tasmanian devil from Australia. They will hunt down almost anything but they
are not known to attack humans. They will attack kangaroos, wombats, rabbits,
and even lizards. After the settlers arrived and the sheep were brought in, the
dingo started to hunt the sheep. The sheep were much easier for them to get.
As a result of this the sheep grazers built a 3,307 mile long fence to separate
the sheep from the dingo. A $20 US bounty is now placed on the pelt of each
dingo.
European immigrants did not come to Australia until after April 29, 1770
when captain James Cook landed in Botany Bay and made the first claim for
England on the eastern part of the island. He called it New South Wales.
In 1787, England started their first colony in Australia which was a
penal colony since England's prisons were very overcrowded. That year, on ...

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Added: 4/24/2007 07:06:33 AM
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