Essay On Numinbah Valley

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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Location Numinbah Valley is an area and suburb approximately forty-eight kilometres south west of the Gold Coast, in south eastern Queensland, Australia. Numinbah Valley covers approximately 116 kilometres square¬¬. The area is in the south-east part of Queensland and is part of the Gold Coast Hinterland. Numinbah Valley is the upper catchment for the Tweed River. 1.2 Background. The Tweed Volcano in north-eastern New South Wales erupted 23 million years ago and became extinct approximately 10 million years ago. Aboriginals inhabited Numinbah Valley for approximately 9000 years. Despite aboriginals in the valley, the valley remained largely unexplored until 1845 when timber cutters seeking valuable red cedar …show more content…

1.4 Understanding the Inland Water System of the Nerang River.   2.0 METHOD OF RESEARCH. 2.1 Primary Resources. Primary sources used in this paper are those which were collected by the author. The data collected from Natural Bridge and Numinbah Hall may not be completely accurate as it only gave a representation of the results from that particular day, which may differ to another day’s results depending on the amount of rain, part of the river reviewed, biased sampling, etc. 2.2 Secondary Resources. Secondary sources used in this paper are those which were not written by the author.   3.0 STATEMENT OF FINDINGS. 3.1 Land use in the Upper Nerang Catchment. 3.2 Stop 1: Natural Bridge. 3.2.1 Description. Natural Bridge is an area and suburb in the Gold Coast hinterland in south-eastern Queensland covering approximately 43 square kilometres, with a perimeter of approximately 32 kilometres. Directly north of Natural Bridge is the Numinbah Valley, east of it is Springbrook, west of is Binna Burra, and south of it lies the Queensland/New South Wales border. Natural Bridge’s terrain is largely made up of hills and is covered with trees apart from areas which have suffered from large scale land clearing. (Figure

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