Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

The Original Gondwanan Flora of Australia

The vegetation of Australia began its separate existence when Australia broke from Antarctica 45 million years ago. Fossil floras in South Australia, and the approximately contemporaneous floras from Anglesea in Victoria, the New south Wales Narriga Flora, demonstrate that the forests in these areas in the south of the continent were similar to those that presently exist in the refugia of the wet tropics of northeastern Australia.

Sources & Further reading

• Mary E. White, The Greening of Gondwana, the 400 Million Year story of Australian Plants, Reed, 1994
• Mary E White, After the Greening, The Browning of Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1994
• Penny Van Oosterzee, The Centre - The Natural history of Australia's Desert Regions, Reed Australia, 1993