scholarly journals Alessandro Malaspina: An Italian/Spaniard at Port Jackson

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Laura Olcelli
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
The South ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Spanish Colonies ◽  
Port Jackson

Tuscan-born and Spanish-trained Alessandro Malaspina (1754-1810) captained the most significant scientific expedition ever launched by Spain in the years 1789-1794. After a survey of the Spanish colonies in America, he directed the course of the Descubierta towards the South Pacific and anchored at Port Jackson on 11 March 1793. In my essay I will scrutinize the New South Wales leg of Malaspina’s voyage account, comparing 'Viaje político-científico alrededor del mundo' (the original 1885 Spanish edition) and 'Journal of a Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina' (its 2001 English translation), and integrating them with the captain’s secret reports. The examination of Malaspina’s comments on the infant colony will simultaneously expose the Spanish attitude to early British colonialism in New South Wales, and help assess Malaspina’s complex role as the first explorer who reached Terra Australis from the Italian peninsula.

scholarly journals Norfolk Island and Australia: a history of uneasy relationship

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-231
Author(s):  
S. E. Pale ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
History Of

This article is about the complicated relations between Norfolk Island located in the South Pacific and Australia that possesses the island as its ‘external territory’. Over the past century Australia and its tiny but strategically important possession have overcome many difficult moments, the most dramatic of which took place in 2015, when the Australian Parliament ended self-government on the island and put Norfolk under the laws of New South Wales thus making it part of Australia.

Cycad killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? Dieback of Macrozamia communis on the south coast of New South Wales

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Keith L. McDougall ◽  
Penelope J. Gullan ◽  
Phil Craven ◽  
Genevieve T. Wright ◽  
Lyn G. Cook
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Scale Insect ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
The South ◽  
Extreme Caution ◽  
South Wales

The association of an armoured scale insect (a diaspidid) with dieback of a population of a native cycad (Macrozamia communis L.A.S.Johnson) was investigated on the south coast of New South Wales. The diaspidid was found to be undescribed but morphologically similar to oleander scale – here we call it Aspidiotus cf. nerii. It is probably native to Australasia and its current known distribution is within Murramarang National Park (MNP). Aspidiotus cf. nerii has been abundant on symptomatic M. communis at MNP over at least the past decade and has spread to new parts of the park. In population studies of infested and uninfested areas we found that, although both areas had populations with reverse J curves showing dominance of seedlings, mortality of seedlings and caulescent plants was significantly higher in infested sites. Infested areas had been burnt less frequently than uninfested areas. Fire does not appear to eradicate the diaspidid but may reduce its effects enough for plants to recover. We recommend further research into the use of fire as a management tool. Although other factors may be contributing to the severity of the dieback, we suggest there is sufficient evidence for the diaspidid to be regarded as the primary cause of dieback in M. communis in MNP, regardless of its origin. Given the occurrence of similar diaspidids on cultivated plants in botanic gardens, translocation of threatened Macrozamia species using plants grown in nurseries should be undertaken with extreme caution.

Drosophilidae of Australia. 4. Mycodrosophila

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 261 ◽  
Author(s):  
IR Bock
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
East Asian ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
First Time

The Australian Mycodrosophila fauna comprises 21 species distributed in northern and eastern Australia to southern New South Wales. Only one species, M. argentifrons Malloch, is previously described from Australia; the south-east Asian species M. separata (de Meijere) is recorded for the first time. The remaining 19 species are new: adequate material has been available to permit the description and naming of 18 of them.

The vegetation of the south-eastern Riverina, New South Wales. II. The disclimax communities

1953 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 548 ◽  
Author(s):  
CWE Moore
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
General Description ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales

A general description of the disclimax communities in the south-eastem Riverina is presented.The disclimax communities are essentially the pastures developed on clearing some or all of the trees in the climax communities and grazing the herbaceous stratum. These pastures are discussed in relation to soil and the grazing factor. Notes on the occurrence of weeds and the possibilities of pasture improvement are given.

Races and Populations of the Australian Pilchard, Sardinops neopilchardus (Steindachner)

1951 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Boundary Zone ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Cook Strait ◽  
Australian Fish ◽  
Port Jackson ◽  
Western Australian ◽  
Abundance Fluctuations

The evidence of taxonomic differentiation in the Australian pilchard is reviewed. Three major groups (called races), located respectively in eastern, south-eastern, and south-western Australian waters, are distinguished by differences in growth rate. The boundary zone of the two former is near the New South Wales-Victoria bolder, but it is not certain to which of the two latter races the South Australian fish belong. The two former races are sukdivided into smaller, more or less separate stocks (populations), which are distinguished mainly by differences in mean number of vertebrae and in abundance fluctuations. There are at least two such groups in the eastern race, which meet between Port Jackson and Jervis Bay, and at least two in the south-eastern race. The pilchards of Cook Strait, New Zealand, are probably distinct from those of any Australian locality.

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