The Australian Soil Classification handbook, first published in 1996, is a key resource for identifying soils throughout Australia.

Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia, by Leon Costermans, embraces an area that stretches from the Flinders and Mt Lofty Ranges in South Australia, across Victoria and southern New…

Communities and businesses in Mount Compass rely on the Permian sand aquifers for safe drinking, industrial and irrigation water supplies. In 2025, the Department of the Environment and Water provided…

The Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula are localised wetlands occurring in high rainfall areas in the local catchment areas of Tookayerta, Hindmarsh, Parawa, Myponga, Yankalilla, Onkparinga, Currency Creek and Finniss….

Mount Compass has an ancient geology spanning back in time some 2500 million years, including a complete glaciation in the Permian period yielding much of its present topography.

Geologically, the South Australian coast is very young, having evolved over only 1% of geological time, during the past 43 million years since the separation of Australia and Antarctica. It…