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# Nullarbor Plain #

A vast semi-desert limestone plain, about 750 km long by 200 km wide, reaching the central south coast of Australia.
One version of the story of the naming of the plain goes that Nullarbor is Latin - "nullus arbor" - no trees. (The other version is that it is an Aboriginal name. I don't know which is correct.)
No trees is mostly quite correct. On much of the plain there's not a shrub over about 60 cm tall.
no trees
"no trees"		 Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs
Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs		 Small-leaf Sea-heath (Frankenia sessilis)
Small-leaf Sea-heath (Frankenia sessilis)		 Nullarbor Plain
Nullarbor Plain		 Desert Hop-bush (Dodonaea stenozyga)
Desert Hop-bush (Dodonaea stenozyga)
Desert Hop-bush (Dodonaea stenozyga)
Desert Hop-bush (Dodonaea stenozyga)		 Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs
Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs		 cliff-top vegetation
cliff-top vegetation		 a daisy (Brachyscome tatei)
a daisy (Brachyscome tatei)		 no trees
"no trees"
Nullarbor flowers
Nullarbor flowers		 Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs
Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs		 shrub thicket
shrub thicket		 bluebush
bluebush		 Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs
Bunda (Nullarbor) Cliffs
Round-leaved Pigface
Round-leaved Pigface		 Nullarbor Plain escarpment
Nullarbor Plain escarpment		 Roe Plain & Nullarbor scarp
Roe Plain & Nullarbor scarp		 Roe Plain & Nullarbor scarp
Roe Plain & Nullarbor scarp		 Roe Plain
Roe Plain
Nullarbor escarpment
Nullarbor escarpment		 Nullarbor escarpment
Nullarbor escarpment		 Roe Plain shrub thicket
Roe Plain shrub thicket

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