Nullarbor Plain was wet and forested 3 to 5 million years ago, research reveals

By Peter Spinks
Updated February 10 2016 - 2:13am, first published 1:15am
Flat and devoid of trees, the Nullarbor Plain is a very different place today from its wet-gum-and-banksia past, more than 3 million years ago. Photo: Adam Bruzzone
Flat and devoid of trees, the Nullarbor Plain is a very different place today from its wet-gum-and-banksia past, more than 3 million years ago. Photo: Adam Bruzzone

Not for nothing does Nullarbor Plain mean "no trees": the vast expanse, spanning 200,000 square kilometres along the Great Australian Bight, with the Great Victoria Desert to its north, supports little more than sparse saltbush shrubs and clumps of hardy grasses.

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