The Australian Rainforest (spaces for pictures/diagrams)

INTRODUCTION AUSTRALIA Background <Tab/> Australia is situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, and is south of the Asia, hence its name meaning south of Asia. It is an island continent and is completely located in the southern hemisphere. Australia is also the only continent occupied entirely by a single nation. Tasmania, a small island that is off the southeast coast, is also a part of the continent of Australia, Australasia …

…leaving no Rainforest and no nutrients to grow anything on. The farmers if they had learnt as the Aztecs did that slow burning the wood, like in the manufacturer of Charcoal can leave the soil fertile for not one or two years but two hundred years. The chunkiness of the wood helps retain the soil, which with out tree roots washes away easily, leading to the ultimate destruction of the oldest rainforest in the world.