This is a book about geography. It is also about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – a fundamental set of automated ideas and concepts rooted in over 2500 years of explorations and geographic research (Dobson, 1995) and designed to provide answers to questions based on mapped data. As a practicing geographer I have long been intrigued by the idea of geographer as explorer.
Australia- a geography amply demonstrates the essential functions of the geographer – the making of meaningful descriptions and the interpretation of the distinctive place on the surface of the globe. It is thirty years and more since the last comprehensive advanced geography of Australia was published, and this new volume will be welcomed by advanced students ci geography and those in allied…