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Australia’s Amazing Islands

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Roots & Shoots Resource Box
Australia’s Amazing Islands

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The Australian mainland is surrounded by over 8,000 islands, ranging in size from Tasmania to tiny islets and rock stacks, tropical Indian Ocean to Southern Ocean.

In this volume we will explore eight of Australia’s most biodiverse and historically interesting island groups: Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island, Macquarie Island, Kangaroo Island, Rottnest Island (Wadjemup), Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, and K’gari (Fraser Island).

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Free Teacher Resources

Inspire your class with Australia's Amazing Islands

Download our FREE resources, for curriculum-aligned, Aboriginal-pedagogy-inspired learning sequences on the diversity of Australia’s Islands.

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Watch LIVE Island lectures from your classroom!

To celebrate the arrival of the Roots & Shoots Resource Box for Schools, we organised a series of LIVE Amazing Islands seminars in May 2022! Experts from across the world broadcast live six fun, fascinating sessions. Watch them all via the button below.

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A program of the Jane Goodall Institute Australia
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