THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE EASTERN GOLDFIELDS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Introduction

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Introduction: The Jackson-Kalgoorlie Study Area (Figure 1) is a rectangle of approximatel' 21,500 km2 situated between 30° and 31°S and 118°30' and 1200 45'E north east of Southern Cross in the central western section of the Eastern Goldfields. It comprises the whole of the 1:250,000 geological survey Jackson sheet, SH 50-1' (Chin and Smith 1981), and the western half of the Kalgoorlie sheet, SH 51- (Kriewaldt 1969). It is located predominantly in the Coolgardie phytogeographi region in the South-western Interzone between the South-West and Eremaea Botanical Provinces (Beard 1980).