Virtual Fieldwork Activity: Wilsons

Promontory
Your task: To conduct a virtual fieldwork activity based on your knowledge and
understanding of landform and landscape processes, and our previous work on the
Wilson's Promontory Region.
1. Colour in the Wilsons Promontory region on the map below. Locate Tidal River on
your map. Include all aspects of BOLTSS in your illustration.

2. What type of rock features predominantly in the landscape at Wilsons

Promontory?
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3. How did this rock originate? Discuss the impacts of erosion and disposition in your
answer. Draw an annotated diagram on the back of this page.
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4. Refer to the following photographs of various landscapes at Wilsons Promontory

A. Vegetation

C. Granite rocks a Oberon Bay

B. Normal Bay

4.1. What is the nature of the landscape based on landforms and features visible in
the photographs?
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4.2 Outline two landform features and explain how they were formed in your answer
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5. A view from Vereker Outlook

5.1. From the images above and your previous learning, in what ways did Indigenous
people manage to survive off the land millions of years ago?
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5.2. Explain what you know about the value of Wilsons Promontory to Aboriginal
Peoples.
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6. What management plans are currently in place to ensure the proper care of the
Wilsons Promontory region?
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7. Create a Dreamtime story based on one landform at Wilsons Promontory.

Consider the processes that took place in its formation and how you could reflect
this in a creative and meaningful story.
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Include an illustration in the section below: