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Central Ranges

Central Ranges is an Australian bioregion, with an area of 101,640.44 square kilometres spreading across two states and one territory: South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. It forms a large part of the World Wide Fund for Nature Central Ranges xeric scrub ecoregion.

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Central Ranges
The interim Australian bioregions, with Central Ranges in red
The interim Australian bioregions,
with Central Ranges in red
CountryAustralia
StateAustralia
Area
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101,640.44 km2 (39,243.59 sq mi)
Regions around Central Ranges
Gibson Desert Great Sandy Desert Finke
Gibson Desert Central Ranges Finke
Great Victoria Desert Great Victoria Desert Great Victoria Desert

Central Ranges (code CER) is an Australian bioregion, with an area of 101,640.44 square kilometres (39,244 sq mi) spreading across two states and one territory: South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.12 It forms a large part of the World Wide Fund for Nature Central Ranges xeric scrub ecoregion.

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  • Thackway, R and I D Cresswell (1995) An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program Version 4.0 Canberra : Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit, 1995. ISBN 0-642-21371-2