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The South Eastern Highlands is an interim Australian bioregion in eastern Australia, that spans parts of the states and territories of New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and Victoria. The bioregion comprises and is approximately long. The Australian Alps as well as the South West Slopes bound the region from the south and west of the Sydney Basin, as well as the bioregions of the South East Corner. Several regional cities make up part of the bioregion such as in the north, Queanbeyan and Yass in the centre, in the east, and the town of Bombala in the south. The South Eastern Highlands are an important source of gold, copper, tin, oil, and natural gas. The region is known for the mountains and plateaus that parallel the east and southeast territory of Australia. This forms the Continental Divide, which includes Tasmania, and rises to Mount Kosciuszko, Australia’s highest known peak at tall. ==Regional history== The South Eastern Highlands have been occupied by many groups of people within history. The region is divided into different groups. The Ngunawal and Gandangara groups occupy the northern part. Ngarigo groups lives in the southern and center of the region. The Walbanga group also live in the center along with the Ngarigo group. In the western part of the highlands, a group named the Wagal occupied that part of the highlands.〔 The South Eastern Highlands have many resources that provide food for the groups that live there. Some of the foods that the people relied on were the indefinite quantity of vegetables that were available to the people. The highlands also provided the people yam daisy and wattleseads that were very useful during the months of July and August. Other resources were fish, crayfish, possums, and other larger animals that people could hunt. This really gave occupiers a reason to stay in the highlands because they had everything they needed to survive. During the 1820s, the Europeans began to settle in the South Eastern Highlands because they saw potential in the land. While the Europeans settled in the highlands, this disrupted the lifestyle of the people living there and their resources. There resources were being badly affected by this. There were countless reports on how there was a shortage of water which would later effect the animals that rely on this resource. This change affected the people because now there was a shortage of water and animals such as fish and surrounding animals that would constantly come and drink water would eventually die out. Having the Europeans settle in on this land not only affected the resources of the people but started to spread dangerous diseases to the population. Some of the diseases that were spread were the influenza epidemic and syphilis. Although there was a lot of damaging effects to having the Europeans settle in the highlands, there were a lot of positive things that came out of this. One of the positive things was that the Europeans discovered copper in the bioregion which later became a place for cooper mining. They also found gold, silver, antimony and zinc which really helped their economy going. Miners who would mine in the area would grow crops such as apple, cherry and plum trees. This gave people more resources and benefited them a lot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「South Eastern Highlands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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