Land Systems Alligator Rivers Area

Is a reconnaissance level land resource survey (scale 1:250,000) conducted by CSIRO in 1972-73 to map and describe the Alligator Rivers Area and provide information for a balanced assessment of the implications of coincident proposals for uranium mining and a national park. The mapped information covers an area of 35,750km2 and the distribution, landforms, soils and vegetation over this area as land systems. Land System information is usually interpreted to indicate land capability for a range of land uses and provides a basis for identifying the extent and distrbution of land resources. (Land System - An area or group of areas throughout which there is a re-recuring pattern of topography, soils and vegetation. Recognised as being an assemblage of Land Units)