TY - GEN N2 - George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries - who satirised him as the discoverer of the inland sea - in understanding the Australian climate. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his repeated warnings about the threat of drought were scorned. AB - George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows the breaking of drought. His experience put him decades ahead of his contemporaries - who satirised him as the discoverer of the inland sea - in understanding the Australian climate. When he attempted to adapt the pattern of settlement to climatic reality by defining the border of the zone of reliable rainfall, his repeated warnings about the threat of drought were scorned. T1 - Nature's line :George Goyder : surveyor, environmentalist, visionary / AU - Sheldrick, Janis M., CN - GE56.G69 N1 - First published 2013. N1 - Reprinted 2014. ID - 1403352 KW - Surveyors KW - Architecture and climate KW - Environmentalists KW - Rain and rainfall SN - 9781743054673 (e-book) TI - Nature's line :George Goyder : surveyor, environmentalist, visionary / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6244644 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6244644 ER -