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1830
N
0
5
10 km
1860
1880
FIGURE 5.2
Clearing the bush: estimates of its extent in 1830, 1860 and 1880. By the
1920s, less than 1 per cent of the Peninsula still had old-growth forest cover. The
maps are broad estimates based on contemporary surveys.
Source: Wilson (2008, 256-257).
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