Stony Plains

Stony Plains, an interim Australian bioregion, comprises 13,166,372 hectares (32,534,810 acres), and is part of two state/territories of Australia: the Northern Territory and South Australia.[1][2]

Finke Australia
The interim Australian bioregions, with Stony Plains in red
Area	131,663.72 km^2 (50,835.6 sq mi)
Localities around Finke: Central Ranges Finke Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields Great Victoria Desert Stony Plains Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields Gawler Gawler Flinders Lofty Block

The bioregion has the code STP.[3] There are seven subregions.[3]

IBRA regions and subregions: IBRA7
IBRA region / subregion	IBRA code	Area	States	Location in Australia
Stony Plains	STP	13,166,372 hectares (32,534,810 acres)	SA
Breakaways	STP01	2,444,385 hectares (6,040,210 acres)
Oodnadatta	STP02	2,593,717 hectares (6,409,210 acres)
Murnpeowie	STP03	2,910,385 hectares (7,191,720 acres)
Peake-Dennison Inlier	STP04	158,623 hectares (391,970 acres)
Macumba	STP05	693,282 hectares (1,713,140 acres)
Witjira	STP06	1,677,111 hectares (4,144,230 acres)
Baltana	STP07	2,688,870 hectares (6,644,300 acres)

See also

• Geography of Australia

References

1. Environment Australia. "Revision of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) and Development of Version 5.1 - Summary Report". Department of the Environment and Water Resources, Australian Government. Archived from the original on 5 September 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2007. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
2. IBRA Version 6.1 data
3. "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Commonwealth of Australia. 2012. Retrieved 13 January 2013.

Further reading

• 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