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This page presents a grab-bag of links to other technical information.
Ski Injuries - www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/muarc100.html
- Monash University Accident Research Centre's discussion of XC ski injuries
UHF Repeater Stations - www.exploroz.com/Interact/UHFRepeatersIndex.asp
- Page containing a list of UHF repeater stations in Australia, and their locations and frequencies
Snakebite - www.flyingdoctor.net/monographs/snakebite.pdf
- Royal Flying Doctor Service monograph on snakebite
Map Datums - www.ga.gov.au/nmd/geodesy/datums/
- Geoscience Australia's very clear and accessible explanation of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94)
Online Geodetic Calculations - www.ga.gov.au/nmd/geodesy/datums/calcs.jsp
- Geoscience Australia's online calculations & downloadable spreadsheets page performs geodetic calculations and transformations, for example to convert lat/long data to UTM coordinates. Includes my favourite spatial conversion: the Molodensky Transformation
Weather Forecasts - www.bom.gov.au
- Get the latest weather forecasts here
Tide Predictions - www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/tides/
- Predicted tide times from the Bureau of Meteorology
Sunrise & Sunset Times - www.ga.gov.au/nmd/geodesy/astro/
- Geoscience Australia provides sunset/sunrise times for anywhere in the world for a given date
Google Earth - www.earth.google.com
- Google Earth is free data-streaming software giving broadband users the ability to pull up high-resolution satellite imagery (10m pixels) and other geographic data across the world. Includes digital elevation models allowing you to tilt the satellite images to create realistic 3D visualisations of terrain; quite helpful for expedition planning, as you can see the ground you'll be covering.
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