Tiwi Cobourg
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Tiwi Cobourg | |||||||||||||
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The interim Australian bioregions, with Tiwi Cobourg in red | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Northern Territory | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 10,105.8 km2 (3,901.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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Tiwi Cobourg is an interim Australian bioregion located in the Top End of the Northern Territory of Australia.[1] It has an area of 1,010,580 hectares (2,497,200 acres),[2] which includes the Cobourg Peninsula of Arnhem Land, Croker Island, and the Tiwi Islands.[3] The bioregion is part of the Arnhem Land tropical savanna ecoregion.[4]
Tiwi Cobourg consists of two subregions – Cobourg, which includes the Cobourg Peninsula and Croker Island, and Tiwi, which includes the Tiwi Islands.[3]