Introduction

The Internet Resources

Organ Pipes National Park, Melbourne

• Organ Pipes National Park: Excursion Guide - A site to help prepare and conduct a school excursion to the Organ Pipes.

• Parks Victoria: Organ Pipes - Brochure about the Organ Pipes National Park and its geology.

Geological information

• Volcanic Rocks - Shows nice pictures of many types of rocks. Identifies location so f some other organ pipes in the UK.

• Geology of the Organ Pipes - Geological resources to understand the organ pipes.

• Online Map Creation - When you select the projection you want, and the latitude and longitude this program provides a map of the area you want.

• Folds and Faults - Definitions of geologic terms.

Other worldy organ pipes

• Pipestone Canyon - Example of organ pipes in the State of Washington, USA.

• Journey through Namibia - A couple travelled through Namibia in 2000 and commented on the organ pipes there. Nice photo included.

• Organ Pipes: Mt Cargill Road, Dunedin, NZ. - New Zealand tramping (bushwalking) notes. Nice photos.

• Fingal's Cave - A famous sea cave in Scotland with basalt columns (organ pipes)

• Giant's Causeway - Northern Ireland coastal feature. This site reports a story about their origin, and has a nice photograph.

• Swartifoss - Swartifoss meand 'black waterfall' in Icelandic.

Management Plans

• Management Plan for Organ Pipes - 1998 plan to ensure conservation, recreation and tourism at the Organ Pipes.

• Heritage Case Study of Organ Pipes - Simple description of geology of organ pipes. Argues that the development of the park is unsympathetic to the presentation of the geological features.

• Management Plan for Mt Wellington, Tasmania - This is a useful resource against which to compare the Management Plan for the Organ Pipes.

• Environmental Auditing - Advice from the Environmental Protection Society about a scientific approach to finding out what is in the environment being looked at.