New South Wales contains 549 separate Protected Areas with a total land area of 4,953,271 hectares (6.18% of the state’s area). 150 of these are National parks, totalling 4,172,308 hectares (5.21% of the state’s area).
... and navigability of this strait. The Russians made their first permanent settlement on Sakhalin in 1857 as a Czarist penal colony; but the southern part of the ...