SYDNEY Late last year, a stint of record-setting rain across south-east Australia left rivers overflowing and caused devastating flooding and mass evacuations. Yet an unusual silver lining emerged from the floods.
In the Gayini Wetlands, a remote floodplain about 800km south-west of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, the deluge led to the sudden creation of a vast inland sea.
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