Figures of life: Beverley Farmer's The Seal Woman as an Australian bioregional novel

• Main Author: Blair, Ruth
• Other Authors: Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster, Ezra J. Zeitler
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: University of Georgia Press 2012
• Subjects: 1200 Arts and Humanities; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:272710

The Otway plain bioregion, in the southwest of the state of Victoria, Australia, is bordered on one side by the Otway ranges and on another by the western shore of the vast Port Phillip Bay with the town of Queenscliff sitting on its furthest point.1 On one side of this outpost town is Bass Strait, a major shipping lane that separates the mainland from Tasmania (Antarctica is the next landmass to the south); on the other, formed by the small peninsula on which Queenscliff sits, is Swan Bay. Close by is the township of Point Lonsdale. Between them, Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale have three magnificent lighthouses, all still in operation.