slacker
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Based on what I have just seen on Google Earth (and a few other pictures of the area on the web), there appears to be a graduated sclerophyll forest boundary between two very different habitats that is about 16km from both Mossman and the peak of Mt Carbine on a straight line between them. On the Mt Carbine side, the habitat appears to be savannah and on the Mossman side, it appears to be rainforest (but I won't know that until early September when I will visit the area for the first time.) Between the savannah and the thick forest (near the half-way point between Mt Carbine and Mossman) the forest appears to thin out gradually to savannah.
So, to suggest an answer to Slacker's question, if the python was found in the savannah habitat, it would be consistent to describe it as "Mt Carbine locale" and if it was found in the rainforest habitat, it would be consistent to describe it as "Mossman locale", since the savannah is closer to Mt Carbine and the rainforest is closer to Mossman.
distinct. The search area, for anyone that was interested, would still be several hundreds of square kilometres in area.
My guess is that there are at least 4 to 6 macro-habitats ( 'very different whole lots of nothing', rather than 'a whole lot of nothing', if you like) between Mossman and Mt Carbine - urban, cane farms, rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest (maybe), dry sclerophyll forest (maybe) and sclerophyll savannah.
I think I know the place you're talking about, I was just looking at it myself. For the record, I meant "a whole lot of nothing" in the way of named locations that's in the direct line between the two locations in question.