Site and Situation

Site Features are always physical (natural)

Situation Features are always cultural (human made)

Site

This refers to the immediate area on which a settlement is found.

Generally site is taken to refer to the physical features of the landscape and includes:

Contours - height, gradient of the slope

Landforms - floodplain, undulating plain, uniform slope, valley location etc.

Coastal features - harbour, river mouth estuary, dunes beach, tidal flats etc.

Vegetation type.

Full sentence answers, using on, at or next to

Site answers are always based on physical (natural) features.

Situation

This refers to the relative location of a settlement, in particular with the surrounding region. A description of a settlement’s situation would included its direction and distance from other places or features, its position along a road, railway or latitude and longitude.

For example

Bunbury is situated within the SW coastal region of Australia

Bunbury is situated at latitude 33 degrees 20’S and longitude 115 degrees 35’E

Bunbury is situated 19 km south west of Brunswick Junction.

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