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Title: Geographic Features of Australia


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Geographic Features of Australia
  • Unit 10 Notes

Bennett
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I. Australias Political Features
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Australia
  • Is divided into 2 territories and 6 states
  • States Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia,
    Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland
  • Territories Northern Territory and Australian
    Capital Territory

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Tasmania
  • What Island that is protected by the government
  • Where Island off the southeast coast of the
    mainland

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Tasmanian Devil?
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Victoria
  • What State closest to Tasmania
  • Where Southeast part of the mainland
  • Capital is Melbourne its the most urban state
    in Australia
  • The many rivers of the region are a good source
    of fresh water for farming

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South Australia
  • What State in south-central Australia
  • Where The Great Victoria Desert is located here

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Western Australia
  • What Largest state makes up 1/3rd of the
    mainland
  • Where Most of Western Australia is desert (Great
    Victoria Desert and Great Sandy Desert are
    located here)

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Great Sandy Desert
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New South Wales
  • What Has more people than any other Australian
    state
  • Where North of Victoria, on the eastern coast
  • The capital, Sydney, is the most populated city
    in Australia -- 3 1/2 million people live there!
  • Australian Capital Territory is located here

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Sydney, New South Wales
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Queensland
  • What Second largest state 7 times the size of
    England!
  • Where In the northeastern part of the mainland
  • Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast in
    the Coral Sea
  • More than half of Queenslands population lives
    in the capital Brisbane

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Brisbane
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Northern Territory
  • What Largest population of Aborigines in
    Australia
  • Where Northern coast of the mainland, between
    Western Australia and Queensland

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Australian Capital Territory
  • What The national capital, Canberra, is located
    here
  • Where Located in New South Wales

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Canberra (Australias Capital)
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II. Australias Physical Features
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Australia
  • The worlds smallest and flattest continent
  • Has Earths oldest and least fertile soils
  • Only Antarctica receives less rainfall!
  • Commonwealth of Australia also includes Tasmania,
    an island south of the mainland
  • Its surrounded by the Indian and Pacific Oceans

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  • Huge desert plains stretch across the countrys
    middle--central Australias climate is hot and
    dry
  • Milder climates along the southeastern and
    southwestern coasts
  • Most Australians live in the southeastern coastal
    region

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Great Barrier Reef
  • What Worlds largest coral reef!
  • Where Lies off the northeast coast of
    Queensland--over 1,200 miles long
  • Contains an amazing variety of marine life,
    including the worlds largest collection of coral
  • 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish,
    4,000 mollusks (snails, clams, octopi, squid)
  • Also includes rare species like the sea cow and
    the large green turtle

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Great Barrier Reef from space
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Coral Sea
  • What An important source of coral for the Great
    Barrier Reef
  • Part of the Pacific Ocean
  • Where Off the northeast coast of Australia
  • When the earths crust moved millions of years
    ago, it created the Coral Sea and the Great
    Dividing Range (largest mountain range in
    Australia)
  • Coral Sea islands are scattered over thousands of
    miles of ocean--no one lives on the islands
    except for a small group of weather specialists

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Ayers Rock
  • What A huge, reddish rock in the center of
    Australia
  • Where Very close to the geographic center of the
    continent
  • Its a monolith, which is a single, large rock
    sticking out of the earth
  • Appears reddish because its iron content rusts
    at the surface
  • Nearly 12 stories high and almost 6 miles wide!

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Ayers Rock
  • Aborigines call it Uluru, which is its official
    name
  • European surveyor visited the rock in 1873 and
    named it after Sir Henry Ayers, an English
    government official in South Australia
  • In 1950, Australia created Uluru-Kata Tjuta
    National Park around Ayers Rock
  • Both are located in the southwest corner of the
    state called Northern Territory

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Great Victoria Desert
  • What largest desert in Australia
  • Where Stretches through the states of South
    Australia and Western Australia
  • Receives only 8 to 10 inches of rain each year,
    and it never snows!
  • Some grasslands in the desert along with
    sandhills and salt

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Great Victoria Desert
  • First Europeans to cross the desert named it
    after British Queen Victoria in 1875
  • 160,000 miles long is a protected wilderness
    area
  • Very few Australians live here because its too
    hot and dry

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