AUSTRALIA

Location. Limits of the country. Type or relief Main forms of the relief. Why are importants.

Index

Location:

Australia left part of the south hemisphere.

Latitude from 33’57 S Longitude from151’11E

Capital Canberra Sixth largest country in the world,

7.686.850 km². 8.222 isles, the biggest Tasmania. Australia is divided into six states

FLAG SHIELD

TYPES OF RELIEF:

Types plains, ranges,capes and deserts

The most important range is the Great Dividing Range

Great Dividing range divides the coastal zone and the inland zone ( In the east zone)

Great Diving range from York cabe to the Victoria state.

The most important desert is the Victoria desert.

Great Diving Range composed by Blue Montains and Australian Alps

The Australian coast is so regular, composed by a few capes and bays.

The most important gulf Carpentaria Gulf(North)

The most important bay Great Australian Bay(South)

Is one of the highest monolith in the world.

9km of diameter

348 meters

ULURU MONOLITH

Great sandy desertGreat victorya desertGreat dividing rangeMurray riverMount kosciuszko

Main forms of relief

Great sandy desert:-300.000 km2

-Vegetation: Spinifex -Fauna: Feral camel,

dingos, red cangaroos

Great victoria desert: -425.000 m2

-Consists of sandhills and grassland plains -Vegetation: Acacia neura, youngana…

-Fauna: Small marsupials, great desert skink

Great dividing range

-3500 km

-Mount kosciuzsko highest peak -New south wales victoria and queensland

Murray river

-2800 km long

-New south wales, victoria and south Australia

- The murray river mouth is on Hindmarsh island

Mount kosciuszko

- Highest peak in australia 228 m

- Paul edmund named this mountain in memory of

TadeuszKosciuszko.