| Geographical position : Australian Capital Territory |
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The ACT has three contrasting landforms. In the north, where urban development has taken place, it is a low land of undulating hills including the floodplains of the Murrumbidgee and Molonglo Rivers; mostly below 600m. Beyond this are forested mountain slopes rising to 1200m divided by numerous tributaries of the Murrumbidgee. In the south and extreme west are highlands of steep ridges and mountain... |
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| Geographical position : New South Wales |
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Many fascinating landmarks make New South Wales a geographical wonderland. Many types of landscapes are encountered from the coastlines to the Outback that covers nearly every type of land form imaginable.
Natural features divide the State into four main zones extending from north to south.
1. Seaboard and coastal lowlands with a 1460 km coastline broken by few inlets of varying sizes.
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| Geographical position : Northern Territory |
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There are many very small settlements scattered across the Territory but the larger population centres are located on the single sealed road that links Darwin to southern Australia, the Stuart Highway, known to locals simply as "the track".
The Northern Territory is also home to two spectacular natural rock formations, Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), which are sacred to the local... |
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| Geographical position : Queensland |
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Queensland is essentially a state of great plains which merge into high country of sharper relief to the east and north-west. To the north, the country falls gradually to meet the coastal plain which reaches the Gulf of Carpentaria as a broad tract of salt flats. The far north-west is occupied by a rugged uplands region, rich in minerals. Eastward, the country rises towards the Great Dividing Range... |
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| Geographical position : South Australia |
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South Australia has boundaries with other States on the west, north and east and on the south is flanked by the Southern Ocean. It has a total area of 984 377 km2, representing one eighth of the Australian continent. More than 50 per cent is pastoral land, with 6.5 per cent of the State designated as national parks and wildlife reserves. Most of the population lives in the southern coastal zones below... |
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| Geographical position : Tasmania |
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Tasmania, the smallest of Australia's six states, is an island lying south of the south-east corner of the Australian mainland. Roughly triangular in shape, it is surrounded by smaller islands, the most important of which are King, Flinders and Bruny islands.
Including these smaller islands, the State has a total area of 68 331 km2 and is separated from the Australian mainland by Bass Strait, a... |
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| Geographical position : Victoria |
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ictoria's northern border is the south bank of the Murray River, the river itself being part of New South Wales. It also rests at the southern end of the Great Dividing Range, which stretches along the east coast and terminates west of Ballarat. It is bordered by South Australia to the west, and shares Australian's shortest land border with Tasmania. The official border between Victoria and Tasmania... |
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| Geographical position : Western Australia |
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The bulk of Western Australia consists of the extremely old Yilgarn craton and Pilbara craton which merged with the Deccan of India, Madagascar and the Karoo and Zimbabwe cratons of South Africa, in the Archean Eon to form Ur, one of the oldest Supercontinents on Earth (3,200-3,000 million years ago). Because the only mountain-building since then has been of the Stirling Range with the rifting from... |
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