be taken with the soil. Some grazing land became desert when the long cycles that influence rainfall in Australia turned to drought.Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories. Most inland borders follow lines of longitude and latitude. The largest State, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe. Australia is huge. There are sheep-stations bigger than European principalities. Australia is the world s sixth-largest country and smallest continent. It s area is 7,686,850 sq km which in the imperial scale translates to 4,776,385 miles. You could fit 30-odd Great Britain in Australia. The island-continent s coastline is 25,760 km around and if you drove around it you could proudly tell people you had driven a very long way indeed - 16,006 miles, to be precise.
% of Australia is sea-level flat. There sa few mountains in the south-east that snow falls on for a few months and some tropical rainforest in the north. If you get right into the very guts of the place, the absolute red centre, you ll see the breathtaking beauty of the Uluru sitting majestically upon five million square miles of flatness.: Oceania , continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Oceancoordinates: 27 00 S, 133 00 E Map references: Oceania Area: total: 7,686,850 sq km land: 7,617,930 sq km water: 68,920 sq km note: includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island Area - comparative: slightly smaller than the US Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 25,760 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm. name: Conventional long form: Commonwealth of Australia Conventional short form: Australia Data code: AS Government type: democratic, federal-state system recognizing the British monarch as sovereign.of Australia is arid to semi-arid which in non-weather-spotters terms means desert and almost desert. The climate is temperate in the south and south-east, while the further north you head the more tropical it becomes. Tropical in this case means it s hot and dry for six months, and hot and wet for the other six months. The locals have long replaced traditional seasons like summer , spring and autumn with just two season known as wet and dry .: generally arid to semiarid; temperate in south and east; tropical in north. The continent s lowest point is Lake Eyre at-1...
