Geography (Australia)

Mount Kosciusko

Australia's highest point

Tasmania

Australia's smallest and least populous state

stations

Australia's word for ranches

jumpbucks

sheep that are everywhere—on the coast, around the mountain slopes, and in the dry interior.

Canberra

the capital of Australia that means "meeting place"

Brisbane

the capital of Queensland

Adelaide

the capital of South Australia, has an ideal harbor protected by Kangaroo Island from the violent willy-willies (windstorms) that blow on the Great Australian Bight.

Perth

the capital of Western Australia

Aborigines

the earliest settlers in Australia were called what?

Great Barrier Reef

the largest coral formation in the world

Murray River

the most important water system on the continent

Melbourne

the state capital of Victoria and is the nation's second-largest city

Ayers Rock

the world's largest monolith, or free-standing rock

lignite

The Latrobe Valley holds the world's largest deposit of what? (brown coal).

the Outback

The sparsely populated areas beyond the coastal cities of Australia are collectively known as?

Western Plateau

The western two-thirds of Australia is the dry, flat _______ ________.

Central Uplands

This low area just west of the mountains is known as the?

The Great Dividing Range

is a rugged complex of low mountains, plateaus, and hills that run parallel to the east coast of Australia.

Lake Eyre

largest lake in Australia; the body of water in the center of the bodies of water that the rivers drain into

Oceania

one of the most remote regions of the earth -- makes up Australia and New Zealand

Sydney

settlement that became the base for the exploration and settlement of Australia

Botany Bay

He found fertile soil and one of the continent's few deep harbors at a place he named ______ ____. Later, that harbor became the site of the first English settlement on the continent

the Great Australian Bight

It is shaped like a keystone along the waters of?

the Hamersley Range

One of the richest iron ore reserves in the world was discovered in?

Simpson Desert

Red Center of Australia

Captain James Cook

a famous British explorer, was the first European to map the east coast of Australia

Wattles

acacia trees were called what by the early settlers?

Sydney

capital of New South Wales

Wellington

capital of New Zealand

Darwin

capital of Northern Territory

Hobart

capital of Tasmania

Melbourne

capital of Victoria