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
