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The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills.
East Antarctica: West Antarctica: Australia: East Australian Basins: Carpentaria Basin: Gulf of Carpentaria: Kynuna Platform: Great Artesian Basin: Wilcannia Threshold Murray Basin: Naracoorte Platform Encounter Shelf East Australian Cordillera: Cape York Platform: Coen Belt Torres Strait Islands: North Queensland Highlands: Chillagoe Belt ...
Cordillera Central of Luzon and Southern Pacific Cordillera of Mindanao in the Philippines; Cordilleras Béticas, Central and Cantábrica (including the Picos de Europa) in Spain; East Australian Cordillera, more commonly known as the Great Dividing Range, the most significant topographic feature of the east coast of Australia
The Atherton Tableland is a fertile plateau, which is part of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, Australia. It has very deep, rich basaltic soils and the main industry is agriculture. The principal river flowing across the plateau is the Barron River, which was dammed to form the irrigation reservoir named Lake Tinaroo. Unlike many other ...
This area is a distinct physiographic section of the larger Western Victorian Highlands province, which, in turn, is part of the larger East Australian Cordillera physiographic division — commonly known as the Great Dividing Range — a series of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills forming out of the Wimmera plains just to the west of the Grampians, staying close to the east ...
Continental Australia: Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales (2,228 metres (7,310 ft)) [4] Furthest point from the centre of the earth: Thornton Peak , Queensland (6,377.866 kilometres) [ 5 ] Tallest Mountain, as measured from ocean floor: Mount Hamilton, Macquarie Island (5,000 + metres) [ 5 ]
The highest point in the Blue Mountains, as it is now defined, is an unnamed point with an elevation of 1,189 m (3,901 ft) AHD, located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of Lithgow. However, the highest point in the broader region that was once considered to be the Blue Mountains is Mount Bindo , with an elevation 1,362 m (4,469 ft) AHD . [ 5 ]
Miltalie orogeny – Gawler Craton, South Australia; Yapungku orogeny – North Yilgarn craton margin, Western Australia, (c. 1765 Ma) Albany-Fraser orogeny – Mountain-forming period in Australia – Western Australia, (c. 1710–1020 Ma) Mangaroon orogeny – Gascoyne Complex, Western Australia, (c. 1680–1620 Ma)