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The eastern Australian states. States in red are always defined as eastern. The term can sometimes be applied to the states in orange. The eastern states of Australia are the states adjoining the east continental coastline of Australia. These are the mainland states of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and the island state of Tasmania.
In the period of the European maritime exploration of Australia, the Australian coastline was discovered by a group of navigators, including Willem Janszoon, Dirk Hartog, Abel Tasman, Captain James Cook and Matthew Flinders, who went on to become the first in leading the first inshore circumnavigation of Australia and charter much of the coast.
East Coast of Australia – also known as an Eastern seaboard; Lake Eyre basin – QLD/SA/NT/NSW; Murray–Darling basin – NSW/ACT/VIC/QLD/SA; Northern Australia – NT/QLD/part of WA; The Nullarbor – SA/WA; Outback – mainly NT and WA, but all territories except ACT and TAS; Southern Australia – TAS/VIC/SA, sometimes including NSW and WA
Cape Byron is the easternmost point of the mainland of Australia, located in New South Wales. [1] It is about 3 km (1.9 mi) east of the town of Byron Bay, New South Wales and projects into the Pacific Ocean at 28.6335° S, 153.6383° E. A lighthouse is situated there. It is a popular area for hiking and for whale watching.
Off the north-eastern coast of Australia is the world's largest coral reef complex, the Great Barrier Reef. The large and mountainous island of Tasmania, also a State of Australia, lies south of the south-eastern corner of the Australian mainland. It receives abundant rainfall, and has highly fertile soils particularly in comparison to the ...
It runs roughly parallel to the east coast of Australia and forms the fifth-longest land-based mountain chain in the world, and the longest entirely within a single country. It is mainland Australia's most substantial topographic feature and serves as the definitive watershed for the river systems in eastern Australia, hence the name.
Aerial views of the Great Ocean Road and nearby coastline. The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage-listed 240-kilometre (150 mi) stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia, between the Victorian towns of Torquay and Allansford.
Pacific Highway is a 790-kilometre-long (491 mi) [1] national highway and major transport route along the central east coast of Australia, with the majority of the highway being part of Australia's Highway 1.