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Great Dividing Range sign on the Kings Highway between Braidwood and Bungendore, New South Wales. The Great Dividing Range was formed during the Carboniferous period—over 300 million years ago—when Australia collided with what are now parts of South America and New Zealand. [12] The range has experienced significant erosion since.
The range comprises an area of 1,232,981 ha (3,046,760 acres). [3] The Australian Alps are part of the Great Dividing Range, the series of mountain and hill ranges and tablelands that runs about 3,000 km (1,900 mi) from northern Queensland, through New South Wales, and into the northern part of Victoria. [4]
This page discusses the rivers and hydrography of the state of New South Wales, Australia.. The principal topographic feature of New South Wales is the series of low highlands and plateaus called the Great Dividing Range, which extend from north to south roughly parallel to the coast of the Coral and Tasman seas of the South Pacific Ocean.
Annual rainfall is high, ranging from over 2,000 mm (79 in) in the Iron Range and north of Weipa to about 700 mm (28 in) at the southern border. Almost all this rain falls between November and April, and only on the eastern slopes of the Iron Range is the median rainfall between June and September above 5 mm (0.2 in). Between January and March ...
Southwest National Park, Arthur Range: 41 Mount Dryander: 820 793 Mount William: QLD Whitsunday Region: 42 Strzelecki Peaks: 782 782 none - HP Flinders Island: TAS Strzelecki National Park, Flinders Island: 43 HP Normanby Range 805 777 HP Blue Mountains QLD Shoalwater Bay: 44 Mount Owen: 1,146 776 Mount Ossa: TAS West Coast Range, nr Queenstown ...
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 ...
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Great Dividing Range (8 C, 58 P) Pages in category "Mountain ranges of New South Wales" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.