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The feature is located on the North Coast railway line in Australia that connects New South Wales with Queensland under the Border Ranges near Richmond Gap. It was built during 1930. It is also known as the Border Loop railway formation and landscape, Cougal To Border Loop and Railway Spiral and Landscape.
South Australia’s eastern border was supposed to follow the 141st meridian, but the first surveyors measured incorrectly. [2] A 70-year border dispute followed, and eventually resulted in the disjointedness of MacCabe Corner, with Victoria using the original incorrect calculation, and New South Wales using the new and correct one. [3]
The Australia–Indonesia border [1] is a maritime boundary running west from the two countries' tripoint maritime boundary with Papua New Guinea in the western entrance to the Torres Straits, through the Arafura Sea and Timor Sea, and terminating in the Indian Ocean.
Australia and Indonesia negotiated the border in 1972 and the Timor gap is part of the line they could not define because Portugal, who governed colonial East Timor then, declined to participate in the negotiations until the conclusion of UNCLOS negotiations, [1] due to the extremely complex nature of both international law and the complex geographical problems posed.
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Queensland, the north-east state of Australia. Queensland is the north-eastern state of Australia and has land borders with three other Australian states and territories: New South Wales (to the south), South Australia (to the south-west) and Northern Territory (to the west).
Climate map of Australia. By far the largest part of Australia is arid or semi-arid. A total of 18% of Australia's mainland consists of named deserts, [20] while additional areas are considered to have a desert climate based on low rainfall and high temperature. Only the south-east and south-west corners have a temperate climate and moderately ...
The yield gap between 10-year Treasuries and equivalent German bunds - recently around 160 basis points - has shrunk in recent months but remains around its five-year average of 167 basis points.