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There is a large sign in Oodnadatta claiming the town is "The driest town, the driest state of the driest Continent". [37] Extreme temperatures have ranged from −4.0 °C (24.8 °F) on 16 July 1979 to 50.7 °C (123.3 °F) on 2 January 1960, the highest reliably measured maximum temperature in Australia.
A place inland near Lake Eyre (in South Australia) would only receive 81 mm (3 in) of rain annually. [92] Another place, Troudaninna Bore (, altitude : 46 m) in South Australia, from 1893 to 1936, received, in average, 104.9 mm (4.13 inches) of precipitation.
The desert in western Australia is well explained by the little evaporation of the cold sea current of the West Australian Current, of polar origin, which prevents significant rainfall in the interior of the continent. [3] About 40% of Australia is covered by dunes. [5] Australia is the driest inhabited continent, [6] [7] with the least fertile ...
The black swan is the state bird of Western Australia. The red-and-green kangaroo paw is the floral emblem of Western Australia. Snow in the state is rare and typically only in the Stirling Range near Albany, as it is the only mountain range far enough south and with sufficient elevation. More rarely, snow can fall on the nearby Porongurup Range.
Australia recorded the driest October in more than 20 years due to an El Nino weather pattern which has seen hot, dry conditions hit crop yields in one of the world's largest wheat exporters, the ...
Like many of Australia's deserts, precipitation is high by desert standards, but with the driest regions recording total rainfall a little below 250 mm (9.8 in). The heat of Australia’s ground surface, in turn, creates a massive evaporation cycle, which partially explains the higher-than-normal desert rainfall.
A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 13,560 kilometers (8,435 miles) from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a ...
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