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He judged this to be running along the longitude of 133° 23 ′ 45″, the line of longitude which is halfway between Steep Point and Cape Byron. Along this line of longitude (which runs from near Ceduna in South Australia to the base of the Coburg Peninsula in Northern Territory) he judged the halfway point to be the centre of the continent.
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 ...
Antarctica along with its outlying islands have no permanent population. All land claims south of 60°S latitude are held in abeyance by the Antarctic Treaty System. Australia's Heard Island and McDonald Islands (an external territory) and the French Kerguelen Islands are located on the Kerguelen Plateau, on the Antarctic continental plate ...
image = Map of Australia and New Zealand.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = -9 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = -48.3 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 109 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 179.4 Longitude at right edge of map, in decimal degrees
Australia is the only First World country on the Australia-New Guinea continent, although the economy of Australia is by far the largest and most dominant economy in the region and one of the largest in the world. Australia's per-capita GDP is higher than that of the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and France in terms of purchasing power ...
This is a list of the extreme points of Australia (the country, not the continent). The list includes extremes of cardinal direction , elevation, and other points of peculiar geographic interest. The location of some points depend on whether islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory (which is not universally recognised) are included.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [N 5] It has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania.
The 30th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 30 degrees south of the Earth's equator.It stands one-third of the way between the equator and the South Pole and crosses Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australia, the Pacific Ocean, South America and the Atlantic Ocean.