Essay Archive - Australia
Australia
Australia is the world's smallest continent and sixth-largest country. With
proportionately more desert land than any other continent, Australia has a low
population density. Lying completely in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia is
bounded by the Indian Ocean on the west and south and by the Pacific Ocean on
the east. These oceans merge on the north in the Arafura Sea between Australia
and Indonesia and New Guinea, and on the south in the Bass Strait. The
coastline length, estimated at 19,200 km (12,000 mi), is remarkably short for so
large an area, a result of the relative lack of indentation. Major inlets other
than the Gulf of....
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