Торренс ( Torrens) – the second largest salt lake in Australia undrained. located in the states South Australia, in 345 km north of Adelaide. Specified area of the lake is quite relative, as in the past 150 years, it is completely filled with water only once.
The lake is open to Edward Eyre 1839, subsequent 20 years it was, that Lake Torrens - a huge shallow salt lake in the shape of a horseshoe, surrounding the northern Flinders Ranges and blocks the way to the interior of the country.
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Australia is in the subequatorial latitudes from the north to subtropical in the south and only the island of Tasmania lies almost entirely in the temperate zone. In accordance with the geographical location of one of the main factors, impact on the climate of the continent, is the high total solar radiation, reaching the north-west 140 k / cal per cm2 per year.
As compared with
freaks and South America, south of the equator over Australia stretched from west to east. With a weak dissection of the coastline is constantly high temperatures leads to the interior and gives the right to consider her the hottest part of the land of the Southern Hemisphere.
In the tropical belt on the Australian continent formed by two main types of climate: tropical wet and tropical dry. The tropical humid climate is typical of extreme eastern part of Australia, which is included in the zone of south-eastern trade winds. These winds bring with them to the mainland with moisture saturated air masses from the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, the entire area of the coastal plains and the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range are well hydrated (an average fall of 1000 before 1500 mm of rainfall) and has a mild warm climate (temperature of the warmest month Sydney - 22-25 ° C, and the coldest - 11,5-13 ° C). Air mass, bringing moisture from the Pacific Ocean, penetrate to the Great Dividing Range, lost on the way a significant amount of moisture, therefore, only the rainfall on the western slopes of the ridge and in the foothills.