Australia. Guide to Australia

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By post meteonovosti.ru, Australia soon threatened with flooding, dense layers of clouds shut down from the Sun's rays North and East of the country and heavy rains. Over the past 24 hours in the East of Australia grows from precipitation 57 before 86 mm.

In the North of the continent precipitation ranged from 56 before 77 mm. According to the statement of the authorities «If in the coming days the rain will not stop, will be flooded by Roklej, Windsor, Tumbul, Deagon, Jeshgrouv, Albion, Bulimba, Chelmer as and Tennyson».

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Большая пустыня Виктория (Great Victoria Desert) - Sandy-saline desert, located in the state Western Australia and South Australia.
Great Victoria Desert - the largest desert of Australia, occupies 4% area of ​​the continent, eë
area 424 400 км², at the same length from east to west is over 700 km.

To the north of the Great Victoria Desert is located Gibson Desert, Hugo k - plane Nallarbor. The average annual rainfall varies from 200 before 250 mm of rain, thunderstorms often occur. Daytime temperatures in summer is 32-40 ° C, 18-23 ° C in winter. Due to the unfavorable climatic conditions in the desert is not any agricultural activity. It is a protected area of ​​Western Australia.

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Пустыня Гибсона (Gibson Desert) - Sandy desert in the middle of Western Australia, area 155 530Km ². The desert is located south of the Tropic of Capricorn, Between Great Sandy Desert in the north and Great Victoria Desert South.

From the west desert is bounded Hamersley Range, well as with western and eastern parts consists of long parallel ridges of sand, and in the central part of the terrain leveled. In the western part there are several lakes, marshes, including Lake Disappoyntment, which is located on the border with the Great Sandy Desert.

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