Australia. Guide to Australia

‘Квинсленд’

Пустыня Симпсона (Simpson Desert) - Sandy desert in the heart of Australia, is 2.3% area of ​​the continent. The desert is mostly in the south-east Northern Territory, and in the states Квинсленд and South Australia. The area of ​​the desert 143 Thd. км², bounded on the west river Finke, from the north - the backbone of Mc Donnell and the river Plenty, from the east - the rivers, and Mulligan Dajamantina, and from the south - a large salt Lake Eyre.

Through the desert rivers Todd Simpson, Plenty, Hale, Hey; in the southern part there are many ephemeral salt lakes. Soils are mainly sandy dune ridges parallel, in the south-eastern part of the sand and gravel,shores of Lake Eyre - clay. Sand dunes 20-37 m stretch from the north-west to south-east on the distance to the 160 km.

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Strzelecki Desert (Shooting) - Desert in the south-eastern Australia. The area of ​​the desert 1% area of ​​Australia. The desert is located in the northeast State of South Australia, north-west New South Wales and the extreme south-west Квинсленда,to the north-east of Lake Eyre and north of the Flinders Ranges. In the north-west passes into Simpson Desert.

Pass through the desert bed of seasonal rivers Strzelecki Creek and Yandama Creek, downstream rack-Cooper Creek and Dajamantina. On the northern edge of the desert settlements are Berdsvill, Kordillo-Downes, Gidgella and Innaminka, on the south side - Itadanna. In the north-western outskirts - a swamp Goyder Lagoon.

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Территория островов Кораллового моря (Coral Sea Islands Territory) includes a group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea to the north-east of Квинсленда Australia.

The islands are located to the east and south of the Great Barrier Reef, include the Herald Island and Bacon, Osprey reef, Willis, a group of islands and fifteen other groups of reefs and the marine waters of the area ostrovov.Obschaya, occupied the islands - 780 Thd. км. The area of ​​land - less than 3 кмkm

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