Australia. Guide to Australia

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Тасмания (Tasmania) - Australian state, located on the same island in the 240 km south of mainland Australia, and separated from it by Bass Strait. administration also extends to the next island (King, Flinders and others) Macquarie Island and the remote. The area of ​​the state - 68 332 Km., population - 494 520 person.

Most of the residents – Anglo-Australians (more 80%). This is a nation formed mainly descendants of immigrants from Britain and Ireland. They are used to measure its history in 1788 year, When we stopped at the island of the first colonists. About 1% – Aborigines, indigenous people of Tasmania (Australoid Race). Considered, that they live on an island near the 40 Thd. Years. Also there is the Chinese, Indians and other ethnic.

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Australian Pink Lake. Pink Lake Hiller (Hillier)is on the edge of Middle Island (Middle Island)covered with thick forests. Middle Island - one of hundreds of small islands in the archipelago Research, scattered along the southern coast Western Australia.

Shallow salt lake Hiller, surrounded by a belt of white salt, something more like a fairytale, than the actual natural formation in the middle of the ocean. On all sides it is surrounded by greenery different types of eucalyptus, that of the dark blue waves of the ocean separates the narrow strip of white sand.

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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.

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