Australia. Guide to Australia

‘Desert’

Dajamantina (Diamantina River) - River,shared by the states Квинсленд and South Australia.The length of Dayamantiny 941 km, source of the river to the north-west of Longreach in Queensland, then the river flows in a southwesterly direction through the central regions of the state and empties into the swamp of Goyder Lagoon, located on the north Strzelecki Desert.

Most of the basin has a flat character Dayamantiny: the highest areas,northeastward,hardly reach 500 m above sea level. Approximately midway between Wynton and Berdsvillem National Park is located Daymantina.

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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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By the beginning of European colonization, there were approximately. 300 тыс. Australians, More than 260 languages. In 19 – the early. 20 Centuries. Aboriginal population is constantly declining, in the 2nd polovine20 in. there were approximately. 160 тыс. people. (with the Métis), Australian languages ​​but possess no more than 50% of them.Thd

Of 200 avctraliyskih languages ​​large part on the verge of extinction. Only in the «language of the Western Desert»they say 4 Thd. people., number of speakers of other languages – from a few to several hundred people. Many Australian languages ​​have many dialects, because of the significant lexical differences between the native understanding of some of them can not be. It is difficult to distinguish languages ​​and dialects,bringing the total number of Australian languages ​​are sometimes estimated to be 500-600.

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