Australia is one of 14 independent countries that make up Oceania and is the sixth largest in the world. Surrounded by the Indian, Antarctic and Pacific Glacier is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor Seas.
The 7,686,850 km ² in area of Australia are in the Indo-Australian plate. Australia has a coastline of 25,760 km and calls for extensive exclusive economic zone of 8,148,250 km ². This exclusive economic zone does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory.
The Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, is in Australia.
A huge part of the country is desert or semi-arid. Australia is the driest inhabited country and flat, and has less fertile soils. Only in the southeast and southwest there is a temperate climate. The northern part of the country with a tropical climate, has a vegetation consisting mainly of rainforests, forests, grasslands, swamps and deserts. The climate is strongly influenced by low pressure systems that produce seasonal tropical cyclones in the northern region, and ocean currents, including the oceanic-atmospheric phenomenon El Niño, which is correlated with periodic drought.
The 7,686,850 km ² in area of Australia are in the Indo-Australian plate. Australia has a coastline of 25,760 km and calls for extensive exclusive economic zone of 8,148,250 km ². This exclusive economic zone does not include the Australian Antarctic Territory.
The Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, is in Australia.
A huge part of the country is desert or semi-arid. Australia is the driest inhabited country and flat, and has less fertile soils. Only in the southeast and southwest there is a temperate climate. The northern part of the country with a tropical climate, has a vegetation consisting mainly of rainforests, forests, grasslands, swamps and deserts. The climate is strongly influenced by low pressure systems that produce seasonal tropical cyclones in the northern region, and ocean currents, including the oceanic-atmospheric phenomenon El Niño, which is correlated with periodic drought.
