Australia'a Geographical Features
Katherine Gorge
The Katherine Gorge renamed the Nitmiluk Gorge, located within the Northern Territory of Australia’s Nimiluk National Park. The name was changed from Katherine National Park to Nitmiluk when the land ownership to the Jawoyn people; its traditional owners, with its broad valleys and numerous significant cultural sites. The innermost attraction of the park is the thirteen gorges carved into ancient sandstone filled with river rapids and plunging waterfalls. Image source http://le-monde-est-un-livre.blogspot.com.au |
Daintree Rainforest
The Daintree Rainforest is the oldest living rainforest on earth the region includes 95km of what are mostly costal rainforest as well as including open eucalyptus forest, wetlands and mangrove forests. As it spans Mossman in the south to Bloomfield River in the north. With its unique importance of biological diversity and evolutionary history as well as being habitats for a number of threatened species. Image source http://www.ccwild.com |
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia’s most well-known and remarkable features. Being the world’s largest coral reef as it stretches over 2 300km with an approximately 344 400km2 and comprised of an abundance of marine life as well as over 3 000 individual reef systems and coral cays. Being of the seven natural wonders of the world as well being one of Australian’s biggest and most sort after tourist attraction. Image source http://www.airwhitsunday.com.au |
Shark Bay
Shark Bay is actual two bays that lay side by side where it’s located on the most Western point of the Australian coast and comes to cover 23 000km2 . This is known Western Australia’s first world heritage listed area which occurred in 1991 and is one of two World Heritage areas within Western Australia. This region represents a meeting point of the three major climatic regions within Australia as well as being home to many unique plant species and five of Australia’s endangered mammals. Image source http://www.sharkbay.wa.gov.au/ |
Lake Eyre
Lake Eyre located in Northern South Australia is known to be the lowest point in Australia as it sits approximately 15m below sea level with a surface area of 9500km2. Within the rare occasion that it comes to fill it becomes the largest lake within Australia, as it receives water from the following; either the massive river systems that feed its way into it, the local rainfall that either falls on or into the lakes surrounding. The ‘phenomenon’ in which water reaches the lake is categorized to be major and minor flooding. Image source http://placefound.ru |