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Australia is a continent in the southern hemisphere, covering an area of almost 7.8 million km2. The interior forms a huge barren depression of arid lands and deserts, separated from the eastern seaboard by what is known as the Great Dividing Range, rising to 2,200 m, which itself is a mature landscape of gorges, plateaux and subsidiary mountain spurs. Most of the population of 22 million live in the fertile temperate south-eastern corner of the continent, where the largest town, Sydney, is located. The Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef, borders the northeast coast, while the large island of Tasmania lies off the south coast.
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© 2013 Colin J. Campbell and Alexander Wöstmann
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Australia. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_17
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