The Geography of Australia and the Pacific Ocean
by Owen Borville
Australian geography contains the Eastern highlands, central deserts, rock formations, lowlands, and plains, the western plateau, coastal plains, the Great Barrier Reef, the northern Plateau, the southern highlands, the Australia Escarpment, and Great Artesian Basin. New Zealand has mountains and islands. The great deserts and plateaus of western Australia also contain unique rock formations and wildlife while mountains run across the eastern coastline. The western Pacific Ocean contains many volcanic islands with unique terrain.
The Great Barrier Reef, northeast Cairns
Uluru Rock Inselberg
Shark Bay Western Australia stromatolites
Pinnacles limestone columns north of Perth, Western Australia
Twelve Apostles Victoria
Fraser Island world's largest sand island, Eastern Australia
Blue Mountains west of Sydney Three Sisters
Kings Canyon Northern Territory
Lord Howe Island NSW
Katherine Gorge, NT
Bungle Bungle Mountains Kimberley Region
Devils Marbles NT
Undara Lava Tubes Qld
Mackenzie Falls Eastern Australia
Scenic Rim Queensland
Great Ocean Road Victoria
Mount Gambier Blue Lake
Wineglass Bay Tasmania
Kangaroo Island
Koalas
Southern Lights Aurora Tasmania
Australian Alps
Maria Island painted and fossil cliffs Tasmania
Naracoorte Caves NP fossils
Atherton Tablelands, Queensland
Rottnest Island, WA
Simpson Desert, Queensland
Christmas Island
Wolfe Creek Crater, meteorite second largest
Mungo NP
Lake Eyre
Horizontal Falls, WA
Wave Rock, WA
Phillip Island, Victoria
Wilpena Sound, WA
Litchfield NP NT
Western Australia reefs
Hamelin Bay Rock Formations
Concretion Boulders, on New Zealand beaches
Australia---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Planation Surface; Great Barrier Reef (ne); Three Sisters Hoodoos in Blue mountains (se) near Sydney; Wave Rock cliff (sw); The Pinnacles desert limestone pillars in Nambung NP (sw), Bungle Bungles range beehive red rock formations=Purnululu National Park in Kimberley, Western Australia (nw); Uluru Rock sandstone monolith (central); Lake Hillier pink algae (sw)
New Zealand-------------------------------
Moeraki Boulders beach concretions (se); Castle Hill Peak (south island)
Pacific Islands--------------------------------------------------
The Pacific Islands are concentrated in the west and south of the ocean. Tall islands are volcanic peaks and hot spots, limestone, some are continental, and short islands are covered in coral reefs but also volcanic. Blue Holes=are limestone sinkholes underwater (Vanuatu), sapphire blue Lagoons (New Caledonia, Cook Islands) water holes (wetlands), waterfalls, mountain peaks, underwater coral and marine life, white sandy beaches, lush forests and jungles, exotic wildlife including birds, reptiles, marine life and fishes. Pacific Remote Islands nm.
Melanesia=Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia (France)
Micronesia=Guam (US), Mariana Trench is (sw) of Guam, North Mariana Islands (US), Wake Island (US), Nauru, Kiribati, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) Marshall Islands, Palau
Polynesia=Kiribati, American Samoa=Rose Atoll, N.P. reefs, mountains, islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands (NZ), Tokelau (NZ)
French Polynesia=Austral Islands, Marquesas, Society Islands, Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands
Hawaii (US)
Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
Easter Island (Chile)
Pacific Ocean Trenches=Mariana Trench (deepest) Why are there only ocean trenches in the Pacific Ocean and not in other oceans on the Earth?
by Owen Borville
Australian geography contains the Eastern highlands, central deserts, rock formations, lowlands, and plains, the western plateau, coastal plains, the Great Barrier Reef, the northern Plateau, the southern highlands, the Australia Escarpment, and Great Artesian Basin. New Zealand has mountains and islands. The great deserts and plateaus of western Australia also contain unique rock formations and wildlife while mountains run across the eastern coastline. The western Pacific Ocean contains many volcanic islands with unique terrain.
The Great Barrier Reef, northeast Cairns
Uluru Rock Inselberg
Shark Bay Western Australia stromatolites
Pinnacles limestone columns north of Perth, Western Australia
Twelve Apostles Victoria
Fraser Island world's largest sand island, Eastern Australia
Blue Mountains west of Sydney Three Sisters
Kings Canyon Northern Territory
Lord Howe Island NSW
Katherine Gorge, NT
Bungle Bungle Mountains Kimberley Region
Devils Marbles NT
Undara Lava Tubes Qld
Mackenzie Falls Eastern Australia
Scenic Rim Queensland
Great Ocean Road Victoria
Mount Gambier Blue Lake
Wineglass Bay Tasmania
Kangaroo Island
Koalas
Southern Lights Aurora Tasmania
Australian Alps
Maria Island painted and fossil cliffs Tasmania
Naracoorte Caves NP fossils
Atherton Tablelands, Queensland
Rottnest Island, WA
Simpson Desert, Queensland
Christmas Island
Wolfe Creek Crater, meteorite second largest
Mungo NP
Lake Eyre
Horizontal Falls, WA
Wave Rock, WA
Phillip Island, Victoria
Wilpena Sound, WA
Litchfield NP NT
Western Australia reefs
Hamelin Bay Rock Formations
Concretion Boulders, on New Zealand beaches
Australia---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Planation Surface; Great Barrier Reef (ne); Three Sisters Hoodoos in Blue mountains (se) near Sydney; Wave Rock cliff (sw); The Pinnacles desert limestone pillars in Nambung NP (sw), Bungle Bungles range beehive red rock formations=Purnululu National Park in Kimberley, Western Australia (nw); Uluru Rock sandstone monolith (central); Lake Hillier pink algae (sw)
New Zealand-------------------------------
Moeraki Boulders beach concretions (se); Castle Hill Peak (south island)
Pacific Islands--------------------------------------------------
The Pacific Islands are concentrated in the west and south of the ocean. Tall islands are volcanic peaks and hot spots, limestone, some are continental, and short islands are covered in coral reefs but also volcanic. Blue Holes=are limestone sinkholes underwater (Vanuatu), sapphire blue Lagoons (New Caledonia, Cook Islands) water holes (wetlands), waterfalls, mountain peaks, underwater coral and marine life, white sandy beaches, lush forests and jungles, exotic wildlife including birds, reptiles, marine life and fishes. Pacific Remote Islands nm.
Melanesia=Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia (France)
Micronesia=Guam (US), Mariana Trench is (sw) of Guam, North Mariana Islands (US), Wake Island (US), Nauru, Kiribati, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) Marshall Islands, Palau
Polynesia=Kiribati, American Samoa=Rose Atoll, N.P. reefs, mountains, islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands (NZ), Tokelau (NZ)
French Polynesia=Austral Islands, Marquesas, Society Islands, Tahiti, Tuamotu Islands
Hawaii (US)
Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
Easter Island (Chile)
Pacific Ocean Trenches=Mariana Trench (deepest) Why are there only ocean trenches in the Pacific Ocean and not in other oceans on the Earth?
