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Also known as: Commonwealth of Australia
Written by
W.D.L. Ride
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra. Head, School of Applied Science, Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1982–87. Author of A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia.
W.D.L. Ride,
Charles Rowland Twidale
Reader in Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide, Australia. Author of Geomorphology with Special Reference to Australia and others.
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Australia, the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia’s capital is Canberra, located in the southeast between the larger and more important economic and cultural centres of Sydney and Melbourne. The Australian mainland extends from west to east for nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 km) and from Cape York Peninsula in the northeast to Wilsons Promontory in the southeast for nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km). To the south, Australian jurisdiction extends a further 310 miles (500 km) to the southern extremity of the island of Tasmania, ...(100 of 51163 words)

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