The Beautiful Geography of Australia

Hello everyone !


As I have progressively gone to class every week. I learn more and more about wonderful Australia ! I can't believe that I will be going there in about 2 months ! I'm getting very excited as you can tell ! First off I would like to fill in everyone a little bit about the geography of Australia. I was assigned this chapter in my class to do a presentation, now I can't wait to fill you all in about what my partner and I presented in class. So here it goes !

Territories and States of Australia

To start things off, Australia has three island territories in the Pacific they are the Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos Island. Did you know that Australia is the only nation to occupy an entire continent? I thought that was very interesting. Australia is the sixth largest nation ! Australia is the flattest and ( after Antarctica) driest of all continents. Many people tell me its exactly like Kansas very dry. I think I would have to disagree, but who knows once I get to Australia I might change my mind. Australia is not like the United States where we have 50 states, Australia has only 6 states, and 2 territories. Those six states are New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, and South Australia. The two territories are the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory. You can see where each is located on the map of Australia above.

Beautiful Canberra

Most would think that the capital of Australia is Sydney, but think again, it is Canberra! Canberra is located in the Australian Capital Territory. My partner and I tried to look up why it was only located in that certain territory, but we could not find one straight answer! So if any of you know that would be awesome to figure out, if not I guess I will just save it for when we go to the land down under ! :) Look at the picture to the right, it is a picture of Canberra, Australia's Capital. This looks so beautiful !

Night sky of Sydney

Now that I have filled your brains with the geography of Australia, I hope you will be able to follow where our class is heading to and which states and territories we will be in. Whether it is out in the outback, or the city of Sydney , I know I will be able to follow a lot easier now that I have had the opportunity to learn about the wonderful geographical parts of beautiful Australia.


Have a good afternoon mates !
-Kara