Introduction
It is a Continent country with 6 states. It’s the Smallest continent but the largest island.
The population of 24 million is highly urbanized and heavily concentrated in the eastern states and on the coast.
The Artesian basin of Australia has confined groundwater storage. It is the largest and deepest freshwater storage in the world and is responsible for water supply to the central region of Australia.
Murray and Darling river basins are found in southern Australia. Their basin forms the temperate grassland called downs. It is known for dairy farming and wheat cultivation.
Sheep rearing of merino breed is done as they give high-quality wool.
Australia has the world’s largest known uranium reserve. 10% of the gold reserve of the world is here. Argyle diamond mine is one of the largest in the world. It has valuable pink and red diamonds.
Great Barrier Reef: largest coral reef system. Coral is an important part of marine ecology. It is also a world heritage site.
The maximum population is seen in the eastern part of Australia. Perth in the west, and Darwin in the north are other major cities.
New Zealand:
It has a north island and south island separated by cooks straight. Mount Tauhara is a dormant volcano with Lake Taupo in it.
The climate of the north island is china type and the south island is Laurentian type.
Meat, wool processing, and dairy industry are known here.
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