It would be classified as a desert but for its underground water resources, which support extensive farming operations. The Great Artesian Basin on the western edge of the Great Dividing Range receives very little rainfall. These deserts are not all sand course grasses and various species of spinifex, a short plant that grows in sandy soil, also grow in the deserts. The Simpson Desert is located in the border region between the Northern Territory, Queensland, and South Australia. Western Australia has three large deserts: the Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, and Great Sandy Desert. The deserts of AustraliaвЂ™s interior make up a large portion of the continent. Alice Springs is located in the center of the continent and has been given the designation of the middle of nowhere, or the center of everything. Mining and some agricultural activities can be found in the outback. Many of the school-age children in the outback have traditionally received their school lessons through television or radio broadcasts because of their isolation. The outback is sparsely populated, but is home to a number of aboriginal groups. This region receives less rainfall than along the coast and its terrain consists of deserts and semiarid plateaus with rough grasses and scrublands. Extending west from the Great Dividing Range, the outback encompasses most of the interior. The great interior of the country is home to the massive outback. The largest river in Australia is the Darling-Murray River system that starts in the highland of the Great Dividing Range and flows inward through New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia. This low-lying range of highlands averages about four thousand feet and reaches an elevation of just over seven thousand feet at its highest peaks in the south. The Great Dividing Range is a mountain chain extending from Melbourne in the south to Cape York in the north. The various highland ranges are pronounced, but are not high in elevation. It is the flattest of all the continents. With the advent of European colonialism, new species were introduced to the country, which regrettably caused the extinction of some of the native species but also gave Australia a wide diversity of organisms and natural conditions.ДЄustralia is a relatively low-lying island with low relief. Australia hosts many unique species of plants and animals, including marsupials and a host of poisonous snakes and insects. The Tropic of Capricorn runs right through the middle of this country. Just slightly smaller in physical area than the continental United States, Australia is a large country with many resources but few people relative to its size.

Tourism is now the number one economic activity in Australia. There is an international attraction to the island continent of Australia, and the attraction has grown in intensity in the past few decades.

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