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Tasmania
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Australia
The total land area of Australia is 7,682,300sq
km, which makes it the world's smallest continent and the sixth largest country in terms
of size. The area of Australia is 32 times the size of the British Isles, approximately
double the size of Europe, excluding Russia, and equal to the US without Alaska.
Australia has a coastline length of 36,735 km. Australia has claimed an additional
6,044,063 sq km in the Antarctic region. There are approximately 20 million people in
Australia.
Mount Kosciuszko in NSW is the highest point at 2228m.
Eastern Australian time is 10 hours ahead of Universal Time (formerly Greenwich Mean Time)
whereas Western Australia is 8 hours ahead of UT.
Australia has more venomous species of snakes than any other continent and it's spiders
are among the most poisonous in the world.
In Australia we can get, depending where you live, hail and thunder storms, frost, snow,
cloud and fog, heat waves and humidity, sunshine, evaporation, winds and gales, droughts
and floods, bush fires, cyclones, dust storms and tornadoes. We get about 11 hours
of bright sunshine a day during summer.
Click above on the State of Tasmania
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