Презентация на тему География Австралии!

from Moscow, Russia to Sydney, Australia is 9,001 miles.

This is equivalent to 14,486 kilometers or 7,822 nautical miles.

Moscow

Sydney

East (93 degrees from North). Travel Time: 18 hours

by plane.

■ 1 hour to find local time in Tokyo
■

2 hours- in Hong Kong
■ 9 hours- in Paris
■ 10 hours- in London
■ 15 hours- in New York
■ 18 hours- in San Francisco

at Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong or Bangkok and

at last arrive at Sydney airport.

seven continents and the sixth biggest state. Australia is

situated between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It is made up of two islands.

To the north are: Papa New Guinea, Indonesia and

part of Malaysia. Additional to the north are the Philippines and Asian mainland. Australian land mass of nearly 7.7 million km² makes it the sixth largest country in area after Russia, Canada, China, the United States and Brazil.

Over 28 million hectares of land is designated as

national park-land, accounting for almost four per cent of Australia's land areas. In addition, a further six per cent of Australia is protected and includes state forests, nature parks and conservation reserves.

driest of conti-nents. Huge areas of land are so

dry that they are uninhabited. There are rainforests and vast plains in the north, snowfields in the south east, desert in the centre and fertile croplands in the east, south and south west. About one third of the country lies in the tropics.

the east coast, reaching their highest point in Mount

Kosciusko (7,308 ft; 2,228 m).
The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 miles, lies along the north-east coast.