If you travelled to Australia
and made the popular trip along the eastern coast, you would have
memories of a quite mountainous country.
But in fact it is the flattest continent (not the flattest country!) in
the world.
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The eastern coast
is the only "really mountainous" area (by Australian standards) thanks
to the Great Dividing Range, but even that mountain range is quite old
and eroded compared to other, younger mountain ranges in the world.
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Famous mountains in other parts of Australia like Ayers
Rock, Bungle Bungles, Cradle
Mountain and Mt Kosciuszko do not make
Australia sound like a flat continent either.
But in fact those "mountains" often are more famous for their beauty
than their height. And Australia's highest mountain, Mount
Kosciuszko,
is only 2228m above sea level.
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The majority of the land in
Australia consists of endless flat, often treeless plains. Because
mountains bring rain, those flat plains get very dry in the lack of
rain and support minimal vegetation.
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Apart from northern Australia
which gets monsoonal rains and the eastern coast where the Great
Dividing Range brings some rain, Australia is a very dry continent and
it often suffers from droughts.
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