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Australia Map showing the country of Australia divided into its states and territories with major cities and surrounding bodies of water, including the Indian Ocean, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea, and Pacific Ocean. Uluru/Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, Australia Australia Dove Lake, Tasmania, Australia Great Barrier Reef MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia Cradle Mountain, Tasmania, Australia Hamersley Range, Western Australia
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Also known as: Commonwealth of Australia
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Joseph Michael Powell
Professor of Geography, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. Author of An Historical Geography of Modern Australia and others.
Joseph Michael Powell,
John J. Veevers
Professor of Earth Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Editor of Phanerozoic Earth History of Australia.
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