Geo. Features. S.E.A.
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ANTARCTICA
- The Antarctic covers approximately 20 percent of the Southern Hemisphere.
- The majority of the islands and archipelagos of Lesser Antarctica are volcanic and heavily glaciated.
- The waters surrounding Antarctica are relatively deep, reaching 4,000 to 5,000 meters in depth.
- Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent in terms of total area.
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AUSTRALIA
- Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast, reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko.
- Australia comprises a land area of about 7.692 million square kilometres.
- It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Afarura Sea, and the Southern Ocean
- It has become the flattest land mass on earth.
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INDOCHINA
- refers to the intermingling of Indian and Chinese influences in the culture of the region.
- occupies the easternmost region of the Indochinese Peninsula
- Formed in 1887
- Thailand, Kampuchea, laos, and Vietnam are apart of indochina
MALAY PENINSULA
- a long, narrow appendix of the mainland extending south for a distance of about 700 miles
- bounded to the northwest by the Andaman Sea of the Indian Ocean
- central mountain range, rising to 7,175 feet
- The western coast is exposed to the southwest monsoons and the eastern coast to the northeast monsoons.
POLYNESIA
- Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean
- includes five archipelagoes
- about one-half of the way from South America to Australia
- slightly less than one-third the size of Connecticut
INDONESIA
- largest archipelago with 13,677 islands
- tropical landscape in places such as Bali.
- consists mainly of coastal lowlands
- have large interior mountains
