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Geo. features SFA

Published on Nov 25, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ANTARCTICA

  • Without any ice, Antarctica would emerge as an archipelago of mountainous islands
  • The majority of the islands and archipelagos of Lesser Antarctica are volcanic and heavily glaciated.
  • Antarctica has an extremely cold, dry climate.
  • While the Antarctic does not have permanent residents, the region is a busy outpost for a variety of scientist

AUSTRALIA

  • Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast
  • The worst wildfires in Australian history killed at least 181 people in the state of Victoria
  • Australia comprises a land area of about 7.692 million square kilometres.
  • Nearly 20 per cent of Australia's land mass is classified as desert.

INDO CHINA

  • Indochina was a "separate entity, it was largely unrelated to the cultural

MALYA PENINSULA

  • Malay Peninsula, also called Kra Peninsula
  • The eastern rivers are longer, with flatter gradients in their upper reaches
  • The nation also includes Sabah and Sarawak on the island of east Borneo
  • Most of Malaysia is covered by forest

POLYNESIA

  • Location: Oceania, archipelagoes in the South Pacific Ocean
  • Terrain: mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs
  • Includes five archipelagoes (4 volcanic, 1 coral)
  • Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean

INDONESIA

  • Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago with 13,677 island
  • organized civilizations on the islands of Java and Sumatra
  • lying between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
  • Most of the larger islands are mountainous