Geography Features
Published on Nov 27, 2015
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AUSTRALIA
- The Great Barrier Reef is composed of over 2,900 individual reef
- It can be seen from outer space
- More than 1,500 fish species live on the reef
- It is the world's largest reef system
Photo by CAUT
ANTARCTICA
- The Antarctic Ice Sheet dominates the region.
- It is the largest single piece of ice on Earth.
- Ice sheets form in areas where snow that falls in winter does not melt entirely over the summer
- If the Antarctic Ice Sheet melted, sea level would rise by about 60 meters
Photo by Pedro Paulo Cunha
INDOCHINA
- is a peninsula in Southeast Asia lying roughly southwest of China, and east of India.
- The countries of mainland Southeast Asia received cultural influence from both India and China to varying degrees.
- the majority of people in the region are neither Chinese nor Indian
- The name has its origins in the French Indochine as a combination of the names of "India" and "China"
Photo by `James Wheeler
INDONESIA
- It consists of 17,508 islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited.
- The largest are Java, Sumatra, Borneo,New Guinea, and Sulawesi.
- Borneo is the third-largest island in the world and the largest island of Asia.
- Its highest point is Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, with an elevation of 4,095 m (13,435 ft)
Photo by Stuck in Customs
POLYNESIA
- New Zealand is part of Polynesia
- It has two islands the North and the South Island
- Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
- It has a large number of unique bird species.
Photo by vgm8383
MALYA PENINSULA
- Most of Malaysia is covered by forest
- narrow appendix of the mainland extending south for a distance of about 700 miles
- The western coast is exposed to the southwest monsoons
- Most of the western rivers have comparatively short courses
Photo by SaturatedEyes
