Austraalia - slideshow
Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller
islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Australia flag Australia coat of arms.
Australia is a cloudless dark blue sky, the bright
sun, multikilometer beaches with snowwhite
sand and ocean up to horizon.
Australia's landmass of 7,617,930 square kilometers is on the
IndoAustralian Plate. Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific
oceans, it is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor
seas. It the sixth largest country in area after Russia, Canada,
China, the United States and Brazil. It is the flattest and (after
Antarctica) the driest of continents, yet it has extremes of
There are rainforests and vast plains in the north, snowfields in the
south east, desert in the center and fertile croplands in the east, south
and south west