Queensland,_Australia

Queensland, Australia Queensland Australia is known to be the lowest, flattest, and the driest of all the continents. Australia’s shape comes from a long period of earth’s movements, caused by plate tectonics. The river erosion has made many of the details in its shape. Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. Its exact location is 25º S, 141º E. The population is 3,757,300. Brisbane is its capital city. Another city is Cairns, which is the tropical capital of Queensland. The Atherton Tablelands border it. MacKay is a city just north of Brisbane. It contains twenty-five percent of Australia’s sugar yields. Climate Queensland is famous for its sun, but the climate does vary from coastal plain and the inland. Even though Queensland is referred to as the “holiday state” it is subject to monsoon rains. Its wet seasons are from December to March. The annual rainfall in the northern part of Queensland can exceed 4000 mm. Brisbane can high rainfall month is March. The annual rainfall for March can get as high as 141 mm. In 1974 a severe flood hit Queensland, because of Cyclone Wanda. It was the nation’s worst city flood. It killed sixteen people. There was another flood in 1990 that queensland, great, reef, wet, tropics, rainforest, barrier, coral, contains, sea, located, largest, degrees, world, rainfall, one, during, corals, category, australia, water, three, species, range, known, cyclone, brisbane, basin, area, winds, part, north, made, dividing, areas, types