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Title: Europe and other continents
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 McMurray, Frank Morton, 1862- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ds (Appendix II.) and compare it with the area of yourown state. (12) What must be the temperature and rainfall condi-tions in these islands? (13) What, then, about their products? Australia Physiography.—Australia lies apart from the rest ofthe world, an island continent in the water hemisphereand the only continent wholly in the southern hemisphere.Isolated for ages, its plants and animals differ (Fig. 34-t)from those in other parts of the earth (p. Q6~). With itsarea of nearly three million square miles, it approachesthe United States or Europe in size. But it has beensettled by Europeans so recently, and so much of its sur-face is desert (Fig. 338), that it is much less denselypopulated than the other continents. Much of the in-terior is practically unexplored, partly because of thedesert and partly because of the absence of interior navi-gable waters. 461 462 AUSTRALIA The surface, like that of Ireland, suggests a plate inform, since the low interior rises gradually to plateaus
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PHYSIOGRAPHY 463 and mountains which often descend steeply toward thesea. While there are some low, short ranges in the in-terior, the highest land is in the east, where the mountainsrun parallel to the coast. In the southeast some of thepeaks reach a height of over a mile. The mountains of eastern Australia, like the Appalachiansof North America, are the worn-down remains of an ancientmountain system. Still further like the Appalachians, theyserved to check the extension of early settlements inland.Tasmania is really a continuation of the eastern highland, asNewfoundland is a continuation of the mountains of easternNorth America. The streams which flow eastward to the Pacific, cascadedown the mountains in short courses. Of the others ineastern Australia some end in the lakes of interior basins,and some evaporate in the dry climate; but many unitewith the Darling and Murray rivers, which are at timesnavigable for long distances. During the dry summerseason, however, all excepting the

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