Australia

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Oceania
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Oceania
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Australias Geography

• Geographic Understandings
• SS6G12 The student will be able to locate
  selected features of Australia.
• a. Locate on a world and regional
  political-physical map the Great Barrier Reef,
  Coral Sea, Ayers Rock, and Great Victoria Desert.
  

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• Land Down Under
• Often described as large, semi-arid, dry region
  with temperate climates in the southeastern
  coastal areas

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Australias Geography

• Geographic Understandings
• SS6G12 The student will be able to locate
  selected features of Australia.
• a. Locate on a world and regional
  political-physical map the Great Barrier Reef,
  Coral Sea, Ayers Rock, and Great Victoria Desert.
  

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Australias Geography
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Australias Geography
Note the capital
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Last Homework!

• 717-723 Questions 2-4
• Due on Friday the 16th

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Great Barrier Reef

• The Great Barrier Reef
• It is the worlds largest coral reef.
• A coral reef is a structure formed by the
  skeletons of small sea animals.
• Millions of years to form.
• Create a colorful chain that stretches 1,250
  miles.

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Great Barrier Reef
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The Coral Sea

• The Coral Sea is actually part of the Pacific
  Ocean (and is an important source for the Great
  Barrier Reef).

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The Coral Sea

• The sea lies off the northeast coast of
  Australia.

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Ayers Rockaka Uluru

• Located near the center of the continent of
  Australia
• Huge, reddish sandstone rock towering out of the
  flatlands
• The rock is a monolith
• A Monolith is a single, large rock sticking out
  of the Earth
• Stone Mountain, anyone?

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Ayers Rock

• aka, Uluru

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Great Victoria Desert

• Very few Australians live in the Great Victoria
  Desert because it is too hot and dry.

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In the beginning

• The first Australian Settlers arrived in
  Australia in 1788.

Terra Nullius - literally Land Empty.
In other words, the British could claim the land
and send whoever they liked there. But..
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Aborigines
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Aboriginal History

• There are no clear tribes or an accepted origin
  of the indigenous people of Australia, although
  they are believed to be among the earliest human
  migrations out of Africa.

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