Australia's Natural Environment Is Not Unique

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Australia’s natural environment is NOT unique. This is a statement to which I determinedly accept may be not correct. Australia has numerous extraordinary elements which different nations do not possess. Australia deserves to be known as one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. It is home to more than one million classifications of plants and creatures, a considerable lot of which are discovered no place else on the planet, remarkable and impressively unique landforms and the geographical perspective and how Australia was formed is proved to be worthy of attention. Australia undoubtedly has one of the most unique environments in the world.

Australia supports almost 10% of the biological diversity on Earth. Early in geological history, Australia was isolated from the rest of the world's land masses. This
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While Australia is to a great extent thought to be a moderately level scene with an average height of just 330 meters, it has some landforms that deserve a notice. Some of these landforms are mountains and other high components despite the fact that they are at a low elevation. Australia is predominantly divided into three major landform districts, each of which is compromised of smaller scale constituent landform regions. The Eastern Highlands area, also referred to as the "Great Dividing Range" is the one of the most noteworthy piece of Australia, being a progression of slopes, mountains and plateaux. Australia's tallest mountain is found in the Eastern Highlands, that being Mount Kosciusko. The Central Lowlands comprise predominantly of sedimentary rocks and is roughly raised 200 m above ocean level. The most minimal point on the Australian landmass, Lake Eyre, is additionally arranged in this locale. The Western Plateau occupies 70% of Australia and is 600 million years of age containing deserts, mountains ranges and

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