Australia's Physical Features

Uluru is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in Australia.

Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area.

This word (pronounced ab-uh-RIH-juh-neez) is the name for the indigenous peoples of Australia.

This ocean is off the western coast of Australia. It stretches between Africa, Asia (India), and Australia.

This mountain range is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the fifth longest land-based range in the world. It runs roughly parallel to the East Coast of Australia and stretches more than 2,175 miles.

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is located in the Coral Sea.

The Pacific Ocean is the last body of water that touches Australia. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.