What are the major natural features of Australia?

Answer 1

Famous man made landmarks of Australia include:

• Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach (western Queensland)
• Sydney Opera House
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
• The Australian War Memorial, Canberra
• Port Arthur, an old convict prison in Tasmania
• Ettamogah Pub, an odd, misshapen pub near Albury, NSW, and with a replica on Queensland's Sunshine Coast
• the town of Coober Pedy in South Australia where, due to people living underground, it is characterised by a moonscape appearance, with holes and domes of mullock heaps everywhere
• The Great Ocean Road, a winding road of historical and engineering significance, cut out of the rock face overlooking the Southern Ocean
• Old Melbourne Gaol
• Fremantle Gaol and the Round House
• the lighthouse at Cape Byron, Australia's easternmost point
• the Dingo fence and Rabbit-proof fence

Answer 2

Some of Australia's better-known man-made features are:

• Parliament House in Canberra
• the Sydney Opera House
• Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
• Round House, Fremantle
• Port Arthur gaol, Tasmania
• Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, Longreach
• Sydney Harbour Bridge

Answer 3

Uluru is the world largest monolith. Australia also has the worlds largest living organism, The Great Barrier Reef- A 1000 km long Coral reef. It has some of the most amazing harwood forests in the world as well as the giant whale shark which is not dangerous and you can actually swim with them.

Famous natural features of Australia include:

• Uluru/Ayers Rock, the world's second largest monolith
• Mt Augustus, the world's largest monolith
• Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island
• the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef (actually a series of reefs) and the only living organism visible from space
• Kata-tjuta/the Olgas - bald rock domes in central Australia
• the Pinnacles - a vast desert of upright sandstone formations, weathered over time into weird shapes
• the Three Sisters, a famous landmark in the Blue Mountains
• Chambers Pillar, a stark, upright pillar in northern South Australia, rising up suddenly from the desert landscape
• the Twelve Apostles, off the southern Victorian coastline - a series of sandstone cliffs and rock formations that are gradually eroding away (three have collapsed in the last few years)
• Wave Rock, a 14m high granite rock cliff face near Hyden, Western Australia, weathered into a perfect wave formation
• the Bungle Bungles of northwest Western Australia
• Lake Eyre, 15m below sea level in the South Australian outback
• Nullarbor Plain, a huge, treeless plain crossing South Australia and western Australia
• Kakadu, in the Northern Territory
• Standley Chasm, central Australia
• the Macdonnell Ranges of central Australia, with their unique wavelike formations
• Undara Lava tubes in far north Queensland
• Wilpena Pound, a huge meteorite crater in South Australia's Flinders Ranges
• Mt Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mainland mountain
• Warrumbungles, a unique mountain range in northern New South Wales
• Whitsundays, a group of islands off Queensland's central coast
• Natural Arch in the Gold Coast hinterland
• Kiama blowhole, central NSW coast
• Tasman Arch, Tasmania
• Tessellated Pavement, Tasmania
• many, many caves scattered throughout Australia, some for just tourists and others for serious spelunkers - Narracoorte, Buchan, Abercrombie, Jenolan, Wellington
• Daintree Rainforest of far north Queensland
• the Channel country of northwest Queensland, where the rivers overflow during the monsoon, flooding thousands of square kilometres of countryside

Answer 4

Some of the man made wonders in Australia are : Sydney Opera House - Sydney , Australia . Great Ocean Road, Victoria . Harbor Bridge, Sydney . Royal Botanic Gardens , Melbourne . Australian War Memorial , Canberra . Shrine of Remembrance , Melbourne

Answer 5

Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous and well recognised man-made landmark in Australia. Other landmarks include:

• Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach (western Queensland)
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
• The Australian War Memorial, Canberra
• Port Arthur, an old convict prison in Tasmania
• Ettamogah Pub, an odd, misshapen pub near Albury, NSW, and with a replica on Queensland's Sunshine Coast
• the town of Coober Pedy in South Australia where, due to people living underground, it is characterised by a moonscape appearance, with holes and domes of mullock heaps everywhere
• The Great Ocean Road, a winding road of historical and engineering significance, cut out of the rock face overlooking the Southern Ocean
• Old Melbourne Gaol
• Fremantle Gaol and the Round House
• the lighthouse at Cape Byron, Australia's easternmost point
• the Dingo fence and Rabbit-proof fence

Answer 6

Opera House, my house, my next door neighbours house and the one after that.

Oh, we have a tower as well, is that five yet?