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Famous natural landmarks 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

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
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