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Australia is largely desert while New Zealand is mostly mountains. Both are affected by the ocean, especially on their respective coastal plains.
Featured Article: Mount Cook
Cook, Mount, the highest peak (12,349 feet [3,764 m]) in New Zealand. It is located in Tasman National Park in the west-central part of the South Island, and is part of the Southern Alps. See more »
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Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand, the nation's largest city and an important seaport. It occupies a narrow isthmus on New Zealand's North Island.
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Botany Bay, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the southeastern coast of New South Wales, Australia.
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York, Cape, an arm of land on the northern shore of Baffin Bay, Greenland. Cape York was used as a station by Admiral Peary in his polar explorations.
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Christchurch, New Zealand, the capital of Canterbury Province. It is on the east coast of the South Island at the base of Banks Peninsula, eight miles (13 km) from the Pacific.
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Furneaux Group, a group of Australian islands that form part of the state of Tasmania.
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Eyre, Lake, a large intermittent salt lake in south-central Australia. It covers about 3,600 square miles (9,300 km2) and lies 52 feet (16 m) below sea level—the lowest elevation on the continent.
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Lord Howe Island, hou, a dependency of New South Wales, Australia, in the Tasman Sea 435 miles (700 km) northeast of Sydney.
See more »Mount Cook
Cook, Mount, the highest peak (12,349 feet [3,764 m]) in New Zealand. It is located in Tasman National Park in the west-central part of the South Island, and is part of the Southern Alps.
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Kosciusko, Mount, the highest peak in Australia. It rises 7,310 feet (2,228 m) above sea level, in southeastern New South Wales, near the Victoria border, and forms part of the Australian Alps.
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Murray River, Australia's principal river. It is about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) long, and with its tributaries, including the Darling and Murrumbidgee, forms a great river system in southeastern Australia that drains some 400,000 square miles (1,000,000 km2).
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Murrumbidgee River, a major river in Australia and a part of the Murray-Darling system.
See more »Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island, an island in the South Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, about 375 miles (600 km) south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
See more »Sutherland Falls
Sutherland Falls, a waterfall in Fiordland National Park on the South Island of New Zealand.
See more »The Admiralty Islands
Admiralty Islands, a group of about 18 islands forming part of the Bismarck Archipelago in the southwest Pacific Ocean.
See more »The Bismarck Archipelago
Bismarck Archipelago, a crescent-shaped group of islands in the South Pacific, northeast of New Guinea.
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Chatham Islands, two small islands and some islets in the Pacific, making up a county of New Zealand.
See more »The Darling River
Darling River, the main tributary of Australia's largest river, the Murray. The Darling has headwaters in the Great Dividing Range and flows southwestward about 1,810 miles (2,910 km), mainly through New South Wales.
See more »The Fitzroy River
Fitzroy River, the name of two Australian rivers. The Mackenzie and Dawson rivers join to form the Fitzroy of eastern Queensland.
See more »The Great Australian Bight
Great Australian Bight, a bay of the Indian Ocean. It forms a hollow in the southern coast of Australia, about 720 miles (1,160 km) from east to west and 220 miles (354 km) from north to south.
See more »The Great Barrier Reef
Great Barrier Reef, a coral reef in the Pacific Ocean extending about 1,250 miles (2,000 km) along the coast of Queensland, Australia.
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