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A R A F U R A Badu I Moa I
S E A Cape York
Bamaga
Cape Wessel
Croker I Wessel Is CAPE YORK Cape Grenville C O R A L S E A
Melville I Goulburn Is Weipa PENINSULA
Nhulunbuy Albatross Bay Cape Direction
Cape Arnhem
Bathurst I Arnhem Bay Archer
Cape
Jabiru
Beagle Gulf A R N H E M Gulf of Melville Osprey
Reefs
I N D I A N Darwin Batchelor L A N D Alyangula Groote Carpentaria Coen Cape Flattery
O C E A N Pine Creek Katherine Maria I Eylandt Laura Cooktown CORAL SEA
Cape Londonderry Joseph Daly ISLANDS
Altitudes in meters Bonaparte Mataranka Vanderlin I Mossman TERRITORY
Gulf (AUSTRALIA)
6000 Larrimah Mornington I Cairns
4000 Timber Creek Borroloola Wellesley Is 1611
3000 Bonaparte Drysdale Wyndham Daly Bartle Frere
Archipelago Kununurra Victoria Waters Bentinck I
2000 River Downs Normanton
1000 Durack Lake
Argyle
500 Collier Victoria Lake Forsayth
Bay
200 Cape Leveque KIMBERLEY Woods Burketown Leichhardt Townsville Ayr Bowen
0
PLATEAU Lajamanu Charters Whitsunday I
Derby Camooweal Kajabbi Towers Proserpine
Halls Creek T A N A M I Tennant Flinders 1277
200 Broome Liveringa Fitzroy D E S E R T Creek Mount Isa Richmond Mt. Dalrymple Mackay Swain
Reefs
Roebuck Bay Crossing Sturt Creek Cloncurry Sarina
2000
Depr. 4000 Lagrange Lake Dajarra Clermont
6000 Gregory Lake Barrow Winton Yeppoon
White Creek Georgina Boulia Rockhampton
GREAT SANDY Q U E E N S L A N D Curtis I
DESERT Lake Longreach Barcaldine Gladstone
m Shay Gap Wills Lake Yuendumu Sandy
Mackay Alice Blackall BUCKLAND Cape
Port Hedland 1510 Springs Bundaberg
Mt. Ziel TABLELAND
Karratha Lake Diamantina Yaraka
Marble Bar Macdonald Maryborough
Oakover
Roebourne Lake Warrego Gympie
Nullagine Windorah
Lake Neale Lake Charleville Tewantin
Lake
Pannawonica Disappointment Hapkins Amadeus Birdsville Mitchell Roma Nambour
North S I M P S O N Quilpie Dalby
West Hamersley Ra. Ayers Rock Erldunda Brisbane
Cape Onslow Tom Price 1250 W E S T E R N 867 D E S E R T D A R L I N G
Mt Meharry Newman GIBSON St George Toowoomba
Paraburdoo Ashburton DESERT 1440 Alberga Cunnamulla D O W N S Gold Coast
Cardabia Mt. Woodroffe Oodnadatta S T U RT Dirranbandi Byron Bay
Casino
Mt Augustus Warburton Hungerford Mungindi Glen
Minilya 1106 A U S T R A L I A Lake Eyre DESERT Moree Inverell Innes Grafton
Lake
Blanche
Gascoyne Carnegie Lake Wells Coober Pedy Lake Tibooburra Brewarrina Walgett Armidale
Wiluna S O U T H Darling Bourke Narrabri Macksville
Bernier I Meekatharra V I C T O R I A Lake Lake Tamworth Port
Murchison Maralinga A U S T R A L I A Frome Wilcannia Cobar Macquarie
Maurice
Denham Laverton G R E A T D E S E R T Woomera Torrens S O U T H Taree
Warren
Lake
Leonora Lake Carey Lake Broken Hill N E W Dubbo
Mount Magnet P L A I N
Kalbarri Penong Macfarlane Ivanhoe Lachlan Parkes Orange Newcastle
Lake Menzies Ceduna Lake Port Augusta
Barlee Lake Fowlers Bay Gairdner Darling Forbes Lithgow
Northampton Ballard Streaky Whyalla Port Pirie W A L E S Sydney
Mullewa Lake Eucla Streaky Bay Bay Burra
Geraldton Moore Kalgoorlie Mundrabilla Great Australian Bight Kyancutta Murray Mildura Griffith Goulburn Wollongong
Dongara Bonnie Rock Coolgardie Kambalda EYRE Wagga Wagga Yass Nowra
Lake North Cape PEN. Gawler CANBERRA
Mukinbudin Southern Cross Cowan Port Spencer Gulf Adelaide Murray Tumut CAPITAL TERRITORY
Balladonia Lincoln Swan Hill Albury
Merredin Cape Mt. Kosciuszko Narooma
Yanchep York Whangarei Carnot Investigator Strait L.Alexandrina Nhill Shepparton Wangaratta 2237 Bega
Perth Hyden Esperance Great Kangaroo I Horsham V I C T O R I A Eden
Rockingham Kaipara Harbour Barrier I Cape Jaffa Mt. William 1167 Melbourne Cape Howe
Takapuna
Mandurah Auckland Ballarat Bairnsdale
Katanning
Bunbury Hood A Bay of Mount Gambier Moe Sale
Plenty
Geographe Bay Point E Manukau Waikato Tauranga Discovery Bay Portland Colac Geelong T A S M A N
Busselton S Hamilton
Margaret River Albany North Island Tokoroa Cape Otway Furneaux S E A
Cape Leeuwin Denmark N New Plymouth Taupo Gisborn Group
Flinders Bay A Mt. Ruapehu Gurrie King I Flinders I Cape Barren I
2797
M Wairoa
S
MAJOR LANDFORMS ON THE young and old. Mountain which are still rising
T A
CONTINENTS like the Himalayas are called young fold-
Major landforms on the continents are formed by mountains. The pointed summits of mountain
internal earth movements. These formations are called peaks. Old mountain ranges like the
make the earth’s surface very undulating. The Aravalli in India, and Urals of Russia are low in
difference in elevation and slope between the height and have rounded peaks. Being the oldest
higher and lower parts is called relief. Major mountain ranges, over long periods of time, they
types of landforms are described below.
Mountains
A mountain is a steep landmass, rising to at least
610 meters above the surroundings. Mountains
several characteristic features are generally
classified into three types based on how they
were formed – fold mountain, block mountain
and volcanic mountain.
The chief mountain ranges of the world like
Himalayas and Anes are arranged in rows called
range. The mountains are also classified as Mountains
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