. Europe and other continents . Fig. 340. January isotherms for southeastern Australia-summer for that hemisphere. the e a st e r nhighland has anabundant rain-fall on its sea-ward side and isclothed withdense crossingthe mountains,however, thewinds are so drythat the forestgradually disap-pears, changingfirst to open,park-like wood- mid- boats carryingdivers and theirassistants, usu-ally Malays, areengaged on thisreef and thenorthern shoresof Australia infishing for pearls,pearl shell, andother products oftropical waters. Climate. — Since Australialies within thebelt of the sout
. Europe and other continents . Fig. 340. January isotherms for southeastern Australia-summer for that hemisphere. the e a st e r nhighland has anabundant rain-fall on its sea-ward side and isclothed withdense crossingthe mountains,however, thewinds are so drythat the forestgradually disap-pears, changingfirst to open,park-like wood- mid- boats carryingdivers and theirassistants, usu-ally Malays, areengaged on thisreef and thenorthern shoresof Australia infishing for pearls,pearl shell, andother products oftropical waters. Climate. — Since Australialies within thebelt of the south-east trade winds,. Fig. isotherms for southeastern Australia — mid-win-ter for that hemisphere. CLIMATE 465 lands, then to grass-covered uplands, and finally to desertlowlands, still partly unexplored. The low interior moun-tain ranges cause only a slight rainfall which supplies thesalt lakes of the interior. During the southern winter the interior becomes cold,and the heavy air presses outward toward the coast ascold land winds;but during thesummer the dryinterior is so in-tensely heatedthat monsoonwinds blow fromthe northeast andbring equatorialrain to the north-ern coasts. Inthis section arefound areas oftropical andTasmania arereached by theprevailing west-erlies, with their cyclonic storms, which bring variableweather and rainfall, as in eastern United States. Theserainy sections are also clothed with forests. It is therefore only along portions of the coast that there is enough rainfall for agriculture, while the interior, and much the greater part of the co
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