New geographies . Fig. A view in the forest of eastern that grow here. Notice the huge tree Instead of being distributed equally overall parts of the continent, these peopleare largely collected in the southern andeastern portions. The temperature is not the maincause of this, for that is pleasant enoughin most parts of Australia, ^he reason foras you can tell by the lati- this distribu-tude. Prove this by means *^°°of the map. What portion is in thetropical zone ? The great difficulty is the lack of rain,and this is due to the location of themountains and the direction o
New geographies . Fig. A view in the forest of eastern that grow here. Notice the huge tree Instead of being distributed equally overall parts of the continent, these peopleare largely collected in the southern andeastern portions. The temperature is not the maincause of this, for that is pleasant enoughin most parts of Australia, ^he reason foras you can tell by the lati- this distribu-tude. Prove this by means *^°°of the map. What portion is in thetropical zone ? The great difficulty is the lack of rain,and this is due to the location of themountains and the direction of the 240 WORLD GEOGRAPnr winds. The larger part of Australia isa low plateau, with the chief mountainrange on the eastern side. Point outthese mountains. What are they named ?. Fig. 30i. — a kaDgaroo. Notice how small the fore legsare, since they are so little used, -while the tail andhind legs, used in jumping, are very large. The prevailing winds come from thesoutheast, so that they must blow overthese mountains before reaching the in-terior. This causes heavy rainfall onthe eastern slopes, but as the winds con-tinue on toward the interior, they becomevery dry. At a distance of one hundredand fifty miles from the coast, it is so dry that farming without irrigation isimpossible. Farther west still, there areextensive deserts. How does this re-semble the conditions in the northwest-ern part of our own country (p. 144) ? If you examine tlie map, you will see signsof the desert, for some of the rivers flow intolakes that have no outlet. These lakes, there-fore, are salt, like the Great Salt Lake of is so little rainfall in the interior that theMurray Eiver becomes smaller toward its mouth,and its chief tributary, the Darling, dries upalmost entire
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