Member Benefits Users Guide Aboriginal Nations - Geography Australia is a continent of contrasting geography and climate. The northern coast is a varied landscape of rainforest, flood plains, mountains and escarpment country.
Waterfalls cascade from mountains and plateaux to fill the coastal wet-lands.
Inland the environment transforms from savanna forest into the mulga woodlands, sand dunes and grassy plains that cover most of inland Australia. The desert meets the sea over vast stretches of the southern and western coast lines. The Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range traces the coast from the south east along the entire east coast to the tip of Cape York disappearing into the sea and emerging to form the Torres Strait Islands. It is an appropriately named mountain range as it divides the dry inland from the wet coast. Where it commences in the south adjacent to the Antarctic ocean the mountains are sub-alpine and snow bound in winter time.