Description : Australia is known as the flattest continent. Why? -Geography
Last Answer : Out of the total land surface in Australia 94% is less than 600 mt. above sea level, comprising of flat lowland. Therefore it is known as the ‘Flattest continent’.
Last Answer : The continent of Australia consists of 5 countries.
Description : Why is the continent of Australia called Oceania?
Last Answer : Oceania denotes the region encompassing the Australian continent and various islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Description : The “Dark Continent” is - (1) Africa (2) South America (3) Australia (4) Asia
Last Answer : (1) Africa Explanation: Dark Continent is a former name for Africa. It is so used because its hinterland was largely unknown and therefore mysterious to Europeans until the 19th century. Henry M. Stanley was probably the first to use the term in his 1878 account Through the Dark Continent.
Description : The Continent through which the imaginary lines of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Carpricorn and Equator pass, is - (1) Africa (2) Australia (3) Europe (4) Asia
Last Answer : (1) Africa Explanation: Africa is the only continent through which all the main latitude lines; Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, pass. The Prime Meridian (a line of longitude) also passes through Africa.
Description : Australia is not __________ (A) a country. (B) an island continent. (C) a city. (D) a state.
Last Answer : (C) a city.
Description : Before the British explored the eastern coast of Australia, the continent had been called __________ (A) New Holland. (B) New France. (C) New England. (D) New Spain.
Last Answer : (A) New Holland.
Description : The Continent through which the imaginary lines of Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Carpricorn and Equator pass, is (1) Africa (2) Australia (3) Europe (4) Asia
Last Answer : Africa