{"id":105377,"date":"2026-05-27T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T09:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=105377"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:01:28","slug":"australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Australia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Prime Minister said that India and Australia will continue to work for a free, open, secure and prosperous Indo-Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Australia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is the <\/span><b>smallest continent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the largest country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Water Bodies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is bounded by major bodies namely the <\/span><b>Indian Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the west and the <\/span><b>South Pacific Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the east.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>It is separated from<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Papua New Guinea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the <\/span><b>Coral Sea and Torres Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the northeast;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><b>Indonesia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the <\/span><b>Timor and Arafura seas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><b>northwest;<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><b>Coral Sea Islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Territory by the <\/span><b>Great Barrier Reef<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From <\/span><b>New Zealand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <\/span><b>Tasman Sea to the southeast<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Canberra<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Australia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Australia experiences <\/span><b>diverse climate types<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to its large north-south extent, majorly covering temperate and tropical along with other zones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The highest point in Australia, <\/span><b>Mount Kosciuszko,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at 2,228 m (7,310 ft).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Rivers:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Murray-Darling, Murrumbidgee, &amp; Lachlan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Deserts:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of expansive deserts such as the <\/span><b>Great Victoria Desert, the Gibson Desert, and the Simpson Desert.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It consists of gold, iron ore, lead, nickel, rutile, uranium, zinc and zircon, brown coal, cobalt, copper, ilmenite, lithium, silver, tungsten and vanadium.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pm-reaffirms-stability-prosperity-in-indo-pacific-in-meetings-with-foreign-ministers-of-australia-japan\/article71027081.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is the smallest continent and the largest country. 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