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14  INTRODUCING SY DNEY

Putting Sydney on the Map

Situated on Australia’s eastern coastline within the state of New
South Wales, Sydney spreads with the rare luxury of space – Arafura Sea Torres Strait
Cape York
3,700 sq km (1,430 sq miles) in all – around what is considered Bathurst
one of the world’s finest harbours, and west to the natural Island
barrier of the mountainous Great Dividing Range. n Darwin Arnhem Land
Greater Sydney is home to more than 5 million e a Timor Gulf of
people and, while it is not the nation’s capital, c Sea Katherine Groote Carpentaria
it is Australia’s oldest and largest city, as well O Eylandt
as its media and financial centre. Sydney Wyndham Cooktown
is also the main gateway to Australia Mornington
Island
and it enjoys good air, road and rail Ord Victoria

links to other major centres. n Broome Derby Cairns

I n d i a Fitzroy Tennant Creek Flin d ers Townsville
Port Hedland Proserpine
NOR T HERN
Karratha Mount Isa Mackay Great Bar r ier Reef
TERRI TOR Y P
QUEENSLAND a
Lake
Lake Mackay c
Newman Disappointment Longreach Rockhampton
Alice i
Springs Blackall Hervey Bay f
Carnarvon Diamantina Fraser i
Island
Uluru _ c
Shark Bay WESTERN (Ayers Rock)
(Monkey Mia) Charleville Maroochydore
AUSTRALIA O
Brisbane
Toowoomba c
Lake Coolangatta e
Geraldton Coober Eyre
Pedy Moree a
SOUTH AUSTRALIA Bourke n
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Lake Darling Coffs Harbour
Lake Torrens NEW
Perth Gairdner Broken SOUTH
Hill
Fremantle Ceduna Dubbo
Great W ALES Maitland Newcastle
Whyalla
Australian Bight Murray
Augusta Esperance Sydney
Cape Port Mildura Wollongong
Leeuwin Albany Lincoln Adelaide Wagga Wagga Canberra
AUSTRALIAN
NORTH Kangaroo
KOREA JAPAN Island VICTORIA CAPITAL
CHINA
PAKISTAN BHUTAN SOUTH P ACIFIC TERRITORY
KOREA
INDIA BURMA TAIWAN OCEAN Melbourne a
THAILAND PHILIPPINES Geelong e
CAMBODIA MARSHALL Key S
ISLANDS
MALDIVES MALAYSIA MICRONESIA King Bass Strait n
PAPUA International airport Island Flinders a
NEW Island
INDONESIA GUINEA Domestic airport
SOLOMON Devonport m
INDIAN ISLANDS Passenger ship terminal
OCEAN VANUATU Launceston s
FIJI Freeway or motorway
NEW T ASMANIA
A USTRALIA CALEDONIA T a
Highway
Southeast Asia NEW Railway Hobart
and the Pacific Rim ZEALAND
State boundary
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