What are the natural features of Queensland?

Answer 1

sunshine, rain, scenery, beaches, agriculture, coal mining , mineral mining, cane toads (unfortunately), growing tropical fruit, bananas, pineapples, the Darling Downs is the growing food bowl of Queensland, wheat, vegetables, cattle.

Answer 2

Natural features of any region include creeks and rivers, coastline, mountains, islands, etc. Notable natural features of Queensland include:

• the Great Barrier Reef: at about 2000km long, it is the world's largest coral reef
• the highest mountain is Mt Bartle Frere, in north Queensland
• the Atherton Tableland is a significant feature of north Queensland, and around where the Great Dividing Range starts. this range extends right down the coast of Queensland, through NSW to Victoria.
• the Whitsunday Island group
• the hundreds of sand and mud islands of Moreton Bay
• Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island
• the outback
• the Channel country, where the Diamantina River and other Gulf rivers overflow across the countryside after the monsoonal summer rains
• the many other rivers and creeks

Answer 3

Queensland covers 22.5% of the Australian continent.

It is believed that the Queensland region was first inhabited 40,000 t 65,000 years ago by Aboriginees and Torres Strait Islanders.

The Great Barrier Reef is 2,600 km long and is located on the upper Queensland coastline.

Answer 4

Things unique to Queensland include natural and man-made features such as:

• The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame
• Kuranda Skyrail
• Undara lava tubes
• Moreton Bay islands
• Daintree rainforest
• Channel country of Western Queensland

Wildlife unique to Queensland includes:

• mahogany glider
• western little freetail bat
• purple-necked rock wallaby
• northern bettong
• green ringtail possum
• Daintree River ringtail possum
• Lemuroid ringtail possum
• musky rat-kangaroo
• Lumholtz's tree kangaroo
• Bennett's tree kangaroo