Monday, February 21, 2011

1.2 Australia Size & Shape

1: 7.6 million square k's
2: 16.1 million square k's
3: United States, Russia, Canada, China, Brazil
4: 25
5: 36,000 km
6: Canada 240,000 km
7: 7
8: Heard Island
9: It has a small population in a large area
10:  200km South of Sydney, 500 residents
11: Canada and Australia have large coastlines due to the fact they are separate from countries on the coastline. Canada's territory stretches up into the southern arctic and out to the easy and west and with Australia all the coastline is on the sea as we are an island
12:  Advantages:

- Able to search ocean waters freely
- Able to conduct projects or research without any involvement from a forgein body
- Able to take marine life away for testing or to be used for a breeding farm
- Able to fish in a larger area of water
- Able to search for ship wrecks without any international quarrels

Disadvantages:
- Quarrels with other countries over boundary limits
- Having to cover a larger area
- Watching out for human trafficking
- Making sure whaling ships aren't in Australian waters 
- Keep a look out for poachers is difficult

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