Northern Australia

For the former administrative subdivision, see North Australia.

Northern Australia
Area
A map showing the extent of the area

The geographic term Northern Australia is defined by Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act 2016 as all of the Northern Territory and those parts of Queensland and Western Australia that intersect with the Tropic of Capricorn, including the Australian Indian Ocean Territories of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Those local government areas of Western Australia and Queensland that lie partially in the north are included.

Although it comprises 53% of the total area of Australia, Northern Australia has only 5.2% of the Australian population (1.4 million). However, it includes several sources of Australian exports, being coal from the Great Dividing Range in Queensland/New South Wales and the natural gas and iron ore of the Pilbara region in Western Australia. It also includes major natural tourist attractions, such as Uluru (Ayers Rock), the Great Barrier Reef and the Kakadu National Park.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.