Quick Quiz: Australian Geography

Question: What is Australia’s tallest mountain?

Answer: Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak in Australia. It is 7,310 feet (2,228 m) tall and is located in the Snowy Mountains of the Australian Alps in southeastern New South Wales, 240 miles (390 km) southwest of Sydney.

Question: In Australia, any inland area remote from large centres of population is called what?

Answer: In Australia, any inland area remote from large centres of population is known as the Outback. Generally, the term is applied to semiarid inland areas of eastern Australia and to the arid centre of the Western Plateau and its semiarid northern plains (in Western Australia), where bodies of water are scattered and frequently dry. The Macdonnell, Musgrave, and Petermann mountain ranges and four major deserts, the Gibson, the Great Sandy, the Great Victoria, and the Tanami, are situated in this latter region.

Question: In which Australian state is the Cape York Peninsula located?

Answer: Cape York Peninsulais in the state of Queensland. It lies in the northernmost extremity of Australia, projecting into Torres Strait between the Gulf of Carpentaria (west) and the Coral Sea (east). From its tip at Cape York it extends southward for about 500 miles (800 km), widening to its base, which spans 400 miles (650 km) from Cairns (east) to the Gilbert River (west).