World Atlas 2010 (4th edition)

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Warrnambool

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Mount Gambier

Cooma

Horsham

Cootamundra

Port

Lincoln

Mildura

Ouyen

Whyalla

PortAugusta

Dubbo

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Port Macquarie

Tamworth

Nyngan

Armidale

Walgett

GraftonCoffs Harbour

Moree

Maryborough Murwillumbah

Marrawah

Gawler

Ceduna

Penong

Tarcoola

Coober

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Peterborough

Marree

Crystal Brook

Wilcannia

Ivanhoe

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Goondiwindi

St. George

Dalby

Cunnamulla

Roma

Miles

Charleville

Surfer's Paradise

MELBOURNE

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Geelong

Wollongong

Newcastle

Parramatta

CANBERRA

Huge truck rigs known asRoad Trains, which can reachup to 175 ft (53.5 m) in length,carry freight across the vastdistances of the Australian interior.They have as many as fourtrailers, weighing more than150 tons (tonnes) in total.

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platypus

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environment, suckles its younglike a mammal, lays eggs, andhas webbed feet and a billresembling that of a duck.

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