Australian Extremes
Have you ever wondered what the longest river in Australia was? Australian Extremes will have the answer. What about where the highest mountain in Australia. Australian Extremes will have the answer as well. This were students, academics and nature enthusiasts all get the definitive information on Australia’s geographic, climate and natural history records.
Australia’s extremes guru, Ray Andrews, takes you on a journey through Australia. Ray Andrews is a naturalist, author and public speaker who has for the last few decades amassed an incredible library of extreme records. Australian Extremes looks at a range of topics including, where Australia’s greatest tides are, Australia’s longest cliff lines, Australia’s rainfall records, the driest locations in Australia and where Australia’s largest trees grow. Have you ever considered where the longest beaches are, the biggest deserts, oldest rocks or the deepest lakes. Take a look at Australia in a totally different way.
Australia’s tallest mountain
There are many arguments as to whether Mauna Kea in Hawaii or Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain. Mount Everest is officially the planets tallest mountain, but it is hard to ignore the claims of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rising from five kilometres below the sea to five kilometres above.
If we were to measure the Australia’s tallest mountain by the distance from the centre of the earth it would give us a very different extreme point to the widely accepted Mount Everest. The Earth has a bulge around the equator due to centrifugal forces from it’s constant rotation. Mountains found at the equator are further from the centre of the Earth. Mount Chimborazo in the Ecuadorian Andes is only one degree south of the Equator and at 6,263 metres above sea level is 6,384 metres from the centre of the Earth compared to Mount Everest’s 6,384 metres from Earth’s centre. Mount Kosciuszko, also spelled Mount Kosciusko, Australia’s Tallest Mountain.
Explore Australia through the lens of its Geographic, climate and Natural history records. Click on the category below which is of interest to you and learn about the countries amazing diversity.
Australia’s largest tides
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Wild Extremes isn’t a book of endless records but rather tells the backstory to Australia’s geographic records. It explores the controversies around records and examines how plants and animals have adapted to extreme locations.
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About the Author
RAY ANDREWS
Ray Andrews has travelled throughout Australia and the South Pacific as a naturalist for thirty years. After a night by a campfire discussing Australia’s monoliths, he decided to set records straight and began a two-decade quest to unearth the geographic records of this nation.
Ray Andrews was the founder of the Geographic Extremes Society whose aim is to venture into the far-flung regions of the continent and explore its geographic wonders. This book is the culmination of his work documenting Australia’s natural history.
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