Ray Andrews, Australia’s extremes guru
Ray Andrews, Australia’s extremes guru is now a guest speaker at Outdoor camping and 4WD shows throughout Australia. Catch the extremes guru next in Nambour, Rockhampton, Newcastle and Toowoomba. Ray Andrews discusses Australia’s geographic records and is available for book signings on the day.
Australian Extremes
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 Largest Tides
Tides Nowhere can you see the influence of the gravitational effects of the sun and the moon as when you watch the tidal stream flood and ebb over reef flats, through channels and up coastal estuaries. When perigee and full moons coincide, which happens in either March or April, extreme tidal variation takes place right […]
Mountains
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Mountains 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 […]
Sea Arch
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS info and updates coming soon
Sea Stack
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Largest Sea Stacks Ball’s Pyramid is 562 metres high, 1,100 metres long, and less than 300 metres wide at its widest point at the base. It claims to fame is being the tallest sea-stack on the planet. By definition, a sea stack differs from a sea cliff in that […]
Sand Islands
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Sand Islands For some 500 kilometres north from the beaches of Byron Bay, to just beyond the northern tip of Fraser Island, sand is, by and large, the dominant coastal soil type. These, together with the islands of North and South Stradbroke, Moreton, Bribie, and Fraser make up […]
Drainage Basins
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Australian Drainage Basins Australia has a multitude of river basin draining to three oceans, the remnants of an inland sea (Lake Eyre Basin) and others which drain to desert salt lakes. In the image of Australia’s Drainage basins below, what appears to be the largest drainage basin […]
Rivers
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Australian Rivers The longest river in Australia goes by the name of the Murray-Darling-Culgoa-Balonne-Condamine, the MDCBC, or just the Murray Darling for short. If you trace the most extended section of the MDCBC, you will eventually find yourself on the summit of Mount Superbus in south-east Queensland […]
Monoliths
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES SOCIETY AUSTRALIAN RECORDS Monoliths There are many claims to the title of Australia’s largest Monolith. Mount Augustus to the west of Carnarvon in central Western Australia, often claims to be the world’s largest rock. Quite a deal of literature cites claims to the fact that Mount Augustus is twice as large as […]