Queensland, Australia

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Queensland
Australia is known to be the lowest, flattest, and the driest of all the continents. Australia’s shape comes from a long period of earth’s movements, caused by plate tectonics. The river erosion has made many of the details in its shape. Queensland is the second largest state in Australia. Its exact location is 25º S, 141º E. The population is 3,757,300. Brisbane is its capital city. Another city is Cairns, which is the tropical capital of Queensland. The Atherton Tablelands border it. MacKay is a city just north of Brisbane. It contains twenty-five percent of Australia’s sugar yields.
Climate
Queensland is famous for its sun, but the climate does vary from coastal plain and the inland. Even though Queensland is referred to as the “holiday state” it is subject to monsoon rains. Its wet seasons are from December to March. The annual rainfall in the northern part of Queensland can exceed 4000 mm. Brisbane can high rainfall month is March. The annual rainfall for March can get as high as 141 mm. In 1974 a severe flood hit Queensland, because of Cyclone Wanda. It was the nation’s worst city flood. It killed sixteen people. There was another flood in 1990 that happened in Queensland and in New South Wales, which is south of Queensland. During this flood seven people were killed. Many of the floods that happen in Queensland are results of tropical cyclones. Cyclone Mahina had the greatest death toll of any natural disaster. It killed over 400 people. The cyclone hit in March of 1899, taking the fleet at Bathurst Bay. One of the most recent cyclones was Cyclone Steve. It was not a severe cyclone, but is know for the longevity that it had. It traveled through Queensland, the Northern Territory of Australia, and Western Australian. The cyclone never intensified further than Category one. The way the cyclone category system works is there are five categories. Category one means there will be negligible house damage, t...