Australian landforms

ABC Splash presents a collection of videos about Australian and other landforms, including the Blue Mountains, Snowy Mountains, Flinders Ranges, Australian Alps, Whitsunday Islands, Uluru, Gold Coast, Wollemi National Park.

Wollemi National Park is part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. The traditional owners are the Wiradjuri people. This clip will take you on a guided tour of Dunns Swamp, in the north-west section of the park. The spectacular ancient landscape draws thousands of tourists each year but if you know where to look you will also see signs of the distant past.

The top ten Australian landforms in this list include: Uluru, Heart Reef, Bungle Bungle Ranges, Cradle Mountain, Daintree rainforest, the Three Sisters, Horizontal Falls, Flinders Ranges, the 12 Apostles, and Katherine Gorge, accompanied by a brief description.

Geoscience Australia has information on the landforms of Australia, the water bodies, significant rock formations, mountains, rivers, waterfalls, deserts. The variety of landscapes are the result of prolonged, continuous processes of movement and erosion over millions of years.

The Geography AS Notes site about river landforms has topics on potholes, V-shaped valleys, waterfalls, rapids, meanders, oxbow lakes, braided channels, flood plains, levees, and deltas.

Learn and revise about coastal landforms created by erosion and deposition with BBC Bitesize Geography. It includes diagrams of stump formations, and longshore drifts and spits.

This ebook chapter on glaciers explains glacial erosion processes, the features associated with alpine glaciation, and glacial deposits, with examples from Canada.

ABC Splash presents a collection of videos about Australian and other landforms, including the Blue Mountains, Snowy Mountains, Flinders Ranges, Australian Alps, Whitsunday Islands, Uluru, Gold Coast, Wollemi National Park.

This CoolGeography page of resources aims to help students understand plate boundaries and their associated landforms and gives examples of the Great African Rift Valley and the Andes Mountains.

The 'Rock Landforms of Australia and New Zealand' website by Col Grant, is intended for geography students. The website emphasises the ways that natural processes develop a variety of features upon different rock types. Topics include igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic and tectonic landforms.

This physical geography website uses the theme of Matthew Flinders to assist in explaining and describing the coastal landforms of the Twelve Apostles in western Victoria. The site describes and explains the nature of the erosion of limestone cliffs and the numerous features that result from marine processes.

The Blue Mountains region west of Sydney is a place of varying landforms including deep canyons, tall waterfalls and sandstone structures such as the Three Sisters.

This collection of ABC resources on geology include videos on rock formations, fold mountains, volcanoes, rivers, caves, earthquakes, the Jurassic Coast, fossils and oil.

The Nature section of this site has information on the animals, the plants, the marine environment and the landforms on Heard Island and McDonald Islands, in the southwest Indian Ocean: the geomorphology, glaciers and wetlands.

The Australian continent is broadly divided into 4 major landform regions, eastern highlands, central lowlands, western plateau and the coastal plains. Further links explain A-tents, flared slopes, tectonic landforms, transform strike-slip, erosion, and chemical and physical weathering.

Dwayne and Trevor show us around their their work environment as Bardi Jawi Rangers, working hard to care for country on the Dampier Peninsula in the West Kimberley. Landforms and landscape aesthetic, cultural and spiritual value of landscapes and landforms for people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

The creation of Uluru and Kata Tjuta, both were formed at the same time, began over 500 million years ago. This ABC Science article explains the process.

Oz Coasts, Australia's online coastal information, provides comprehensive information about Australia's coastline, including its estuaries and coastal waterways. Coastal fact sheets with diagrams are particularly useful.

This geology page from the Department of the Environment describes the formation of Uluru and Kata Tjuta from the perspective of a geologist, accompanied by diagrams showing the process.

A diagram accompanies this explanation of the formation of the Glass House Mountains of Queensland, and their origin as dome-like plugs of magma from volcanoes, revealed over time by erosion.

From the Esri Story Maps team comes Peaks and Valleys: A 3-D tour of our planet's highest and lowest spots. As its title suggests, visitors to this resource will be treated to a highly visual virtual tour of some of the most iconic landmarks around the globe, along with a few with which readers may not be familiar. The tour begins in Asia's Himalaya Mountains with the world's five tallest peaks, which include the famous Mount Everest, well known as the world's tallest mountain, as well as the fifth-highest peak Makalu, which is only 1,191 feet shy of Everest's height. Interestingly, the deepest gorge in the world, Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, is also located in the Himalayas and thus is the next stop. The tour visits many other locations throughout the world, including (among others) Chimborazo and Badwater Basin in the Americas, Kilimanjaro and Lake Assal in Africa, and Vinson Massif in Antarctica. Each stop includes a brief description, the location's elevation in both feet and meters, a photograph, and 3-D imagery (which may require a little patience to load). For armchair travelers, this whirlwind tour of Earth's superlatives is worth a visit.