I'm doing a project thats due tomorrow and I was wondering is tsunmais ever hit Australia, like on the coasts and all that?
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http://www.ga.gov.au/urban/factsheets/tsunami4.jsp\n\nA tsunami is recorded on Australia's coastline about once every two years. However, most are very small and classified low risk. However, several large tsunamis have hit Australia's north-west coast. This area is classified moderate risk, due to its proximity to Indonesia and other countries where large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions can occur, so this region has a moderate tsunami risk.\nThe huge 1883 volcanic eruption of Krakatau in Indonesia produced tsunamis up to 40 metres high. These tsunamis killed 36,000 people, carried boats three kilometres inland and moved 100 tonne blocks of reef limestone. The tsunamis travelled across the Pacific and Indian Oceans and caused a six metre tsunami on the north west coast of Australia.\nIn the last 1000 years the Australian coast may have experienced large tsunamis because shells, coral and large boulders have been found 20-30 metres above sea level and several kilometres inland. On 22 August 2003 a huge earthquake occurred just off the south-west coast of New Zealand, 2500 kilometres from Australia's east coast. Fortunately this event only caused a small local tsunami less than a metre high.
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Check out this link for the answer to your question:\n\nhttp://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Asia/Taiwan/index.html
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http://www.nationalseniors.com.au/Branches%20Map.htm \n\nTry this link\n\nHope this will help
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Countries on the southern hemisphere. Think about the tilting earth as it orbits. Australia would be a good example.
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I have to admit im not too clued up on the geology of Maryland, however over here in the UK we have in the Mendip Hills something which resembles Obsidian but in fact its not. On a university field trip we went to an old smelt, where the guys used to smelt Limestone and the result was this black shiny stuff that looked identical to Obsidian. The stuff was strewn all over the place in big heaps. Confused the 'ell out of us students initially until we were told the what it actually was. I wish I could remember more about it but then again uni was a bit of a blur!
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Holy cow-thats a Master's thesis project at least!  Ok, there are lots of theories out there concerning a cataclymic hit-and since both she and the people she is comparing also believe in the asteroid theory, we have to just think of all the things that could happen, reasonably:\nThe ashes from the volcanoes could block out the sun so drastically that it became too cold for the dinosaurs to live\nThe ashes blocked the sun out sufficiently to kill the major plant life, so the herbivorous dinos starved, and then the carnivores starved.\nThe volcanoes spewed out sufficient CO2 that the dinos suffocated\nThe volcanoes spewed out toxic gas that poisoned the dinos.\nThe volcanoes subtly changed the climate so that over thousands or hundreds of thousands of year, other lifeforms, such as mammals, birds, and the surviving reptiles, gains a major advantage and caused the dino extinction.\nAbout the meteor:  Either you could hypothesize that the volcanoes erupted spontaneously, and it had nothing to do with meteors, or that the meteors by themselves weren't a killing force but disrupted the crust of the Earth sufficient to open up volcanoes all over the Earth, or that the meteor alone killed most of the dinosaurs, and the resulting volcanoes killed off the rest.\nI didnt mention the effects of tsunamis and earthquakes caused by the volcanoes because that wouldnt reasonably be enough to kill off all the dinos.\nHope those ideas help-good luck.
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It is estimated to be between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. No accurate analysis has been conducted. It is beleived they arrived accross from PNG. It is interesting to note that also the dingo did arrive the same way, having ancestors that originate in S.E. ASIA.
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Get some global perspective PromoProductGuy, the Northern Territory is in Australia you tool. Not everyone in the world lives in northern america.\n\nFrom what I know of the NT, the weather is tropical. The average temperature is in the 30s most of the year. It's really wet and humid in summer and dry and hot in winter. (I'm from SA)
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I just asked a question about the Montauk Project myself.I read the books.They seem to be very technically correct about a lot of the  things they talk about.So who-ever wrote them wasn't an idiot or a nut making up a story. I believe that the things spoken of in the stories are more than likely possible.Whether or not they actually happened as it is written,or if we really do possess this secret technoIogy, I don't know.In a way though,I kind of hope it isn't completely true,because the story of these projects are filled with abuse and inhuman treatment of human beings in the name of scientific developement and whatever else.
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There was an article published in the New York Sun, about this  possibility.  \n\nDecember 29, 2004 Edition > Section:  New York\nTsunami Could Hit Here, Geologists Say\n\nBy JEREMY SMERD - Special to the Sun\nDecember 29, 2004\n\nUnfortunately, you have to subscribe in order to read the article.  I was unwilling to do this.  Sorry.
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Britain / Australia (either is correct) - Whales - Fibres from Flax - Farming - Gold - Thames - Food - Sheep....\n\nAny other homework you need doing????
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Take a look at this website, it has lots of information, about the sea bat..\nhttp://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=109153
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(m)\n\nAustralia (also called Australia-New Guinea, Sahul, Meganesia, Greater Australia or Australinea) is a continent comprising (in order of size) the Australian mainland, New Guinea, Tasmania, and intervening islands, all of which sit on the same continental shelf. These landmasses are separated by seas overlying the continental shelf — the Arafura Sea and Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, and Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania.\n\nWhen sea levels were lower during the Pleistocene ice age, including the last glacial maximum about 18,000 years ago, the lands formed a single, continuous landmass. During the past ten thousand years rising sea levels overflowed the lowlands and separated the continent into today's low-lying semi-arid mainland and the two mountainous islands of New Guinea and Tasmania.\n\nGeologically the continent extends to the edge of the continental shelf, so the now-separate lands can still be considered a continent.[1] Due to the spread of flora and fauna across the single Pleistocene landmass, the separate lands have a related biota.\n\nNew Zealand is not on the same continental shelf and so is not part of the continent of Australia but is part of the wider region known as Australasia.
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It's a beautiful island 240 kilometers (about 150 miles) off the southeast coast of Australia. Its capital is Hobart.\n\nThe population of Tasmania is 485,000. \n\nMain centres are Hobart (the capital city with 200,000 people) Launceston (98,500) Burnie (18,000)  and Devonport (25,000)\n \nTasmania has more than 2000 km of walking tracks and 18 national parks.\n \nThe Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area covers 1.38 million hectares. \n\nHobart has the nation’s second-lowest rainfall (626 mm or 24 inches) of all Australian capital cities.\n \nThe average summer temperature is a comfortable 21°C (70°F). Winter’s average is 12°C (52° F). \n \nAnd yes they DO have Tasmanian Devils there!
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I had the honor of escorting some students to space camp. There is something about the Outback in Australia that attracts objects from space. The majority of the exhibits came from there, including what was left of the 1st space lab. Why the attraction I have no idea unless it has something to do with gravitational pull. But the outback is desolate as the deserts here who would notice?
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Seems like it's Indonesian. I found an on-line translator & here's the result: Has the bang arrived in Australia?\nDoesn't sound too reliable, but it's a start :)
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Gp should read   Australia & Japan!!!\notherwise OK!!!