Thursday, February 17, 2011

Year 9: Australia's Large Coastline



Write a blog post explaining the positive and negative aspects of Australia having a long coastline and large EEZ. (give at least 5 dot points for each advantage/disadvantage).


Advantages: 

  • Fisheries 
  • Trade - transportation for various water levels that also allow trade along the coast. 
  • Tourism
  • Australia has the right to explore and use marine sources within the coastline.
  • Generation of electricity by tapping tidal waves.



Disadvantages:

  • More area to control.
  • Australia is separated from many countries.
  • Tsunami's
  • Habitat loss through erosion.
  • Loss of coastal land as a result of erosion.

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