Sample Images - Australia's landscape & climate
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Australia at a glance:
- 770 million hectares total land area (or 7.7 million square km)
- 5% of the world's land mass
- 6th largest country
- 20 million people
- 164 million hectares of forest in 2003
- 5 million hectares of forest cleared from 1989 to 2004 - equivalent to clearing around 75% of Tasmania's land mass
- 984 million tonnes greenhouse emissions from deforestation since 1989 - equivalent to '95-times' the current annual emissions from all of Australia's passenger vehicles in 2003
