A Portrait of Australia: Coastal

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Join Australian Geographic on a journey to Australia's coast. With three-quarters of us living within cooee of the coast, it's not surprising that saltwater courses through the nation's lifeblood. The rest of the world knows us as much for our coastal features as for our legendary Red Centre. No-one owns any of our 10,700 beaches, but most of us each claim at least some possession, whether it's with a spot on a towel in the sun or in a Depression-era beach shack overlooking Australia's oldest national park, the Royal, south of Sydney. Much of Australia's vast inland is connected with the coast, via the mighty Murray, our longest river. This great snake of water finally reaches the coast at the Coorong on South Australia's south-east coast, to trickle into the Great Australian Bight. And just like so much of Australia's coast, life ripples and pulses under the influence of the tide.

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