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The CIA World Factbook geography note says Australia is the only continent without glaciers. The same note calls it the world's smallest continent but the sixth-largest country, the largest country in Oceania, the largest country entirely in the Southern Hemisphere, and the largest country without land borders. It also calls Australia the driest inhabited continent on earth. The Great Dividing Range along eastern Australia is described as that continent's longest mountain range and the third-longest land-based range in the world. The name refers to a watershed crest from which the rivers of eastern Australia flow east, west, north and south. The note adds that Australia hosts 10 percent of the world's biodiversity, and that a great number of its plants and animals exist nowhere else.
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