Monday, February 21, 2011

The Positive & Negative Effects of Australia having a Long Coastline & Large EEZ

Advantages of Long Coastline:                                            
- Allows beautiful views                                                        
- Allows tropical environments                                              
- Shipping Access                                                                
- Tourism                                                                             
- Residential Needs                                                               
- Isolation



Disadvantages of Long Coastline:
                                                                      - Hard to control from a distance                                                                         - Closer to Attack                                                                                           
- Hard to Maintain
- Hard to export goods and other necessities                                                    - Hard to travel                       

Advantages of EEZ:
- Allows power in other parts of the world
- Allows rights to marine recources
- Allows more land
- Tourism
- Allows more military forces

Disadvantages of Long Coastline:
- More vulnerable to attack
- Harder to travel
- Danger from Isolation 
- Tsunami Hazard's
- More Cyclones and Tropical Storms

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