Chapter 369: Western Australian Plateau

From Africa all the way to the south, you will find Oceania.

On the road, Qi Xiaoxian was silent. It was a long, far way out of Africa before he asked, "Are we just watching Africans being slaughtered?"

Du Lengqiu said lightly: "People will save themselves, and the day after tomorrow will save them." We are just mortals wallowing in the world, and we are not busy with our own affairs, how can we take care of Africans. ”

"If you practice with a nosy attitude, you will achieve nothing in your life. He paused, and Du Lengqiu said, "The most ruthless people in the world are all cultivators. Other people's opponents are all themselves, but cultivators have heaven in addition to being their own opponents. ”

"Cultivators pay attention to the Dharma, wealth, and land. ”

"Except for their own cultivators, cultivators have no scruples and nothing to care about. They only care about one thing, and that is whether they can live forever. ”

"Back then, Sun Wukong asked Su Bodhi three questions, all of which were 'Can you live forever?', which shows that in the world of cultivators, they only care about immortality. ”

Qi Xiaoxian was silent.

After a long time, he sighed, "I only wish that cultivators would not be so ruthless. ”

Du Lengqiu smiled, he shook his head, but he didn't explain, "Cultivators are ruthless, and they really can't be distracted on the way to practice. And once the path of immortality is achieved, the cultivator can be free from heaven and earth, whether affectionate or ruthless, it depends on personal choice. ”

For these things, the cultivator can only experience them for himself, not someone to tell them.

Looking at Baiyun going north, like a strong wind sweeping, Qi Xiaoxian couldn't help but ask, "Master, where are we going next?"

Du Lengqiu said: "Oceania." ”

As he spoke, he shook his head and said, "Speaking of which, I didn't want to see Oceania in my heart. There is really nothing to see about the country founded by those criminals, but after all, Oceania has millions of square kilometers of land and a population of more than 20 million. ”

Qi Xiaoxian said: "Oceania, Australia, I have been there a few times, and the scenery is very good. ”

Du Lengqiu said with a slight mockery: "There is no point in looking at the flowers. Do you know Australia's past and present, do you know its national policy, and do you know the bloody past between the entire Australian Aboriginal and the colonizers?"

Qi Xiaoxian was silent.

Oceania.

The English name of Oceania is Oceania, which means "land surrounded by the ocean", where "Ocean" means "sea" and the suffix -ia means land. The name appeared in 1812 and was coined by the Danish geographer Malte-Brun.

Oceania spans the northern and southern hemispheres, from 47° south latitude to 30° north latitude, across the eastern and western hemispheres, from 110° east longitude to 160° west longitude, with a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers from east to west and more than 8,000 kilometers from north to south.

It is made up of a continent and numerous islands scattered across the vast sea, including Australia, New Zealand, and the island of New Guinea (Irian Island), as well as the three major island groups of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

Spanning seven continents, Oceania is the smallest in the world.

It is made up of the Australian mainland and more than 10,000 islands of varying sizes, the largest number of islands of any continent. The island area accounts for 13.8% of the total area of the continent, which is the second highest proportion in the world after North America.

Oceania is not only a large number of islands, but also a wide range of types. According to its genesis, it can be divided into four types: continental, volcanic, coral and mixed. Combined with the morphological subdivision, the volcanic type can be divided into Hawaiian type and Vesuvius type, and the coral type can be divided into three forms: platform reef, atoll and skirt (barrier) reef.

The barrier reefs in Oceania are not only numerous, but also stunningly beautiful.

For example, the Great Barrier Reef recruited workers around the world in the 2018s, and it made a wave of advertising for itself. At that time, Australia's tourism revenue was not very prosperous, so the sword went off the rails and brushed a wave of presence for itself.

Du Lengqiu remembered that he was in high school at the time, but he had also seen this kind of news in various media.

Oceania is a low-fear continent, generally below 600 meters, except for some mountains where the altitude is more than 2000 meters. It's the opposite of Africa.

In the whole continent, the plains below 200 meters above sea level account for about 13,200-600 meters of the whole continent, and the hills and platforms account for more than 12 of the whole continent.

It can be said that Oceania is a low-lying continent in the world.

In the whole of Oceania, the highest point of the terrain is in the central and western parts of the Australian continent, where the area is vast, the climate is arid, the vegetation is scarce, the wind is strong, and the surface is widely distributed with wind erosion and aeolian landforms.

In the Western Desert and the central area of Eyre Lake, there are many sand dunes, sand ridges and saucer formations formed by aeolian accumulation. Wind erosion sandstone columns and typical Yadan topography can be seen near the McDonnell Ranges.

The formation of islands in Oceania is mostly related to volcanism, and the base of coral islands and atolls is also composed of volcanic materials, so volcanic landforms are widely distributed and diverse. For example, New Zealand has a group of volcanic craters and lava bend hills, and Hawaii and Polynesia have large shield-shaped volcanic landforms with small slopes.

The geomorphological structure of Oceania has five distinct geomorphic units from west to east: the erosion plateau in the western part of the continent (Western Australian Plateau), the subsidence plain in the central part of the continent (Central Australian Plain), the fault block mountains in the eastern part of the continent (Dongao Mountains), the new folded island arc on the eastern side of the continent (continental islands), and the volcanic-coral island group further east (oceanic islands).

When Du Lengqiu and Qi Xiaoxian arrived in Oceania, the entire sea area was vast and boundless, and there was no land except for the Western Australian Plateau in Australia.

The Western Australian Plateau was originally the birthplace of the Aboriginal people of Australia.

50,000 years ago, humans began to travel from the southeastern islands of Eurasia across land bridges and shoals to Australia and nearby islands.

By 1,500 years ago, the indigenous civilization of mainland Australia and the three archipelago cultural circles of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia were roughly formed.

About 50,000 years ago, primitive people from Eurasia came to Australia along the Indonesian archipelago, and the world's earliest polished stone tools found by archaeologists were artificially edged stone axes found in New Guinea more than 20,000 years ago.

Around 6,000 years ago, Australia's indigenous people domesticated wild dogs, which have developed economic, political and religious habits that continue to this day.

It's just that with the change of climate, the original Western Australian plateau has become a Gobi-like zone, which is no longer suitable for habitation, so it has to migrate to the eastern region.

When Du Lengqiu flew to the Western Australian Plateau, it was no longer in the form of the Gobi, and the advent of the water element world made the water and grass here abundant, returning to the appearance of 50,000 years ago.

However, the world is no longer the same world.

Australia's agriculture has not been doing well, and it has lost its original eastern plains. Australia's tens of millions of people crammed into the Western Australian Highlands immediately staged all the inevitable scenes of food shortages.

The reason for this is that the Western Australian Plateau has not been developed before, and it is not suitable for farming, and the Australian government has completely collapsed by this time.

Without unified dominance, this place has become a hell on earth.

In the foreseeable future, Oceania will eventually become a barren land. Du Lengqiu came to such a conclusion. And Qi Xiaoxian, who was carried by Du Lengqiu, wanted to vomit disgustingly, but he couldn't vomit.