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Southwest Australia
Southwest Australia
is a
biodiversity hotspot
that includes the
Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub
ecoregions
of
Western Australia
. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer
Mediterranean climate
, one of five such regions in the world. The region covers 356,717 km², consisting of a broad coastal plain 20-120 kilometres wide, transitioning to gently undulating uplands made up of weathered
granite
,
gneiss
and
laterite
.
Desert and xeric shrubland
s lie to the north and east across the centre of Australia, separating Southwest Australia from the other Mediterranean and humid-climate regions of the continent.
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