Which of the following is not associated with Australia Continent ?
Salvin Valley
“Salvin Valley” is not an Australian feature — option 4.
| Feature | Where | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Lake Eyre | Australia | The continent’s largest lake and its lowest point, about 15 m below sea level, in South Australia; a salt pan that fills with water only in exceptional rains |
| Nullarbor Plain | Australia | A vast flat limestone plain on the southern coast; the name is Latin, nullus arbor, “no tree”. The world’s longest straight stretch of railway crosses it |
| Selwyn Range | Australia | Highlands of north-west Queensland, in the Mount Isa mineral belt; there are also Selwyn Mountains in Canada |
| “Salvin Valley” | Not an Australian feature | No valley of that name is recognised on the continent |
How to work through it. Two of the four are unmistakable: Lake Eyre and the Nullarbor Plain are among the first physical features of Australia any atlas shows. That leaves the two similar-sounding names, and only one of them can be the answer. The Selwyn Range is a genuine Australian upland, so the remaining option is the one with no Australian referent.
Other Australian features worth carrying : the Great Dividing Range along the east coast, with Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m, the highest point; the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef system; the Great Victoria and Great Sandy deserts; the Murray-Darling, the longest river system; and Uluru or Ayers Rock, the great sandstone monolith of the centre.
A note on the near-name. The Salween is a major river of South-East Asia, rising in Tibet and flowing through China and Myanmar to the Andaman Sea — entirely unconnected with Australia, and the source of the confusion the question exploits.
Hence, the answer is Salvin Valley.
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