Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin is the world's largest basin, taking about one fifth of the land area of Australia. Once a large inland sea, now all that water is underground, and the only source to why many outback towns exist in NSW, Queensland, SA and the NT.Photo: Kdliss, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Plain
- Description: large Artesian aquifer in Australia
- Also known as: “Artesian Basin” and “Great Australian Basin”
Great Artesian Basin
- Categories: structural basin and landform
- Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Great Artesian Basin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحوض الارتوازي الكبير”
- Arabic: “حوض ارتوازي كبير”
- Basque: “Artesiar Arro Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі Артэзіянскі басейн”
- Bulgarian: “Голям артезиански басейн”
- Catalan: “Gran Conca Artesiana”
- Cebuano: “Great Artesian Basin”
- Chinese: “大自流盆地”
- Czech: “Velká artéská pánev”
- Dutch: “Groot Artesisch Bekken”
- Finnish: “Iso arteesinen allas”
- French: “Grand bassin artésien”
- Georgian: “დიდი არტეზიული აუზი”
- German: “Großes Artesisches Becken”
- Hebrew: “האגן הארטזי הגדול”
- Hindi: “ग्रेट आर्टेसियन बेसिन”
- Hungarian: “Nagy-Artézi-medence”
- Italian: “Grande Bacino Artesiano”
- Japanese: “グレートアーテジアン盆地”
- Kazakh: “Үлкен артезиан алабы”
- Korean: “그레이트아테시안 분지”
- Korean: “대찬정 분지”
- Latvian: “Lielais Artēziskais baseins”
- Lithuanian: “Didysis Artezinis baseinas”
- Persian: “حوضه آرتزین بزرگ”
- Polish: “Wielki Basen Artezyjski”
- Russian: “Большой Артезианский бассейн”
- Serbian: “Велики артешки басен”
- Slovak: “Veľká artézska panva”
- Slovenian: “Veliki arteški bazen”
- Spanish: “Gran Cuenca Artesiana”
- Swedish: “Great Artesian Basin”
- Turkish: “Büyük Artezyen Havzası”
- Ukrainian: “Великий артезіанський басейн”
- Uzbek: “Katga artezian havzasi”
- Uzbek: “Katga Artezian Havzasi”
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