Australia and Oceania Physical Map
A free printable physical map of Australia and Oceania, with elevation shown in color and shaded relief. The labeled version names the mountain ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, seas and highest peaks. The blank version leaves them off for students to fill in.
Highest Point
Puncak Jaya, New Guinea
16,024 ft
Lowest Point
Lake Eyre, Australia
about 49 ft below sea level
Choose your version
Labeled or blank.
Both are free PDFs sized for US Letter paper.
Labeled
Ranges, deserts, plains, rivers, lakes, seas and the highest peaks, all named. Use it as a reference or an answer key.
downloadLabeled PDF
Blank
The same terrain with no names and a name line at the top, for students to label the features themselves.
downloadBlank PDFThe physical geography of Australia and Oceania
Australia is the flattest continent and, apart from Antarctica, the driest. The Great Dividing Range runs down the east coast and includes Mt. Kosciuszko, the highest point on the Australian mainland. West of the range are the central lowlands and the Great Artesian Basin, then a broad western plateau covered largely by desert. New Guinea, to the north, has high mountains including Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Oceania. New Zealand’s South Island has the Southern Alps, and thousands of smaller islands are scattered across the Pacific.
Major rivers
- Murray
- Darling
- Murrumbidgee
- Sepik
- Fly
Find it on the map
- The Great Dividing Range along the east coast
- The mountainous spine of New Guinea
- New Zealand’s two main islands
Built from real data, not stock images.
The terrain is drawn from a global elevation model (Mapzen terrain tiles, built from NASA SRTM and other public surveys). Coastlines, rivers, lakes and feature names come from Natural Earth. All eight of our US, continent and world physical maps use the same elevation colors, so they can be compared with each other.
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