Statistics for Australian geography by letter: C

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City designed by American architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin	Canberra	98%
Tropic region south of the equator	Capricorn	80%
Tropical city close to the Great Barrier Reef	Cairns	78%
Northernmost point of continental Australia	Cape York	54%
This Australian territory is known for its offshore detention centre, and an annual migration of red land crabs	Christmas Island	49%
Gulf between Arnhem Land and the Cape York Peninsula	Carpentaria	44%
Underground town	Coober Pedy	42%
Inner Melbourne suburb famed for its much loved and much loathed football team	Collingwood	37%
Tropical town named after the first explorer to visit	Cooktown	36%
70% of the population of this Australian territory speak Malay at home	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	29%
Easternmost point of continental Australia	Cape Byron	24%
One end of the popular Overland Track bushwalking route in Tasmania	Cradle Mountain	10%
The highway (and partly freeway) that runs between Melbourne and Broken Hill	Calder	8%
Site in Launceston featuring a suspension bridge, a funicular railway, and the longest single-span chairlift in the world	Cataract Gorge	7%
The closest town to Sliding Spring Observatory, a centre for astronomic and astrophysics research	Coonabarabran	5%
National Park in Queensland featuring limestone caves, Aboriginal rock art and abandoned mine smelters	Chillagoe-Mungana Caves	3%
Large, heritage-listed strangler fig tree in the Atherton Tablelands	Curtin Fig Tree	2%