The pleura is a thin membrane that lines the surface of the lungs and the inside of the chest wall outside the lungs. In pleural effusions, fluid builds up in the space between the layers of pleura.
Major Landform regions of Australia See also. The Australian continent is broadly divided into 4 major landform regions, each of which is comprised of smaller-scale constituent landform regions-eastern highlands, central lowlands, western plateau and the coastal plains.he lowest point on the Australian continent, Lake Eyre, is also situated in this region. It also includes inselbergs such as Uluru and Kata Tjuta. About 38 % of the Australian continent is less than 200 m above sea level (so far), much of it in the Central lowlands.
Australia's land mass. Australia comprises a land area of about 7.692 million square kilometres. Although this is just five per cent of the world's land mass (149.45 million square kilometres), Australia is the planet's sixth largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America and Brazil.ustralia is the smallest of the world's continents. It is also the lowest, the flattest and (apart from Antarctica) the driest. The highest point on the Australian mainland is Mount Kosciuszko, New South Wales, at 2228 metres above sea level.