Australia Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 42,855 km total (1980); 9,689 km 1.600-meter gauge, 15.783 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 17,383 km 1.067-meter gauge; 900 km electrified (June 1979); government owned (except for a few hundred kilometers of privately owned track)

Highways. 837,872 km total (1980); 243,750 km paved, 228,396 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized soil surface, 365,726 km unimproved earth

Inland waterways: 8,368 km; mainly by small, shallow-draft craft

Pipelines: crude oil, 2,400 km; refined products, 500 km; natural gas, 5,600 km

Ports: 12 major, numerous minor

Civil air: around 150 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 1 052 total, 1,009 usable; 221 with permanent-surface runways, 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 18 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 498 with runways 1,2202 439 m

Telecommunications: very good international and domestic service; 7.4 million telephones (52 per 100 popl.); 223 AM, 5 FM, and 111 TV stations; 3 earth satellite stations; submarine cables to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Guam

NOTE: The information regarding Australia on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Australia 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Australia 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.