Study abroad and earn 15 GRCC credits in sunny Melbourne, Australia, and Auckland, New Zealand.

Melbourne
     Melbourne is situated in southeastern Australia. It is one of the great livable cities of the world, noted for its diversity, vitality, and sophistication, a center for arts and culture with ready access to the wonders of Australia’s natural history. This makes Melbourne a cosmopolitan, harmonious and dynamic city in which to live and study and Newman College is in an ideal location to enjoy all the activities that the city presents.

Australia: Land
     Australia consists of two land masses: mainland Australia and Tasmania. It lies on and extends south from the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Indian Ocean to the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Southern Ocean to the south. New Zealand is 1920 kilometres (1200 miles) east, and Antartica is 2000 kilometres (1250 miles) due south.

     The area of Australia is 7,682,300 square kilometres (4,801,438 square miles). Australia is about the size of the mainland United States, excluding Alaska, and approximately 24 times the size of the British Isles.

Australia: Climate
     Australia is considered to be one of the driest continents on earth. However, because of its insular position and lack of natural features such as high mountain ranges, there are generally no great extremes of climate. Climate varies because of the size of the continent. The temperature ranges from 23-26°C above the Tropic of Capricorn to 38°C in the arid plateus and deserts of the interior.

Commonwealth of Nations
     Like New Zealand, Australia is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, a worldwide associaton of nations which recognise, or did recognise, the British monarch as its head.