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प्रश्न
Give reasons for the following:
There is heavy rainfall in Queensland but the Atacama desert is arid.
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उत्तर
Queensland’s coast is touched by the warm East Australian current and gets heavy rainfall by trade winds from the sea towards land, but Atacama desert is touched by cold Peruvian current and the westerlies blowing from land towards sea make the Atacama the cold driest desert in the world.
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