km;
oil 4,773 km; oil/gas/water 110 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Brisbane, Dampier, Fremantle, Gladstone, Hay Point, Melbourne,
Newcastle, Port Hedland, Port Kembla, Port Walcott, Sydney

Merchant marine:
total: 55 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,531,461 GRT/1,999,409 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 16, cargo 7, chemical tanker 3, container 1,
liquefied gas 4, passenger 5, passenger/cargo 6, petroleum tanker 8,
roll on/roll off 5
foreign-owned: 16 (France 1, Germany 3, Japan 1, Philippines 1,
Saudi Arabia 1, United Kingdom 2, United States 7)
registered in other countries: 35 (2005)

Airports:
448 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 305
over 3,047 m: 10
2,438 to 3,047 m: 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 131
914 to 1,523 m: 139
under 914 m: 13 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 143
1,524 to 2,437 m: 17
914 to 1,523 m: 112
under 914 m: 14 (2004 est.)

Military Australia

Military branches:
Australian Defense Force (ADF): Australian Army, Royal Australian
Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, Special Operations Command

Military service age and obligation:
16 years of age for voluntary service (2001)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 4,943,676 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 4,092,717 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 142,158 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$16.65 billion (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.7% (2004)

Transnational Issues Australia

Disputes - international:
East Timor and Australia continue to meet but disagree over how to
delimit a permanent maritime boundary and share unexploited
petroleum resources that fall outside the Joint Petroleum
Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty; East Timor
dispute hampers creation of a revised maritime boundary with
Indonesia (see also Ashmore and Cartier Islands dispute); regional
states express concern over Australia's 2004 declaration of a
1,000-nautical mile-wide maritime indentification zone; Australia
asserts land and maritime claims to Antarctica (see Antarctica); in
2004 Australia submitted claims to UNCLOS to extend its continental
margin from both its mainland and Antarctic claims

Illicit drugs:
Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate
products; government maintains str