Statistics for Australian geography by letter: N

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Second largest city in NSW	Newcastle	95%
Australia has about a third of the world's reserves of this element, but large fluctuations in prices make mining a risky business	Nickel	70%
Marsupial that principally eats termites	Numbat	65%
Territory used as a penal colony in the 18th and 19th centuries	Norfolk Island	50%
No trees	Nullarbor	50%
Town, river, national park and region that made the Sunshine Coast a major tourist attraction	Noosa	45%
Long stretch of coastline in Gippsland	Ninety Mile Beach	30%
Provincial town for a pastoral region on the Gulf of Carpentaria	Normanton	25%
Sydney suburb mentioned in the Beach Boys song 'Surfin' USA'	Narrabeen	20%
Benedictine monastic town with a famous bakery	New Norcia	20%
World Heritage listed coast and reef	Ningaloo	20%
Provincial town in the West Australian wheatbelt	Northam	15%
Tasmanian town founded for the resettlement of people from the above penal colony, including many first fleeters	New Norfolk	10%