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TIL: The great Artesian Basin Australia's largest groundwater basin, laying beneath parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales it spans almost 1.7 million km² (650,000 mi²) and contains around 65 million Gigalitres (17 quadrillion gallons) of ground water.

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