Can you tell me ten interesting facts about Austrailia?

Answer 1

Australia is the smallest of the world's seven continents
Australia is the largest island in the world
Australia's christmas holiday comes in the middle of the summer
Australia is the only country which occupies an entire continents
Australia's population lives mostly in the large coastal cities
Australia's climate is hot in the north and moderate in the south
Australia is the driest continent;is the second largest desert area in the world
Australian law impoes fines on pepole who do not vote and do not wear seat beats
Australian students wear school uniforms
Australia has nine sheep for every one person

Answer 2

Yeah, I'm part Australian, and went there last year! There trees are mostly gum tress, the Great Barrier Rief is off the coast and it is the largest reef in the world (good for scuba diving) and the Blue Mountains are a huge tourist attraction, especially "The Three Sisters." Their second language is Japanese and students learn it in school. High school starts in grade seven. The Opera House and bridge is in Sydney, which has a population of 6 million (the capital) Another large city is Melbourne, by the South Coast. Cricket is a huge sport and plays on TV often. Kangaroos are everywhere, and you usually see roadkill on the side of the road :( They usually come out around dusk when the sun is just going down. You can see so many stars there, and they're so bright, it's the best place in the world to view them because you can see so many and there isn't a big halo effect. The plane ride there was 22 hours but the ride back was only seventeen because of the wind currents :) Surfing is also pretty big, as is boogyboarding. There is a lot of bluebottles, which are jellyfish-like stinging things. It's pretty beautiful :) Hope I helped!

Answer 3

1 Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands.

2 The highest point on the mainland, Mount Kosciuszko.

3 Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth.

4 The Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories.

5 Australia is the sixth largest nation after Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America and Brazil. It has, however, a relatively small population.

6 Its interior has one of the lowest rainfalls in the world and about three-quarters of the land is arid or semi-arid.

7 Apart from Antarctica, Australia is the driest continent.

8 Australia is an independent Western democracy.

9 Australia is the world's smallest continent but sixth-largest country.

10 Australia Day, 26 January

Answer 4

1)You can see Ayers Rock (Uluru) from space.
2) Perth is known as the isolated city...as it nearer to Singapore than Sydney!
3) Queensland is home to the late Steve Irwin's zoo
4) The blue mountains get that name because of the blue haze that comes off the trees...Eucalyptus oil.
5) Home to the koala bear and kangaroo
6) seeing sunset at Uluru is one of the most spiritual experiences ever.
7) It takes 90 minutes to get to the outer barrier reef from Port Douglas by fast catamaran.
8) The Gold coast has a theme park called dreamworld which is fantastic.
9) Sydney Tower (centre-point) has a postbox that is the highest postbox in the southern hemisphere.
10) Australia has some of the finest beaches in the world.

Answer 5

1.Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent and is the sixth-largest country in the world in land area.
2.Although English is the official language in Australia, more than 4.1 million Australians speak a second language
3.Australia is one of the world’s oldest landmasses and has been populated for an estimated 60 000 years.
4.Australia’s contemporary history is relatively short, with the first European settlement established by England on 26 January 1788.
5.Each year Australia welcomes an increasing number of international students; current figures rate Australia third among English-speaking countries as a destination for these students.
6.The Australian flag was raised for the first time in Melbourne on 3 September 19017.Green and gold have been Australia’s national colours since 19 April 1984.
8.Australia Day is celebrated every year on 26 January. (This date commemorates the anniversary of the unfurling of the British flag at Sydney Cove in 1788.)
9.
Australia has three time zones:
East: GMT + 10
Central: GMT + 9.5
West: GMT + 8
10.A great number of Australia’s native plants, animals and birds exist nowhere else in the world.

Answer 6

1. Koalas
2. Ayer's Rock
3. Kangaroos,
4. boomerangs,
5. the Outback,
6. walkabouts,
7. Sydney Ampitheatre,
8. Setting for Nemo,
9. No there actually DRINKS Foster's,
10. The site where criminals were sent

Answer 7

Australia has the best beaches in the world
it has some of the deadliest snakes in the world
it does not allow alchohol on the aborigina resevations
you must vote in every election
their politcians are answerable to the people unlike Uk
they are very family orintated
they have great shopping malls
they are still a very young country that is changing all the time

Answer 8

You don`t have to have a criminal record to move there where once is was a necessity. Billy Connely once visited Newzealand next door.Chubby brown once saw a kangeroo there and thought it was an alsatian having a s**t. They do great insurance for women "sheela`s wheels".It`s full of English who couldn`t make it in Britain. they don`t play soaps on the tele all the time ;ie nieghbours, like they do in England.The native people walk about with their nuts out trying to pull rich western women. Rex Hunt lives there,Yibada Yibada folks I`m rex and your not.They where the fist country to sucsesfuly clone humans ,Kylie and Dannie Manogue. And finally it`s at the other side of the world to UK thank F**k.

Answer 9

Reputed to have the best fish restaurant in the World called Doyles. Nr Sydney. IT has camels which were shipped there to help transportation in the exploration of the outback Australia has the lowest precipitation of any of the world's inhabited continents. (Antarctica gets less.) 70 percent of Australia gets less than 500 mm (20 inches) of rainfall per year. that's 3

Answer 10

Australian History

These are selected sites for researching Australian history on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They provide a diverse range of information on Australian history resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.

http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html

http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/sose/austhist/default.htm

http://www.australianexplorer.com/australian_history.htm

http://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/history.html

Many of the timelines below span several centuries and do not fit neatly into the

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/history/australian.html