Interesting Facts About Australia
Australia is the smallest, driest and most isolated continent on Earth. It is the world's sixth largest country and as big as all of Europe but has a tiny population of just 21 million.? The vast majority of the country is inhospitable and for the most part uninhabitable.?
Australia has it all, rainforests, beautiful beaches, deserts, forests, mountains and its citizens enjoy one of the highest living standards in the world.? It is also a country rich in endemic flora and fauna such as the kangaroo, koala, and eucalyptus tree. Australia is a multicultural nation as a result of millions of immigrants arriving over two centuries.?Each culture has made a significant contribution to Australian life.? Through this we are spoilt with an excellent choice of food, a functioning democracy and justice system and a healthy respect for one another.?
Much of the above is widely known around the world.? However, there are many other facts about our country which are unknown to most people, including to many Australians. Read on for a list of interesting and little known facts about Australia.
- Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels and exports them?to? Arabia
- Australian citizenship did not?exist in law until 1949. Prior to that anyone born in Australia was a British subject and?had a British passport??????????
- Australians read more magazines per capita than any other nation
- The black box flight recorder was invented in Australia in 1958
- The Sydney Funnelweb spider is one of the world's deadliest. camiseta selección española 2012 It's fangs can penetrate through gloves and fingernails and can kill a human in less than 2 hours.? There has not been a fatality since anti-venom was introduced in 1981
- The world's first feature length narrative film was? the Australian production The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906
- The five biggest sources of immigrants to Australia are the United Kingdom,? New Zealand,? India, China and the Phillipines - in that order
- There are over 200 languages spoken in Australian homes; the most common after English being Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic and Mandarin
- 70% of households own their own home
- The Dual-flush toilet system was invented in Australia in 1980
- The Australian Alps are camiseta barcelona commonly known as the Snowy Mountains and receive more snowfall annually than the Swiss Alps
- There are over 1500 species of Australian spiders
- The Australian Coat of Arms features the Kangaroo and Emu. These Australian animals are unique in that they are incapable camiseta selección española eurocopa 2012 of walking backwards
- Australia's island state Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world
- The Saltwater Crocodile found in far northern Australia is the world's largest reptile and can grow to over 6m in length
- Australia produces 95 per cent of the world's precious opals
- In 1926,? New South Wales became the first government in the world to pay pensions to women
- Eucalyptus was first used as a medicine by Aborigines to treat coughs, fever and asthma
- Australia is the only continent without an active volcano
- Koalas are nocturnal and spend between 16-18 hours a day sleeping
- The wine cask was invented in Australia by Angoves Wines in 1965
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