1. 1/3 of the
world's coffee is grown in Australia!
Australia produces over 60% of the world's
coffee beans. It is the largest producer of coffee in the world, producing
around 12 billion pounds of coffee each year. That’s enough to fill Sydney
Harbour 38 times!
2. Australia has the greatest variety of birds
than any other country in the world.
There are over 6,000 species of bird in
Australia, making it home to some of the rarest birds on Earth. There are over
500 different types of birds in Australia alone.
3. Australia was once covered entirely in
forest.
Before humans arrived, Australia was covered
in lush rainforest. Around 80 percent of Australia still remains untouched.
Unfortunately, much of the original vegetation has been replaced by farms and
towns.
4. Kangaroos were introduced to Australia by
accident.
In 1770, Captain Cook brought Kangaroos back
to England after he discovered them on his voyage across the Pacific Ocean. He
mistakenly believed they were actually rabbits and released them into England.
Kangaroos don't belong in Europe or Asia; their habitat is Australia.
5. Koalas are not marsupials.
Koalas bear no resemblance at all to
kangaroos. Despite what you might have heard, koalas are actually monotremes,
meaning they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
6. The word “yabbie” comes from an Aboriginal
language.
Yabba Dabba Doo! Yabba Dabba Doo!! Yabba Dabba
Dooooooo!!! If you speak Australian, you say yabbies. Aborigines pronounced it
yabb-ee. And yes, that’s how the English language got the word ‘yummy’.
7. The Great Barrier Reef is the biggest coral
reef in the world.
The Great Barrier Reef is the size of Mexico
and spans the waters off the coast of Queensland. It’s massive. So massive, in
fact, that it’s considered the eighth wonder of the natural world. The Great
Barrier Reef looks something like a palm tree standing on end and stretches for
more than 1000 miles.
Australia seems to have the world's
sixth-largest land area.
1. Australia is
the largest island nation located in the Southern Hemisphere, stretching across
the top of the Indian Ocean along the equator. It is the smallest continent and
third-smallest sovereign state.
2. Australia covers about 2/3 of Antarctica,
making it the only major continental landmass situated entirely south of the
Antarctic Circle (the line of demarcation between the two hemispheres).
3. Its total area is approximately 1,904,680
square kilometers (724,900 sq mi), slightly smaller than India, and its
coastline measures.
4. Australia is the world's driest inhabited
continent; the average annual rainfall is just over, though some coastal
regions receive considerably more rain.
5. Australia is the world’s 13th-most populous
country (with a population of 25 million) and the world's 12th-most densely
populated country (with a population density of 6,935 people per km2).
6. Australia is home to the world's largest
monoliths, including Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
7. Australia is known for being the birthplace
of modern football, which was invented in 1858 by the Scottish immigrant Tom
Wills.
8. Australia is the only developed country to
have had a republic at various times, first proposed in 1949 and then adopted
in 1975.
9. Australia is the only country to have been
ruled by three different British monarchies: the United Kingdom, Canada, and
New Zealand.
10. Australia is the only G20 member that does
not use the US dollar as its currency.
11. In the 2016 census, Australia's median age
was 37.3 years old.
12. Australia is the only English-speaking
country where French is an official language.
13. Australia is the only industrialized
country without any nuclear weapons.
14. Australia is the only Western democracy to
never have been invaded by foreign armies.
Aboriginal
Australians have inhabited Australia for at least 40,000 years.
The first
European to sight Australia was Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral in
1526.
Australia has a
population of around 23 million people.
The Australian
Capital Territory has the world's largest population of Australian federal
government employees.
The Australian
economy is the sixth-largest in the world.
The Australian
currency is the Australian dollar.
The Australian
landscape is diverse, with a wide range of habitats including deserts, rain
forests, and snowfields.
Australian
animals include the kangaroo, the koala, the wallaby, and the platypus.
The Australian
landscape is also home to many endemic plants and animals, including the
wombat, the echidna, and the Tasmanian devil.
SUMMARY
Bird
World
1.
1/3 of
the world's coffee is grown in Australia!
2.
There
are over 6,000 species of bird in Australia, making it home to some of the
rarest birds on Earth.
3.
Before
humans arrived, Australia was covered in lush rainforest.
4.
Australia
is the only country to have been ruled by three different British monarchies:
the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand.
5.
In the
2016 census, Australia's median age was 37.3 years old.
6.
The
Australian Capital Territory has the world's largest population of Australian
federal government employees.
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