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© María García Herrero
THE WONDER
DOWN UNDER
AUSTRALIA

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Click here for an intro to Australia

AUSTRALIA

THE WONDER DOWN UNDER

© María García Herrero

If you wanna see how Australian world maps are made, click here

A bit of Geography.....

Australia is the biggest island and the 6th biggest country in the world! Also it's one of the 14 countries in Oceania.

During Prehistory, Australia and Papua New Guinea were linked together and therefore evolving at the same pace, until around 10,000 years ago, when the level of the sea raised and separated them.

Do you know Australia's flag? Click here

Do you know Australia and its people's nicknames? Click here to know!

SOME FACTS...

The capital city is CANBERRA, but Sydney is the most populated city.

"OZ is the popular name for Australia and "Aussie" is the way Australian people are commonly known.

If you want to see an animated map of Australian colonies evolved throughout the time, click here. Moreover, NZ was part of NSW until the XIXth century.

AND A BIT OF HISTORY....

Between 1788 and 1868, about 162,000 convicts were transported by the British government to various penal colonies in Australia, like Port Arthur Penitentiary, in Tasmania. Incredibly, today it has one of the lowest crime rates in the world!

Although some Spanish and Portuguese sailors had already spotted Australia, they kept it secret, thinking it was another smaill island. Captain James Cook was the first one to set foot on it, officially discovering Australia in the XVIIIth century and soon after it the British established a penal colony over there.

ABORIGINAL PEOPLE

In the XVIIIth Century the first colonists arrived, they were ships full of prisoners..... and with them chickenpox, smallpox, measles, influenza, tuberculosis... and, in the XIXth Century, also tobacco, alcohol and opium. All that, together with the violence towards them and the robbery of their land almost ended with them.

Nowadays, some laws have given some territories back to them, but the effects of what they did to them are still devastating

Aboriginal art

Aboriginal music

Aboriginal sport

The Aboriginals believe that the entire world was made by their Ancestors way back in the very beginning of time, the DREAMTIME. The Ancestors made everything: The Aboriginal people, the rocks, mountains, rivers, creeks, waterholes, plants and animals.

They believe that every person essentially exists eternally in the "Dreaming". This eternal part existed before the life of the individual begins, and continues to exist when the life of the individual ends

Didgeridoo

Do you know how a didgeridoo sounds? Click here to find out:

Do you know how to use a boomerang???

POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATION

Moreover, 6 external territories, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Christmas Island, Keeling Islands, Coral Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island and a big part of Anctartica (42%) are external Aussie territories. Click here to see Christmas Island:

Australia is part of the Commonwealth, so Charles II of England is their King.

Then, every state and territory is ruled by a governor

Australia is divided into 6 states + 2 territories

Click here to see their coat of arms

And here to see their pretty coins

ONLY IN AUSTRALIA....

SIGNS YOU WILL ONLY SEE THERE!

AND THINGS YOU WILL ONLY SEE IN OZ!

Or eatingVegemite

From insults and pick up lines to extremely Aussie slang, many of the place names are sure to shock

Fancy living in a place called Lovely Bottom or The Boobs? They may sound made up but these are just some of the places in Australia that actually exist.

So don't you believe it?

Very weird laws....

You cannot dress up as Robin or Batman

Wearing hot pink pants is illegal after midday on a Sunday

Walking on the right hand side of the road in Australia is illegal, even if you are walking on a footpath

Bars are supposed to have a stable, water and they should feed the horses that come with patrons

Aussies love going on barefoot

YO. Essentially, this means you can bring in your own bottle of wine for a couple of quid.

Australians will call everyone mate, whether they know them or not. Do not, however, assume that being called "mate" means they like you. There is key nuance in how long the letter 'a' is stretched out for. If it's a "maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate" rolling on for seemingly eons, they love you. If it's a short, sharp "mate", they might be about to punch you.

The classic Aussie greeting: "G’day, mate!"

Click here to know more about the Australian accent...

Any idea of what "a barbie" for an Aussie is....?

Here you are a clue...

Not yet...?

BYO (Also BYOB)

And you just pay for the corkage, which is between 3 and 5 dollars per person.

Angus Young Famous As: Co-Founder & Lead Guitarist Of The Hard Rock Band, AC/DC

Kylie Minogue, singer and songwriter

Paul Hogan, "Crocodile Dundee", actor

He was a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the 70s

Some famous Aussies

Nicole Kidman, actress

Lots of Australian animals are just amazing, unique on Earth... Just keep your eyes wide open...

Click here to see a video on Australian wildlife

PLATYPUS

SNAKES

SHARKS

ECHIDNA

AUSTRALIAN DINGO

SUGARGLIDER

DUGONG

EMU

CASSOWARY

WOMBAT

BILBY

PADEMELON

KOOKABURRA

QUOKKA

NUMBAT

TASMANIAN DEVIL

THORNY DEVIL

BANDICOOT

WHALES

Freshwater crocodile, up to 3 metres long

Saltwater crocodiles, up to 6 metres long

WALLABY

Esto es un párrafo. Puedes escribir aquí lo que quieras.

RED KANGAROO

Click here to see a joey (young marsupial) coming out of his mum's pouch

KOALA BEAR

ONLY SOME EXAMPLES OF DEADLY ANIMALS (and its Danger Rating)

Blue-ringed Octopus 7/10

Cone Shell 7/10

Saltwater crocodile 8/10

Sydney Funnel Web Spider 8/10

DEADLY ANIMALS (and its Danger Rating)

Eastern Brown Snake 8/10

Irukandji Jellyfish 9/10

Box Jellyfish 10/10

Bull Shark 8/10

But magpies can get REALLY dangerous too! Watch this video to find out why.....

...And don't forget about plants, here are some of the weirdest plants in the world.

The golden wattle is Australia's national flower

The wattle flag represents unity, shared history, diversity and the beauty of this land

Eucaliptus trees are the most common trees and koala bears' food.

Bottlebrush

THE BURRAWANG

It's one of the most ancient plants on the planet. It needs fire to produce seeds!

CORIVAS FIMBRYATUS

This is a type or orchich

Baobad

They store 300 litres of water and live for 500 years!

In Oz you can do some unbelievable things, such as....

skydiving

Seeing a shart right in its eye...

See crocodiles REALLY close to you

And celebrating it on the beach!

Being among the first ones around the world to celebrate New Year

Aussies love water sports, especially swimming and surfing

Byron Bay is the top surfing place in Oz

Click here for some surfing

Now, we are seeing a little bit of every part of the country

PART 1: AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. Here is where the Government Headquarters, the Supreme Court or the Parliament are.

PART 2: VICTORIA

Most people live in Melbourne

AUSTRALIAN MOTO GP AT PHILIP ISLAND TRACK

FORMULA 1GP AT ALBERT PARK TRACK

Victorian Alps

The Great Ocean Road (244 kms) was built by soldiers to the soldiers killed during WWI. It's the biggest war memorial in the world.

The 12 Apostles- There are only 8 left, the 9th having collapsed in 2005

PART 3: TASMANIA

When the British arrived, in the XIXth century they exterminated all the natives during the Black War

Hobart, the capital city

The Tasmanian Devil

The Tasmanian Tiger, probably extinct nowadays

Wineglass Bay

Maria Island Painted Rocks

PART 4: SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Adelaide is the capital city

Great Australian Bight

Vineyards by the Wineries in Adelaide Plains and Barossa Valley

PART 5: WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Perth is the capital city

Ningaloo Reef

Whale Shark

Wave Rock

The Pinnacles Desert

Bungle Bungle Range

The Remarkable Rocks, on Kangaroo Island

PART 6: NORTHERN TERRITORY

Darwin is the Capital City

Almost 1/3 of the population is Aboriginal

Termite nest at Lichtfield National Park

Kakadu National Park

First, you must know the whole far, arid and inner part of Oz is called THE OUTBACK, basically, 2/3 of the country.

Alice Springs, right in the middle of nowhere...

Kings Canyon

The Olgas, Kata Tjuta

Ayers Rock, Uluru

PART 7: QUEENSLAND

Brisbane is the capital city

Pelicans at Hervey Bay

Tropical fruit

FRASER ISLAND is the only completely sandy island where a rainforest has grown in the world. Here you are Lake McKenzie

On Fraser Island, you can see a 70-miles-long beach which is used as an airport.

On FRASER ISLAND dogs are not allowed, so that the pure Australian dingos inhabiting the island are well-preserved.

BUt the best part is going further into the sea...and diving or snorkling in the GREAT CORAL REEF, the biggest living organism in teh world. It is 2,000 kms long!

Click here for further info about the Great Reef Barrier

Ready for the most beautiful beach you have ever seen????

Whitehaven Beach, on the Whitsundays

PART 8: NEW SOUTH WALES

Sydney is the biggest city and where 2/3 of Aussies live.

Bondi Beach, in Sydney, the mythical beach from "Point Break" ("Le Llaman Bodhi", in Spanish)

THe Opera House and Harbour Bridge by day....

....And The Opera House and Harbour Bridge by night

The Blue Mountains get their name from the bluish fog above them you can see from the distance

Lord Howe Island

AND PART 9: EXTERNAL TERRITORIES

They are made up entirely of islands and cover an area almost as large as Australia itself. They consist of innumerable small reefs, cays, and atolls between the Great Barrier Reef and several remote and diverse islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

EXTERNAL TERRITORY 1: CHRISTMAS ISLAND

The annual red crab migration (around 100 million animals) to the sea to spawn has been called one of the wonders of the natural world. It starts with the wet season and in synchronisation with the cycle of the Moon.

EXTERNAL TERRITORY 2: COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS

They are composed of 2 atolls with 27 islands. Only two of them are inhabited.

EXTERNAL TERRITORY 3: NORFOLK ISLAND

This small island has a volcanic origin.

EXTERNAL TERRITORY 4: HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLAND

Heard Island has Mawson volcano, which is the highest peak in Australia (2745 m. high). McDonald is tiny and small. They are both volcanic and ininhabited

EXTERNAL TERRITORY 5: ASHMORE AND CARTIER ISLANDS

They are small and uninhabited tropical islands

EXTERNAL TERRITORY 6: AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC TERRITORY

That is, a 42% of the whole Antarctica

But I think we'd rather stay on the Whitsundays, right?

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