Australia

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Australia

Prepared by Justyna Babiarz-Furmanek

Coat of arms of Australia

Capital - CanberraLargest city - Sydney

Canberra Sydney

SPORTS Australian people are keen on sports such as: swimming, surfing, sailing, tennis, soccer (football) and rugby.

soccer

rugby tennis

sailing surfing golf

FESTIVALSAustralia Day26 January

Chinese New YearFebruary

Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

City Festivals all year round.

Feast FestivalNovember

Anzac Day 25 April

FAMOUS PEOPLE

Nicole Kidman – actress, singer

Captain Cook

Mel Gibson – actor, director, screenwirter

Kylie Minogue - singer Cate Blanchett

- acterss

TOURIST ATTRACTIONSSydney is the largest and most populous city in Australia and offers a lot of

interesting tourist locations. The most famous is Sydney opera housePerth is the city which offers a lot of attractions like sight-seeing, wildlife. You

can learn Aboriginal culture and dance.Tasmania is the place where you can go to take a break from the fast urban

life. It is very unique place for holiday, and the nature and wilderness are inseparable

Fraser Island is the world’s largest sand island. You can call it hidden natural treasure. There are a lot of endangered species of wild dogs, Dingos, and several types of fish found only in Australia.

Kakadu National Park is declared as one of the World Heritage sites in Australia.

Uluru is the largest monolith rock in the world and it is one of the greatest world natural wonders. Uluru looks wonderful at sunrise and sunset.

Kangaroo Island is a small and peaceful place. Here you can be close to wallabies, goannas, koalas, kangaroos, echidnas, dolphins, sea lions, penguins, fur seals, eagles, whales and ospreys.

Adelaide is one of the cities in the world which offers a lot of attractions. It is ideal place to get away, but in the same time offers interesting night life.

Jamison Valley is famous for its wonderful cable car tour. The Valley has a picturesque landscape that attracts thousands of local and foreign tourists a year.

Tourist attractionsSydney Perth Tasmania

UluruKakadu National Park

Fraser Island

Jamison Valley Adelaide

Kangaroo Island

Tourist attractions

Climate of AustraliaThe climate of Australia is various from place to place but in summer it's

basically hot everywhere.Australia is generally a dry continent.Australia is in the southern hemisphere so our seasons are opposite from

the northern hemisphere; this means that Christmas in Australia is in summer when it's hot.

Seasons in Australia are:Summer: December to February

Autumn: March to MayWinter: June to August

Spring: September to November

The weather in Australia can range from the below zero temperatures of the Snowy Mountains region to the extreme heat of the northwest.

Australia's north is in the tropcs. There are two seasons, the dry and the wet, and both have high temperatures around the year. The centre has desert climete, hot days and cold nights, which can be freezing in winter.

MAP OF AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA – largest citiesSydney

Melbourne

Brisbane

Perth

Adelaide

Gold Coast

Canberra,

North Castle

Wollongong

Logan City

BASIC INFORMATION Australia is the largest island in the world. It is also a

continent. It is one of the largest countries on Earth. Although it has many natural resources and a lot of fertile land, more than a third of Australia is desert.

The outback (remote rural areas) contains Australia's largest deserts, where there are high temperatures, little water, and almost no vegetation.

Australian states

There are six states in Australia: New South Wales (NSW),

Queensland (Qld),

South Australia (SA),

Tasmania (Tas.),

Victoria (Vic.) and

Western Australia (WA).

Australia – a multi-cultural country Australia is a multi-cultural country. 250 years ago it was not

the English-speaking country it is today. The people who lived there were Aborigenes who arrived in Australia over 50,000 years ago. There are only about 400,000 Aborigenes today in a population of just 20 million.

The English arrived at the end of the 18th century. At first, Britain sent prisoners to Australia, beacuse the prisons were full in Britain. Then other people went too. These were mostly farmers. Then after 1850, people went there to look for gold. In the 20th century Australia needed people with skills, and in the 1960s a lot of European workers went there. After that many Asians went to live in Australia.

Today most Australians live in big cities like Sydney, and Melbourne on the coast.

Australia is one of the dries areas in the world, not many people live far away from the coast.

FAST FACTSOfficial Name: Commonwealth of AustraliaForm of Government: Federal parliamentary

democracyCapital: CanberraPopulation: 20,683,554Official Language: EnglishMoney: Australian dollarArea: 2,969,906 sq mi (7,692,024 sq km)Major Mountain Ranges: Great Dividing Range,

Macdonnell RangesMajor Rivers: Murray-Darling, Murrumbidgee,

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GOVERNMENT

As a commonwealth of the United Kingdom, Australia's head of state is the British monarch.

NATUREAustralia has some of the most unusual animals in the world. It is

one of the only places in the world today where animals carry their babies inside body pouches. These animals include kangaroos, wombats, wallabies and koalas.

Kangaroos wombats wallabies koalas Aus tralia has 516 national parks.

One of Australia's most amazing sites is called Uluru, and it is a sacred natural formation at the heart of the country. It is 335 meters tall, it is the largest rock in the world!

There are a lot of rare species of animals on the planet. There are 36 species of poisonous funnel-web spiders in eastern Australia. There are also 20 types of poisonous snakes like the taipan

There are several types of rain forests in Australia.

National symbols

Flag of Australia didgeridoo Floral emblem

Sydney Opera House

EmuRed kangaroo

Acacia pycnantha

National symbols

boomerang dingo koalaAboriginalAustralians

Uluru possumopal

Sydney Harbour Bridge