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i need 10 facts about australia and fast please and make them short?

i have to give 10 facts about australia for some paper. and its due today at 4

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1. Philip Parker King charted a lot of the coast of Australia and was a great navigator. Australia is HUGE - and has every season of the year in each day. Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the wonders of the world, as well as Uluru. There are 1100 sand dunes in the Simpson Desert (and I have been over them!) Australia has the most amazing wildflowers Australia has the most interesting animals, including the Kangaroo and Platypus. Australia has some of the best Surf in the world. Australians are lovely, friendly people :) Australians speak English, however we are starting to learn some indigenous languages now.
2. 1. Over 90% of Australia is dry, flat and arid. Almost three-quarters of the land cannot support agriculture in any form. 2. Emus and kangaroos cannot take a backward step, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. 3. Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump. 4. Australia has the world's largest cattle station (ranch). Anna Creek Station at 30,028 km2 it is almost the same size as Belgium. 5. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest organic construction on earth. 6. Lake Eyre is the world's largest salt-lake. 7. Mount Augustus is the largest monolith in the world. 8. The Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories. 9. Apart from Antarctica, Australia is the driest continent. 10. Our capital city is Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory.
3. 1. Australia was the third country in the world to launch a rocket into space (for the British). 2. Neither Emu or the Kangaroo which appear on Australia's coat of arms can walk backwards. 3.Tasmania is the one of the worlds major suppliers of legally grown opium based products. 4. Australia's sporting flag, the "boxing kangaroo", first appeared on planes flown by Australian pilots used to bomb Germany during world war II. 5. Australia has more beaches than any other country in the world (more than 10,000). 6. Australia produces 95% of the worlds precious opals. 7. Australia's highway 1 is the longest national highway in the world (about 24,000 kms) and passes through every capital city in Australia. 8. Aboriginal society is the oldest in the world (believed to be older than 50,000 years) and was the first to make primitive cutting tools from stone. 9. The great barrier reef is the worlds largest living thing. 10. About 80% of Australia's marine life is found nowhere else in the world.
4. 10 Facts About Australia 1. Australia located south of Indonesia. Its lies between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. 2. The name “Australia” is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning “of the South”. 3. Australia consists of 6 states, 2 major mainland territories, and other minor territories. 4. The population of Australia is 20.1 million people - that’s jast under the number of people who live in Texas! 5. The capital of Australia is Canberra. Sydney is the capital city of the State of New South Wales. 6. Australia is the Worlds Largest Exporter of Wool. There are around 120 million sheep in Australia. 7. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is the world’s largest (but not the longest) steel arch bridge. The top of the bridge standing 134 metres above the harbour. 8. The Sydney Opera House is one of the world’s best-known twentieth-century buildings, as well as one of the most famous performing arts theaters. 9. Koala Park Sanctuary, located in Sydney, is the world’s first and largest koala sanctuary, with over 130 koalas. 10. The boomerang was invented by Australian Aborigines.
5. -The first inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines, who migrated there at least 40,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. There may have been between a half million to a full million Aborigines at the time of European settlement; today about 350,000 live in Australia. -The population is 22.0 million, with approximately 60% concentrated in and around the mainland state capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide. -Australia is one of the famous tourist place in the world. -Australians are very friendly -Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump. -Australian capital city is Canberra . -Australia consists of 6 states, 2 major mainland territories, and other minor territories. -Australia has a very good climate during every season. -sydney is one of the famous tourist place in Australia. -sydney attractions include opera house tour, sydney harbour bridge climb, cruising, sydney aquarium, etc .
6. Well it looks like you now have 60 :) 1. Australian mines (one of our most important industries, which accounts for 15% of Australia's GDP) cover 0.02% of Australia's land mass. More land is occupied by pubs 2. In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia. 3. There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people. 4. Australia is the only country that is a continent. The mainland is the largest island and the smallest, flattest continent on Earth. 5. Australia, founded by convicts. The homicide rate is in Australia is 1.8 per 100,000 of population. The United States was founded by religious zealots. It's homicide rate is 6.3 per 100,000. Almost 400% greater than Australia. 6. The highest point on the mainland, Mount Kosciuszko, is only 2228 metres 7. The Australian federation consists of six States and two Territories. Most inland borders follow lines of longitude and latitude. The largest State, Western Australia, is about the same size as Western Europe. 8. Australia is the word’s smallest continent and the world’s sixth largest country. Australia covers an area of 7,686,900 square kilometres. That’s slightly smaller than the United States mainland which is 7,827,848 square kilometres (does not include Hawaii and Alaska). 9. The top grossing films ever in Australia are: 1. Titanic (In 1997) 2. Shrek 2 (2004) 3. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004) 4. Crocodile Dundee (1986) 5. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 10. The black box flight recorder for aircraft was invented in Australia in 1958 by the Aeronautical research scientist David Warren. 11. Australia is the only continent without an active volcano. 12. The longest fence in the world is located in Australia. It is 5530 km long and was erected to keep dingoes away from sheep. There is 12 there, most of them quite interesting PLEASE NOTE: None of these facts are intended to be racist or offend. If they do, I apologise.
7. 1...First white settlement in 1788 was as a penal colony of Great Britain 2.. Federation of the Colony into one country took place only a little over 100 years ago in 1901 3..We have sent soldiers to every major world conflict since & including the Boer War at the end of last century.. 4..We are among the top sporting nations of the world even though our population is only a little over 20 million. 5..Aussie scientists & inventors are at the cutting edge of world inventions & technology & have made many world first discoveries including penicillin , the cochlear ear implant , the black box recorder , the orbital engine .. 6..The Great Barrier Reef is the largest of its' kind in the world & stretches for over 1000 ks 7..Australia is the only island continent in the world .. 8..Australia holds claim to the largest area of Antarctica 9..Australia is home to the purist bloodlines of camels in the world....we export them to Saudi Arabia for racing ! 10..Moreton Island , just off the coast in south east Queensland has the highest sand dunes in the world ..