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Australia

Tytuł. Australia. Australia. Prepared by Justyna Babiarz-Furmanek. Coat of arms of Australia. Capital - Canberra Largest city - Sydney. Canberra Sydney.

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Australia

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  1. Tytuł Australia

  2. Australia Prepared by Justyna Babiarz-Furmanek

  3. Coat of arms of Australia

  4. Capital - CanberraLargest city - Sydney Canberra Sydney

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

  6. FESTIVALS Australia Day 26 January Chinese New Year February Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show City Festivals all year round . Anzac Day 25 April Feast Festival November

  7. FAMOUS PEOPLE Nicole Kidman – actress, singer Mel Gibson – actor, director, screenwirter Kylie Minogue - singer Captain Cook Cate Blanchett - acterss

  8. TOURIST ATTRACTIONS Sydney is the largest and most populous city in Australia and offers a lot of interesting tourist locations. The most famous is Sydney opera house Perth 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.

  9. Tourist attractions Sydney Perth Tasmania Fraser Island Kakadu National Park Uluru

  10. Tourist attractions Jamison Valley Adelaide Kangaroo Island

  11. Climate of Australia The 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 May Winter: 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.

  12. MAP OF AUSTRALIA

  13. AUSTRALIA – largest cities Sydney Melbourne Brisbane Perth Adelaide Gold Coast Canberra, North Castle Wollongong Logan City

  14. 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.

  15. 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).

  16. 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 Europeanworkers 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.

  17. FAST FACTS Official Name: Commonwealth of Australia Form of Government: Federal parliamentary democracy Capital: Canberra Population: 20,683,554 Official Language: English Money: Australian dollar Area: 2,969,906 sq mi (7,692,024 sq km) Major Mountain Ranges: Great Dividing Range, Macdonnell Ranges Major Rivers: Murray-Darling, Murrumbidgee, Lachlan

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

  19. NATURE Australia 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 wallabieskoalas 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.

  20. National symbols Flag of Australia didgeridoo Floral emblem Acacia pycnantha Red kangaroo Emu Sydney Opera House

  21. National symbols Sydney Harbour Bridge Uluru possum opal Aboriginal Australians dingo boomerang koala

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