Australia is a very multicultural country. It is formed by descendants of British and Aboriginals and immigrants from many European countries, Africa and Asia. Everyone who visits Australia again with stories of encounters with dangerous animals, snakes, spiders and jellyfish or nice photos of animals such as kangaroos and koalas, although the latter are not easy to see.
Things you might not know about this gigantic country:
1) It is estimated that Australian Aborigines have lived there for more than 40,000 years ago.
2) The first Europeans who lived in Australia were British prisoners. The country was a colony-prison in the UK from 1787-1868.
3) call the Australian British pommies as inicials POME were wearing the uniforms of the convicts. Meant Prisioners Of Mother England. *
4) One third of Australia is desert (mainly in the center).
5) Therefore, 90% of Australians live on the coast.
6) Australia is the sixth greatest country in the world.
7) And the only country that is also a continent even the smallest.
8) is the flattest addition with an average height of only 330 m continent. on sea level.
9) There are over 1500 spices of spiders.
10) More than 100 million sheep.
11) There are an estimated 40 million kangaroos, their meat is highly appreciated.
12) And only 20 million inhabitants.
13) Australia is the country with less population density, only 2 people per square kilometer.
14) The most dangerous jellyfish in the world is on the Australian coast (or box jellyfish Box jellyfish).
15) is also one of the most dangerous spiders (funnel-web spider). Its venom can kill a person in less than 2 hours. The only mammals that are not immune to their venom are humans and monkeys.
16) 20 of the most dangerous snakes in the world live in Australia.
17) The Dutch came to Australia in 1644 (Abel Tasman) and called it New Netherland. Until the late nineteenth century, the Dutch continued to use this name.
18) The Australian Aborigines are only 2% of the population.
19) Koalas are nocturnal and spend 16 to 18 hours a day sleeping.
20) The word kangaroo comes from gangurru which means "do not understand" in an Aboriginal language. It is said that the answer was gangurru the natives gave the explorers James Cook when they asked for the name of the animal.
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