Interestingly Weird Facts about Australia

Interestingly Weird Facts about Australia -

I am currently in Australia. The country is under a place of extremes, with lush tropical jungle on a coast and barren desert on another. There are deadly spiders and snakes, but also cute koalas and kangaroos. They are some of the best coral in the world here, but also deadly jellyfish and sharks. It is an interesting country. How interesting? Well, here are I dug in Australia some interesting facts before I went .:

A third of Australia is desert

Australia has the lowest rainfall of the inhabited continents of the world

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There are 1500 species of Australian spiders.

Australia has more than 6,000 species of flies, about 4,000 species of ants, and over 350 species of termites.

Australia, the world's largest population of wild has single-hump camels.

There are more than 100 million sheep in Australia.

Australia has only 20 million people.

Australia has the largest cattle farm in the world. At 30,028 square kilometers, it is almost the size of Belgium.

0% of Australians live on a coast.

Australians from Queensland are called "Bananenbieger."

people of Western Australia are called "sand Groper."

people of New South Wales are called "cockroaches".

The Australian Alps or Snowy Mountains as they are also known to get more snow than Switzerland.

Melbourne is the second largest Greek population in the world.

more than 161,000 tons.

The Great Barrier Reef has weighs the roof of the Sydney Opera House Bio-construction is the largest on Earth.

Yulara, the Aboriginal name of Ayers Rock Resort, means "weeping." (. Which, given their history with whites, not surprisingly)

"Kangaroo" means: "I do not understand what you say," in an Aboriginal language.

Eric Bana Australian is.

So the guy who plays Jason Stackhouse in True Blood .

Australia has the lowest population density in the world two people per square kilometer.

Australia's coastline stretches almost 50,000 kilometers and has more than 10,000 beaches.

Australia is the only nation to govern an entire continent.

Australia 95% of precious opals and 99% of its black opals.

With 25.4 million heads in the world produced by cattle, Australia is the largest exporter of beef in the world.

There are an estimated 40 million kangaroos in Australia.

Kangaroo is delicious, it's just not for too long!

Scientists believe that the Aborigines have lived in Australia for more than 50,000 years.

no one is really sure how the Aborigines arrived in Australia, but it was probably about boats from Indonesia.

Aboriginal and western concepts of time are very different. For the Aborigines, "now" was simply always.

Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth. The only continent dryer is Antarctica.

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of English convicts.

Aborigines make up only 1.5% of the population.

There are no Tasmanian Full- blood Aborigines left.

There used to be legal and kill Aborigines to hunt.

Sydney is the largest city in Australia, with more than four million people, while only the capital Canberra has around 300,000.

Melbourne has the largest remaining tram public transportation in the world.

Australia is three times larger than the largest island (Greenland) in the world.

The first meeting of the Australian Labor Party under a gum tree in Queensland held.

Uluru (Ayers Rock) is about eight kilometers in circumference.

Australians call the English "pommies" from the initials KERN to convict uniforms that became "Prisoner of Mother England."

The name "Kylie" comes from the Aboriginal word for boomerang.

in 1967 only Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared. Nobody really knows what happened to him, but most people think he drowned while swimming.

The first Australian-born Governor General was a Jew.

was the commander of Australian troops in World War One.

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, to find the top 25 deadliest snakes in the world 20 in Australia.

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of deadly jellyfish in the world is the Australian coast.

The Sydney funnel ~~ POS = TRUNC is to be considered the world's deadliest spider. There you can kill in less than two hours. The only animals without immunity to the funnel web venom are humans and apes.

Vegemite is made from yeast extract and is common to Australia. It is also one of the worst things I've ever eaten in my entire life.

For more information about Australia, including more facts, figures, things to do, and places to see

, read these other articles on my site:

10 Reasons to visit Australia
media and in Australia
How to travel oz Cheaply seen
The cost of traveling oz

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