For English and Geography lessons

1. AUSTRALIA

2. • It has 16 world heritage listed sites including
historic townships, cities and landscapes.
World Heritage Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne

3. • Most of Australia's
exotic flora and fauna
cannot be found
anywhere else in the
world.

4. • Approximately 1.35 trillion bottles
of wine are produced by Australia.

5. • Kangaroo meat can be purchased from
the supermarket, butcher and available on
restaurant menus as a leaner and
healthier alternative to beef or lamb with a
1-2 percent fat content.

6. • Today’s Australia is very multicultural with
Indigenous peoples and migrants from
some 200 countries. Over 200 different
languages and dialects are spoken in
Australia including 45 Indigenous
languages. The most common non-
English spoken languages are Italian,
Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese
and Mandarin.

7. • Australia is the only place in the
world where you can still find the
lung fish which is a living fossil
from the Triassic period 350
million years ago.

8. • Surprisingly Australia is the most obese
country in the world as of 2012 with a 26
percent obesity rate despite being a sport
loving nation.

9. • With an average of 330 metres Australia is the
lowest continent in the world.

10. • Australia is the only continent without an
active volcano

11. • Another one of the interesting facts about
Australia is Australia has one of the lowest
population densities in the world with an
average of three people per square
kilometre.

12. • The Kangaroo and the Emu were chosen
to feature on the Australian Coat of Arms
because they are incapable of walking
backwards and therefore symbolise a
nation moving forward.

13. • Australia is home to six of the top ten
deadliest snakes in the world

14. • The Australian platypus and echidna are
the only mammals (monotremes) to lay
eggs.

15. • Australia's tropical
north or the top end
is home to the
world's largest
saltwater crocodile.

16. • United States architect Walter Burley
Griffin won the competition in 1912 to
design Australia's capital city of Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory .