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What's Australia famous for?
What Australians are famous?
What have you always being dying to learn about Australia?
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Australia - the wonderful country this lens is all about!
Australia was discovered in 1606 by Dutch explorers (well the West Coast anyway) and good old Captain James Cook discovered the rest in 1770.
The name Australia originally comes from the latin - terra australis incognita - "unknown southern land".
Australia was discovered in 1606 by Dutch explorers (well the West Coast anyway) and good old Captain James Cook discovered the rest in 1770.
The name Australia originally comes from the latin - terra australis incognita - "unknown southern land".
B is for Beaches & Barbies
Beaches in Australia are popular with locals, travellers and backpackers. Australians are very much outdoor people and spending time having barbies (BBQ's) on the beach or just surfing or swimming is a very popular pastime.Bondi Beach, Sydney, New South Wales is probably the most well known Australian Beach and thousands of backpackers congregate their every Christmas Day to experience what is probably their first Christmas ever in a bikini!
C is for Cairns & Crocodiles!
Cairns - the backpacker mecca of the world? Cairns has an unbelievable number of backpackers hostels because so many backpackers travel there to scuba dive for the first time but mainly just to party!
Visit this lens about Cairns to find out more.
Crocodiles - saltwater crocs (estuarine crocodile or "salties") and freshwater crocs are scarily quite common in Australia. Freshwater crocs are pretty much harmless probably because they're quite small, however saltwater crocs are pretty fierce and extremely dangerous.
People are killed by crocs in Australia (a few years back a German tourist was killed by one - stupidly this tourist had been swimming in an area that had a sign which clearly stated - DANGEROUS - DO NOT SWIM, CROCODILES LIVE HERE
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Crocodiles - saltwater crocs (estuarine crocodile or "salties") and freshwater crocs are scarily quite common in Australia. Freshwater crocs are pretty much harmless probably because they're quite small, however saltwater crocs are pretty fierce and extremely dangerous.
People are killed by crocs in Australia (a few years back a German tourist was killed by one - stupidly this tourist had been swimming in an area that had a sign which clearly stated - DANGEROUS - DO NOT SWIM, CROCODILES LIVE HERE
D is for Dingo
Dingo - a dingo is a feral dog which is quite common in Australia especially on Fraser Island (where the purest breed of dingoes is found)a dingo ate my baby
"Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (born 11 June 1980 in Mount Isa, Queensland) was a ten-week-old Australian baby who disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 on a camping trip to Ayers Rock (Uluru) with her family.
Her parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, reported that she had been taken from their tent by a dingo. An initial inquest, highly critical of the police investigation, supported this assertion. The findings of the inquest were broadcast live on television - a first in Australia. Subsequently, after a further investigation and second inquest, Azaria's mother, Lindy Chamberlain, was tried and convicted of her murder, on 29 October 1982 and sentenced to life imprisonment. Azaria's father, Michael Chamberlain, was convicted as an accessory after the fact and given a suspended sentence.
The media focus for the trial was extraordinarily intense and sensational. The Chamberlains made several unsuccessful appeals, including the final High Court appeal. After all legal options had been exhausted, the chance discovery of a piece of Azaria's clothing in an area full of dingo lairs led to Lindy Chamberlain's release from prison, on "compassionate grounds." She was later exonerated of all charges."
* taken from Wikipedia.
G is for Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world and is also the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. So big in fact that it can be seen from outer space. J is for Jellyfish
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