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by Ionela-Luiza Nicoară
Ş.A.M. NOCRICH
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Ê e first in abitants of Australia were t e
Aborigines, w o migrated t ere at least
40.000 years ago from Sout east Asia. Ê ere
may ave been between a alf million to a
full million Aborigines at t e time of
European settlement; today about 350.000
live in Australia.
Dutc , Portuguese, and Spanis s ips
sig ted Australia in t e 17t century. Ê e
Dutc landed at t e Gulf of Carpentaria in
1606. In 1616 t e territory became known as
New Holland.
Ê e Britis arrived in 1688, but it was not
until Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770
t at Great Britain claimed possession of t e
vast island, calling it New Sout
ales. A
Britis penal colony was set up at Port
Jackson (w at is now Sydney) in 1788, and
about 161.000 transported Englis convicts
were settled t ere.
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New Sout
ales (1786)

Êasmania (t en Van
Diemen's Land) (1825)

estern Australia(1829)
Sout Australia (1834)
Victoria (1851)
Queensland (1859)
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Australia's landmass of 7.617.930 square

kilometres is on t e Indo-Australian Plate.
Surrounded by t e Indian and Pacific
oceans, it is separated from Asia by t e
Arafura and Êimor seas. Ê e world's smallest
continent and sixt largest country by total
area.
Australia²owing to its size and isolation²is
often dubbed t e ³island continent´ and
variably considered t e world's largest
island.
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Ê e continent of Australia, wit t e island state of Êasmania, is
approximately equal in area to t e United States (excluding Alaska and
Hawaii).
Mountain ranges run from nort to sout along t e east coast,
reac ing t eir ig est point in Mount Kosciusko (7,308 ft; 2,228 m).
Ê e western alf of t e continent is occupied by a desert plateau
t at rises into barren, rolling ills near t e west coast. Ê e Great
Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 mi (2,000 km), lies along t e
nort east coast.
Ê e island of Êasmania (26,178 sq mi; 67,800 sq km) is off t e
sout east coast.
Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock
formation in t e sout ern part of t e Nort ern Êerritory, central
Australia.
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Ê e capital and largest

city of t e Australian
state of
estern
Australia is«
Ê e largest city in
Australia and
Oceania is«

Australia
Capital is«




Parliament ouse Carillion

Captain Cook Jet and National Library

 


Ê e Sydney Opera House Downtown from t e Rocks

Sydney Harbour Bridge Sydney Harbour

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Skyline of Pert Gouvernment House

Hay Street
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Ê e flora of Australia comprises a vast

assemblage of plant species estimated to over
20.000 vascular and 14.000 non-vascular plants,
250.000 species of fungi and over 3.000 lic ens.
Ê e flora as strong affinities wit t e flora of
AUSÊRALIAN Gondwana, and below t e family level as a
ig ly endemic angiosperm flora w ose diversity
FLORA was s aped by t e effects of continental drift and
climate c ange since t e Cretaceous. Prominent
features of t e Australian flora are adaptations to
aridity and fire w ic include scleromorp y and
serotiny. Ê ese adaptations are common in
species from t e large and well-known families
Proteaceae (K
 ), Myrtaceae ( 
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gum trees), and Fabaceae (  - wattle).
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BANKSIAS

EUCALYPÊUS

GREVILLEAS
 Ê e fauna of Australia consists of a uge
variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of
reptiles, 90% of fis and insects and 93% of
amp ibians t at in abit t e continent are endemic
to Australia. A unique feature of Australia's
fauna is t e relative scarcity of native placental
mammals. Consequently t e marsupials²a group
AUSÊRALIAN of mammals t at raise t eir young in a pouc ,
including t e macropods , possums and
FAUNA dasyuromorp s ² occupy many of t e ecological
nic es placental animals occupy elsew ere in t e
world. Australia is ome to numerous venomous
species, w ic include t e Platypus, spiders,
scorpions, octopus, jellyfis , molluscs, stonefis ,
and stingrays. Uniquely, Australia as more
venomous t an non-venomous species of snakes.
 ECHIDNA ÊASMANIAN DEVIL
KOALA BEAR

PLAÊYPUS CROCODILE LYRE BIRD

PYGMY POSSUM

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If you click ere you will identify cute symbol of Australia.
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