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Australia. Australians all let us rejoice. Australians all let us rejoice,For we are young and free,We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;Our home is girt by sea;Our land abounds in nature’s gifts. Of beauty rich and rare;In history’s page, let every stage. Advance Australia Fair. In joyful strains then let us sing,Advance Australia Fair.

Our Team. Bilinskyi Vasyl. Mei Ariadna. Reznikov Oleksandr Furman Veronika. Shymanskyi Artur

Some facts of australia. Major cities: Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, and Adelaide Population: 17.5 million. Geographic size: 2.97 million square miles. Capital: Canberra

History1770 – captain James Cook discovered Australia. He landed south of present day Sydney and claimed this part of land for the King of England.1788 – captain Arthur Phillip commanded eleven ships to Australia. About 750 of the 1000 people on the ships were convicts. They were the first British settlers. At that time Australia was inhabited by the Aborigines. There were about 300,000 Aborigines living on the continent.1827 – Great Britain claimed all of Australia.1901 – Australia became a nation within the British Empire under Queen Victoria’s rule. It was called the Commonwealth of Australia.1931 – Australia gained independence from Great Britain.

Dramatic landscape

Population. Australia has a population of about 18 million people. 70 per cent of the population live in 10 largest cities. Most of the population is in the south – eastern corner of the country and only 15 per cent live in rural areas. Australia is a multicultural society. People from about 200 nations live there. But most are of British origin. The Aborigines, the Australian natives, represent about 1.5 per cent of the population.

Cities. Canberra. Sydney Melbourne. Brisbane

Places for tourists. University of Sydney. Royal National Park. The Big Pineapple

The great Barrier Reef. Australia has the largest coral reef in the world.

Nature. Australian continent has very rich flora and fauna: nearly half a million species of plants and animals – one of the greatest varieties of any country in the world. They have more than 20,000 species of plants, and 85 % of these are found only in Australia.

AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL WORLDAustralian animal world is unique: more than 50 types of kangaroos, enormous amount of parrots and other birds, about 200 species of frogs, 282 mammal species, 82 % do not occur anywhere else. There is a great variety of animal life in Australia’s waters. There are more than 4000 species of fish in the seas around Australia. Emu. Tree Kangaroo Koala

Australian animals. Platypus. Wombat. Echidna. Numbat. Dingo

You are welcome to Australia!