Transcript Welcome to the most beautiful place in Australia- Sydney

Welcome to the most beautiful
place in Australia- Sydney
Now take a few minutes and
become enchanted by the vital,
optimistic and peaceful
Sydney!
A presentation by
Wiebke Wawrzin
Sangeetha Sivakumar
Sissy Kanneettukandathil
Ramesch Ghassem- Khanloo
Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South
Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city (founded in 1788).
It has a population of 4 million. Sydney is the secret capital of
Australia and it‘s also the centre of finance, transport, trade
and culture. Sydney is a significant global and domestic tourist
destination and is regularly declared to be one of the most
beautiful and livable cities in the world, admired for its harbour,
beaches and cosmopolitan culture. Sydney significantly raised
its global profile in recent years as the host city of the Olympic
Games in 2000.
The Sydney Opera House actually is a complex
of many theatres and concert halls, e.g. Opera
Theatre for Operas and Ballets (1547 seats),
Concert Hall - for concerts of all kinds, from
Symphonies to Rock, Jazz and Pop
(2690 seats) and Drama Theatre for the
performances of the Sydney Dance Company.
There is also a studio and a playhouse. Up to
3000 performances per year take place here.
Roof structure
The are a lot of comparisons and
speculations of how Jørn Utzorn got the
inspiration for the roof shape.
• orange zests
• fan-shaped palm leaves
• sails
• nun's hoods
• mussels
The roofs are constructed of more than a
million glazed tiles, which were produced in
Sweden.
Restaurants & Bars
At the Guillaume at Bennelong Restaurant one can have an
exquisite dinner after a concert and enjoy the wonderful
views of circular quay or farm cove.
Guillaume at Bennelong is situated in the southern
shell of the Sydney Opera House, where diners sit
beneath Joern Utzon's vaulted concrete "ribs".
Sensuously curved, chocolate-coloured banquettes
surround generously-spaced tables. Both the
restaurant and the bar offer spectacular views of
Sydney Harbour, the Bridge, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Circular Quay and the city.
The vision of Taronga Zoo is to inspire Australians and the visitors to
discover, explore, delight in and protect the natural world. Taronga Zoo
has about 380 species and over 2200 individual animals. There are a
variety of fascinating keeper talks and feeding times to see at Taronga
Zoo, including the Cheetahs, Rhinos, Cape Hunting Dogs and more.
To come to the zoo you have to drive on a ferry from Circular Quay,
which comes all 30 minutes. The visitors can begin their day at the
zoo with a Sky Safari ride from the ferry to the main entrance plaza
while enjoying spectacular city, harbour and zoo views and then walk
down to the zoo.
The fastest animals on four legs,
African Cheetahs have a flexible spine
which helps them to run up to 110 km
per hour over a short distance. Their
long tail acts as a counter-balance on
sharp turns. Biting into the neck they
strangle their prey. ‘Cheetah’ comes
from a Hindi word meaning ‘spotted
one’.
The Black Rhinoceros has two horns,
which it uses for attack and defence. It is
very protective of its territory which it
marks by spraying urine and stamping in
its faeces, depositing the scent with each
footstep. Its poor vision, however, means
that a motionless person can stand
upwind as close as 30m undetected.
The Australian Sealion is the largest
animal found along the shore of
Southern Australia. They use all four
flippers to move around on land. With
nostrils shut, sealions speed through the
water and swallow their food head first
and whole.
Koala is an Aboriginal name meaning
‘no drink’ as they rarely drink. Feeding
exclusively on low-energy eucalyptus
leaves, they sleep up to twenty hours a
day. Born of a very small size, Koalas
travel to their mother’s pouch where
they stay until they are old enough to
cling onto her back.
A Kangaroo is a marsupial mammal meaning it carries its
baby in its pouch on the outside of its tummy. The baby
is born really tiny and crawls into its mother's pouch.
The baby lives in its mother's pouch till its quite large.
The kangaroo usually rests in the shade during the day
and comes out to eat in the late afternoon and night
when its much cooler. The kangaroo fights by attacking
its opponent with its front paws (which have sharp
claws) or by kicking them with its powerful hind legs
(like a boxer).
Port Jackson is the natural harbour of
Sydney. It is also known as Sydney
Harbour and it is the largest natural
harbour in the world. It is a prime
piece of real estate in Sydney today.
Its most well-known features are the
Sydney Opera House and Sydney
Harbour Bridge.
Athol Beach is next to the Athol Wharf – the
ferry berth from Taronga Zoo. With the view of
the city, Athol Bay is a fantastic picknick
place. This beach is next to Bradleys Head
Walk, one of the most beautiful walk ways
through bushwalk with amazing views of the
city.
Bondi Beach is world famous and
it‘s the best-liked beach for
surfers. They come here to find
the perfect wave. Also many
people just come here to feel the
fantastic sun.
One of the most impressive and major
landmarks of Sydney is the Harbour Bridge,
which spans the harbour from Dawes Point to
Milsons Point. It was constructed between
1923 and 1932 and it also was the city's tallest
structure until 1967. The bridge measures
134m in height, 502 m long, 48.8 m wide
and weight 52.800 tons. For only one coat
30.000 l of paint were necessary.
The Sydneysiders call it the "Coathanger".
Can you guess why ;-)?
The bridge carries 8 lanes of traffic on it‘s
main roadway (called the Bradfield Highway),
2 railway lines and a bicycle path along its
western side, and a footpath along the eastern
side. The Bradfield Highway is about 2.4 km
long and is the shortest highway in Australia.
The bridge deck portion of the highway is
17.4 metres wide and 1,149 km long.
In Sydney attractions like the Opera House,
skyscrapers and beautiful residential homes share the
attractiveness with bush land, sandstone rocks,
natural harbour and the coastline. Citizens and visitors
enjoy the mixture of pulsing metropolitan life and
relaxing in sometimes almost deserted nature. Sydney
does not have the biodiversity of rain forests, but
anyway there are around 2000 native plants and
additional 1000 weeds, among which are a lot of plants
from other regions of Australia. The rich flora feeds
around 300 native birds and numerous mammals,
marsupials, reptiles, etc.
The Grevilleae has
a huge number of
different kinds with
flowers in all
colours and sizes.
Angophora costata belongs
to the Myrtaceae family. The
trees grow up to 30 m. It is
common on sandstone. In
summer it drops its bark,
new pink barks appears