Transcript Australia

G’day! This is our project on Australia.
We hope you enjoy it.
Lauren researched the geography of the
country.
Chloe researched the flag.
Abbie researched the history of the island.
Neha researched animals and
Roann researched features.
This is our project on Australia. Hope you enjoy it.....
Great
Barrier Reef is over 2,000 km long and it is the
largest structure ever made by living creatures
Tallest mountain: Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m tall) in
the Great Dividing Range
Nicknamed ‘Land Down Under’
Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the
world
Sydney
Opera House
Ayers Rock or Uluru
Great Barrier Reef
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The
Australian flag is known as the
Commonwealth Blue Ensign.
The flag consists of The Crux constellation, the 7
pointed star and the Union Jack.
It is the only flag in the world that represents a
whole continent.
The
Commonwealth of Australia is a
democracy.
Leaders are elected by the adult population.
The Queen of England has the title ‘Chief of
State’.
Blue
Tongued skink has a life span of up to 20 years.
Kangaroo is a marsupial whose tail helps it balance.
It can hop up to 9 metres long.
The Tasmanian Devil gets its name from its ability to
scream loud.
The koala lives in trees and eats leaves.
Aborigines
arrived over 40,000 years ago.
The Europeans arrived in 1788.
In 1851 gold was found.
 The Dutch first landed in 1606.
Rainforest=Eastern
coast
Desert=1/3 of Australia is desert
Second largest monolith=Uluru also known
as ‘Ayers Rock’
garbo:
garbage man
grizzle:
to complain
jumbuck:
sheep
lollies:
candy, sweets
mate:
a best buddy
mozzie:a mosquito
she'll be apples:
It will be all right.
snags:
sausages
stickybeak:
a busybody
arvo:
afternoon
barbie:
a barbecue
billabong:
waterhole in a dry riverbed
bluey:
a red-haired person
chook:
a chicken
Chrissie:
Christmas
crook:
broken or sick, as in "I'm crook. I think I have the flu."
drongo:
a foolish person
fair dinkum:
really, honestly