Australia Chris Palmer 3rd

• The Aboriginals were the firs people in Australia• They were believed to arrive to the island by boat and settled

down there in the ice age 50,000 years ago• The first British to arrive were all convicts• By the 1820s more settlers had come and made farms with the

land • By 1851 the British had found gold and a gold rush began • The gold rush had brought money and expensive goods to it

majors cities like Sydney. • By the 1880s they were very modern cities • In 1901 Australia and its six states became one nation

History

• Australia is located 32.3456 degrees south and 141.4346 degrees east

• Australia is considered an island nation including Australia, Tasmania, Hinchinbrook island, and many more

• Australia has over 8000 islands

Geography

• Australia has a population of 22 million • Australia capital is Canberra• National language is English • There are more kangaroos than people in

Australia • Australia is the lowest continent in the

world

Did you know?

Sydney Opera House

the opera house was open in 1973 and represents Australia It cost 120,000,000 to build.

Rain forest/Euclyptus forest

Emu

Sugar glider

The outback

The island of Tasmania

The Ghan

Plane ticketIt would cost 1,803$ for a ticket per person from Detroit to Sydney Their would be two stops in Chicago and Los Angeles. It is a 26 hour trip Flight numbers. 16 and 1806

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