by Paula Schechter
- Australia is the 6th largest country. It is the largest island. It is the only continent that is a country. ??
- Australia is home to the largest living organism: the Great Barrier Reef ?
- One of the first group of Europeans to move to Australia were prisoners from England. ?♀️
- The aboriginal people have been in Australia for 50,000 years. ?
- Melbourne was the original capital of Australia. Now it is Canberra. ?
- Melbourne was originally named Batmania after John Batman not Batman Batman. ?
- The design plans for the train station in Melbourne was switched with designs plans for a train station in Mumbai and now they have the wrong buildings.* ?
- Australians have a funny prank that they play. They invented the Drop Bear – an attack koala bear with white fangs – to scare tourists. ?+?=?
- The prime minister of Australia drowned and people made a memorial pool in his honor.?♀️
- Australia has the most native animals in the world; including 140 species of marsupials ?.
- Australia has some of the deadliest animals in the world (see post on “things that will you”). ?
- The world’s largest monolith is Uluru.?
- It is the only continent without an active volcano.?
- Australia’s platypus and echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs.?
- Australia has the greatest number of wild camels in the world.?
* This could be a myth but it’s funny.?
