Australia – It’s all here!
Australia is the smallest continent and largest
island in world, situated between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. It was
a former British colony, now an independent member of the Commonwealth;
consists chiefly of a low plateau, mostly arid in the west, with the basin
of the Murray River and The Great Dividing Range in the east and The Great
Barrier Reef off the NE coast.
Language - English.
Currency - dollar.
Area - 7,686, 845 sq km
(2,967,894 sq. miles).
Population 20 million.
The Aussie Dollars
How can a single country have world-class
cities, snowfields, deserts, rainforests and golden beaches? Well, being
nearly 8 million km² in size, Australia has a lot of ground to cover. If
you want to know About Australia, grab your thongs (and your flip flops)
and get ready for adventure — Aussie style!
Australia’s awesome
natural beauty is talked about worldwide with wonder. And while
Australians are proud of the diverse landscape, we are equally proud of
the diversity of our people and the warm welcome we offer visitors from
near and far.
Australians are laid back, as we often say. Enjoying
our food, sport and beaches are common pastimes for many Aussies. If you
can’t find us at the local footy ground cheering our team on a Saturday
afternoon, then chances are we’re enjoying the day with friends at one of
many chic street cafés to be found in any of our major
cities.
Come and explore Australia with Elliot — welcome and
happy travels!
Here is a beautifully written poem about
Australia...it says it all.
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My
Country by Dorothea Mackellar
I
love a sunburnt country,
A
land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and
flooding rains,
I love her far horizons,
I love her
jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for
me!
The
stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The
sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle
of the brushes
Where the lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the
tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When,
sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey
clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an
army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For
flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the
thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of
greenness
That thickens as we gaze...
The
opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not
loved her,
You will not understand -
Though Earth holds many
splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My
homing thoughts will fly.
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