Australia(interesting facts)

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• It has 16 world heritage listed sites including historic townships, cities and landscapes.

World Heritage Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne

• Most of Australia's exotic flora and fauna cannot be found anywhere else in the world.

• Approximately 1.35 trillion bottles of wine are produced by Australia.

• Kangaroo meat can be purchased from the supermarket, butcher and available on restaurant menus as a leaner and healthier alternative to beef or lamb with a 1-2 percent fat content.

• Today’s Australia is very multicultural with Indigenous peoples and migrants from some 200 countries. Over 200 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. The most common non-English spoken languages are Italian, Greek, Cantonese, Arabic, Vietnamese and Mandarin.

• Australia is the only place in the world where you can still find the

lung fish which is a living fossil from the Triassic period 350 million years

ago.

• Surprisingly Australia is the most obese country in the world as of 2012 with a 26 percent obesity rate despite being a sport loving nation.

• With an average of 330 metres With an average of 330 metres Australia is the lowest continent in Australia is the lowest continent in the world. the world.

• Australia is the only continent without an active volcano

• Another one of the interesting facts about Australia is Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world with an average of three people per square kilometre.

• The Kangaroo and the Emu were chosen to feature on the Australian Coat of Arms because they are incapable of walking backwards and therefore symbolise a nation moving forward.

• Australia is home to six of the top ten deadliest snakes in the world

• The Australian platypus and echidna are the only mammals (monotremes) to lay eggs.

• Australia's tropical north or the top end is home to the world's largest saltwater crocodile.

• United States architect Walter Burley Griffin won the competition in 1912 to design Australia's capital city of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory .