Australia

AUSTRALIA

by Ionela-Luiza Nicoară

Ş.A.M. NOCRICH

HistoriansThe first inhabitants of Australia were the Aborigines, who migrated there at least 40.000 years ago from Southeast Asia. There may have been between a half million to a full million Aborigines at the time of European settlement; today about 350.000 live in Australia. Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish ships sighted Australia in the 17th century. The Dutch landed at the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1606. In 1616 the territory became known as New Holland. The British arrived in 1688, but it was not until Captain James Cook's voyage in 1770 that Great Britain claimed possession of the vast island, calling it New South Wales. A British penal colony was set up at Port Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and about 161.000 transported English convicts were settled there.

The first colonies

New South Wales (1786)Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) (1825)Western Australia(1829)South Australia (1834)Victoria (1851)Queensland (1859)

Geographers

Australia's landmass of 7.617.930 square kilometres is on the Indo-Australian Plate. Surrounded by the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is separated from Asia by the Arafura and Timor seas. The world's smallest continent and sixth largest country by total area.Australia—owing to its size and isolation—is often dubbed the “island continent” and variably considered the world's largest island.

Geographical positionThe continent of Australia, with the island state of Tasmania,

is approximately equal in area to the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast, reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko (7,308 ft; 2,228 m).

The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert plateau that rises into barren, rolling hills near the west coast. The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 mi (2,000 km), lies along the northeast coast.

The island of Tasmania (26,178 sq mi; 67,800 sq km) is off the southeast coast. Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia.

Major cities of Australia

Australia Capital is…

The largest city in Australia and Oceania is…

The capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia is…

Canberra

Parliament house Carillion

Captain Cook Jet and National Library

Sydney

The Sydney Opera House

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Downtown from the Rocks

Sydney Harbour

Perth

Skyline of Perth Gouvernment House

Hay Street

Biologists

The flora of Australia comprises a vast assemblage of plant species estimated to over 20.000 vascular and 14.000 non-vascular plants, 250.000 species of fungi and over 3.000 lichens. The flora has strong affinities with the flora of Gondwana, and below the family level has a highly endemic angiosperm flora whose diversity was shaped by the effects of continental drift and climate change since the Cretaceous. Prominent features of the Australian flora are adaptations to aridity and fire which include scleromorphy and serotiny. These adaptations are common in species from the large and well-known families Proteaceae (Banksia), Myrtaceae (Eucalyptus - gum trees), and Fabaceae (Acacia - wattle).

AUSTRALIANFLORA

ACACIA

BANKSIAS

EUCALYPTUS

GREVILLEAS

The fauna of Australia consists of a huge

variety of animals; some 83% of mammals, 89% of reptiles, 90% of fish and insects and 93% of amphibians that inhabit the continent are endemic to Australia. A unique feature of Australia's fauna is the relative scarcity of native placental mammals. Consequently the marsupials—a group of mammals that raise their young in a pouch, including the macropods , possums and dasyuromorphs — occupy many of the ecological niches placental animals occupy elsewhere in the world. Australia is home to numerous venomous species, which include the Platypus, spiders, scorpions, octopus, jellyfish, molluscs, stonefish, and stingrays. Uniquely, Australia has more venomous than non-venomous species of snakes.

AUSTRALIANFAUNA

ECHIDNAECHIDNA

KOALA BEARKOALA BEARTASMANIAN DEVILTASMANIAN DEVIL

PLATYPUSPLATYPUS CROCODILECROCODILE LYRE BIRDLYRE BIRD

NUMBATNUMBAT CUSCUSCUSCUS

PYGMY POSSUMPYGMY POSSUM

Surprise… If you click here you will identify cute symbol of Australia.

KangarooKangaroo

Some aspects during the development of the project

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia

http://www.e-australia.com.au/flora-and-fauna/

http://australian-animals.net/

http://www.australia.com/index.aspx

http://wikitravel.org/ro/Australia

http://www.csu.edu.au/australia/

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Adam Vasile-7th gradeCorman Vasile-7th gradeFâţan Lucia-7th gradeMihu Edifta-7th gradePiele Elena-Raluca-7th gradeŞtefan Mihai-Cătălin-7th gradeŞtefan Mihai-Alex-7th gradeVarga Paula-7th gradeVlad Bianca-7th grade

Coordinator:-teacher: Birtalan Armanda-Ramona-teacher: Nicoară Ionela-Luiza

Team project

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