What is unique about Australia?

Answer 1

• It is the smallest continent.
• It is the only continent containing just one nation.
• It is one of only two island continents (the other is Antarctica).
• It is the only place with the kangaroo, the koala and most other marsupials of the world.
• There are very few truly native placental terrestrial mammal. They include the bat, of which there are over 80 species, and native hopping mice.
• Australia has both of the world's only monotremes (egg-laying mammals) - the platypus and the echidna.
• The continent can be traversed from South to North without exceeding 300m in height.
• The average population of 3 per sq km is the lowest of any permanently occupied continent.
• It contains the world's two largest monoliths (Mt Augustus and Uluru).
• The country was originally established as a convict colony.