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Australia
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world, and located south of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, in the Southern Hemisphere.
14,688 Questions
Why are there so many fires in Australia?
Most of Australia is made up of dry areas of bushland. During summer the heat depending where you are can range from 30 degrees upto and over 45. The heat plus dried out bushland equals fire, though so are lit by idiots
What Australian marsupial lay eggs?
There are two egg-laying mammals in Australia. They are the platypus and the short-beaked echidna.
The only other egg-laying mammal is the long-beaked echidna, which is only found in New Guinea.
How many continents are larger than Australia?
Six 1. Asia - 44,700,000 sq km
2. Africa - 30,300,000 sq km
3. North America - 24,360,000 sq km
4. South America - 17,770,000 sq km
5. Antarctica - 14,000,000 sq km (island continent)
6. Europe - 9,940,000 sq km
7. Australia - 7,686,850 sq km (island continent)
Why cant you bring food into australia?
Due to health and safety.
Your food may contain foreign insects which can be transported from one country to another through the food product.
Capital cities of Australia and their rivers?
The capital cities of Australia are:
- Canberra, the nation's capital, which is on the Molonglo River
- Sydney (New South Wales), which is located on Sydney Harbour
- Melbourne (Victoria), located on the Yarra River
- Adelaide (South Australia), on the Torrens River
- Brisbane (Queensland), on the Brisbane River
- Perth (Western Australia), on the Swan River
- Hobart (Tasmania), on the Derwent River
- Darwin (Northern Territory, which is not a state), on the Darwin Harbour.
What is the size of the Outback Desert?
There is no single desert known as the "outback desert" in Australia. There are numerous deserts. The three largest deserts in Australia are:
Great Victoria Desert (Western Australia): 424,400 km2 (163,900 square miles)
Great Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 284,993 km2 (110,036 square miles)
Tanami Desert (Western Australia and Northern Territory): 184,500 km2 (71,235 square miles)
Each of these deserts is either in or primarily in Western Australia, in the western third of the continent.
The Nullarbor Plain is an arid, limestone region extending for some 270,000 square km above the Great Australian Bight. Nothing is cultivated there, and in many respects its aridness places it within the category of desert, but there is little (if any) sand there.
Other deserts include -
Simpson Desert (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia): 176,500 km2 (68,145 square miles)
Gibson Desert (Western Australia): 156,000 km2 (60,230 square miles)
Little Sandy Desert (Western Australia): 111,500 km2 (43,050 square miles)
Strzelecki Desert (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia): 80,250 km2 (30,985 square miles)
Sturt Stony Desert (South Australia): 29,750 km2 (11,485 square miles)
Tirari Desert (South Australia): 15,250 km2 (5,890 square miles)
Pedirka Desert (South Australia): 1,250 km2 (480 square miles)
How do they build underground homes in Australia?
look on the internet. the internet knows everything!
Yes you will find pictures etc about Coober Pedy if you google the name.
In Coober Pedy underground homes are dug by machine or hand dug. Some of the houses are old mine tunnels.
Coober Pedy is an opal mining area.
What year did the first color television come out in the US?
Color television made its debut in the US in the early 1950s. It was a commercial failure and was withdrawn after only a few months. By 1955 a national standard for color television was agreed and RCA launched color services. The new color broadcasts and televisions were a rapid success and by 1956, sales of color televisions had grown dramatically.
The color standard used was called NTSC and is the standard definition color encoding system that is still used today, more than half a century on.
Is Australia better than Afghanistan?
If you prefer getting your hands cut off for stealing over going to jail for a month, then Afghanistan is much better.
When did television first start in Australia?
Australia's first television broadcast was made at 7:00pm on 16 September 1956.
A regular broadcasting service was only provided in January of the following year, when television station GTV 9 officiallyopened with a regular broadcasting service on 19 January 1957.
What is toilet in Australian slang?
Toilets are called toilets in Australia.
A toilet is also colloquially known as dunny or loo.
Advantages and disadvantages of Tourism in The Great Barrier Reef?
Advantages - nice
Disadvantages - tourism kills animals and the reef
How long did it take a sailing ship to travel from Britain to Australia in the 19th century?
The diary of Maria Steley written on board the " Ariadne", left Liverpool 6th October 1863 and arrived in Moreton Bay 3rd February 1864.
They had to be quarantined on North Stradbroke Island due to Measles on board.
Asia is a continent composed of less economically developed countries (LEDCs) and newly industrialized countries (NICs).
Countries in Asia considered as LEDCs are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Bhutan, East Timor, Lao People's Republic, Maldives, Burna (Myanmar), Nepal and Yemen.
Asian countries consistently considered as NICs by many authors are China, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Some authors would include Indonesia to this list.
A coroboree is generally a celebration for the indigenous Australians, in which Australian Aborigines enact various events through song, dance and music. Sometimes, a coroboree would re-enact a particular hunting event, or a re-creation of a story from the Dreamtime, or time of Creation. Men and boys would paint their bodies in a particular way: sometimes this was a preparation for the boys to be initiated into the tribe by being cut in specific patterns that would then heal in patterns to identify them forever with that tribe. The didgeridoo featured strongly in coroborees, as did click sticks.
What are Australia's first inhabitants called?
Another name for the First Australians is the Aborigines or Indigenous Australians. They were the first people that inhabited Australia. Scholars believe that this indigenous people probably arrive in this part of world nearly 50,000 years ago.
One UK dollar euals to how many Indian rupees?
Because of the constantly changing economic demands the monetary exchange rate is constantly changing. With that in mind, as of July 12th 2014, one US Dollar equals 60.03 Indian Rupees.
What is the biggest river or lake in Australia?
The largest inland body of water in Australia is Lake Eyre. Lake Eyre is a salt water lake that that covers over 9690 square km, or 3430 square miles.
However, the answer is not quite that straightforward. Whilst Lake Eyre covers the largest area, most of the time it is a dry saltpan or, more correctly, a salt sink. The lake fills about once every ten years.
Australia's largest natural freshwater lake is Lake Mackay in Western Australia, which is 3 494 sq km in area.
Is Sydney Australia the closest to New Zealand?
No. The part of Australia which is closest to New Zealand is the island state of Tasmania, so the closest Australian city to New Zealand would be Hobart.
When is the next Australian census?
The census is in years divisible by 10. 2010 is the next census. The census is needed to apportion the house of representatives, among other things.
