Australia

In and around the Great Barrier Reef can be found:

* 1625 species of fish, including 1400 coral reef species

* More than 3000 species of molluscs (shells)

* 630 species of echinoderm (starfish, sea urchins)

* 14 species of sea snakes

* 215 species of birds including 22 species of seabirds and 32 species of shorebirds

* Six species of marine turtle (there are only 7 species in the world)

* 30 species of whales and dolphins

* one of the largest populations of dugong

* 133 species of sharks and rays

As well, there are an estimated 400 species of hard and soft corals, and at least 2195 known plant species.

No ocean "surrounds" Perth, but the ocean which borders Perth is the Indian Ocean.

To Australians, the outback epitomises the free, open, country life. There seem to be no restrictions to the continuous wide, open spaces, and when you are in the outback there's a good chance that, unless you're on the major highways, you can travel for hours without meeting another car. Australia is a vast country, with huge tracts of unoccupied, dry land, which is the outback. It is its geography which makes it "the outback". However, the cities, towns and beaches also comprise a large proportion of Australia.

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Because whales were becoming endangered and there was moremoney to be made out of tourism around whales then hunting them down.

Polish-born explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, was the first in Australia to climb Mt Kosciuszko. On 15 March 1840, Strzelecki climbed Australia's highest mainland mountain and named it after a Polish Patriot, Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The Kosciuszko National Park, in turn, is named after this mountain.

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Rising salinity is the major environmental crisis threatening the rivers of the Murray-Darling basin. Another major issue involves the distribution of waters throughout the basin to farms and towns, and trying to balance this with the need to keep water levels high enough to maintain the health of the basin.

A bush is a bush in Australia. A small bush may be a shrub.

"The bush" is another term altogether, and quite different from "a bush". The "bush" is the general rural area, somewhat remote from highly populated regions, and often confused with the outback. The "bush" is hard to define, as it is neither desert, not good agricultural land. It is more defined as that rugged region, often hilly or mountainous, where tree cover is reasonably thick. It is not like the outback, which gained its name from being "out the back of beyond", where trees are scattered more sparsely. The bush is not the same as the rainforest, as it tends to refer to drier regions.

The world's shortest river is a mere 120 feet (37 meters) long. It is http://wiki.answers.com/library/maps/blusor.htmD River which connects Devil's Lake directly to the Pacific Ocean near Lincoln City, Oregon.

Australia has only ever had one "official" name, and that is its current name: The Commonwealth of Australia.

As a continent, the name "Australia" was adopted in 1824, but this did not refer to the country, as Australia was not yet a country, but a group of colonies occupying the same continent.

Before it was called Australia, the western half was known as New Holland, and the eastern half was New South Wales.

It typically takes three hours to fly from North Australia to South Australia. The flight time is dependent upon the exact locations and the type of aircraft.

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Due directly to the gold rushes, Victoria's population grew from a new colony of about 76,000 people in 1851, to the most prosperous colony with the largest population of 540,000 people by 1861. Victoria's population represented 45% of the Australian population.

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This was Robert O'Hara Burke and William Wills. Theirs was the most expensive, well equipped expedition ever mounted. They left Royal Park, Melbourne on 20 August 1860 and made it to the Gulf of Carpentaria, but died at Cooper Creek on their return journey, sometime in June-July 1861.

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Life in the 1950's was different compared to the 2000's. In the 1950's, people were beginning to overcome the terrible World War II that occured in the early 1940's. The fashion was fairly basic, but more evolved from the early 1900's, the music people listened to was very jazzy, the entertainment they enjoyed were things such as movies, going out places and balls with family and friends and also, whoever could afford it, watched TV as it had just come out.

The crime rate was nowhere near as high and people and children did not have the same security worries that we do now. Homes were rarely locked and there was no such thing as security systems and devices. Also, supermarkets and shopping malls/centers had not yet arrived and the corner shop was the place to do your shopping. Milk, bread, and some other products were delivered to your home sometimes still by horse and cart.

Mt Kosciuszko is Australia's highest mainland mountain, reaching an elevation of 2,228m (some sources say 2,229m) above sea level. The mountain was named by Polish explorer Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, after Polish patriot and military leader, Tadeusz Kosciuszko.

South Australia borders the most states and territories in Australia.

South Australia shares borders with Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

there really isn't a word for brother in Australia

Here we mention friends, family, and people we don't know as MATE

there isn't only one gender we use MATE, we use the word with men and women

Some Australians especially new Australians from the mid east do use the expression probably as the result of having seen it used that way in American movie.

Since, obviously, no written records exist detailing how the Aborigines lived thousands of years ago, anthropologists can only speculate, based on Aboriginal painting, middens and other data. It is known that Aborigines lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving from area to area as food dwindled in one region. Tribes would move to where they knew certain foods could be found in different seasons, e.g. the Bogong moths of the high country, the bunya nuts of Queensland, and so on. Aborigines were hunters and gatherers. They gathered yams from under the ground, dug up witchetty grubs and found edible bush fruits. The men hunted for wild animals, which included a variety of mammals, reptiles, birds and fish. Aborigines also used fire to flush out their game, or to regenerate plant growth and renew the landscape.

Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west. A little-known fact is that, although it is separated from the island state of Tasmania by Bass Strait, it actually shares a land border at Boundary Islet in Bass Strait, which lies at 39°12' S.