Australia

The number of bodies of water in the world will always change. There are probably millions, incuding the minor ones.

The seasons are reversed.

When it is spring or summer in the northern hemisphere, it is the autumn (fall) or the winter in Australia.

This is caused by the northern part of the world being tipped the opposite way (towards or away) from the sun to Australia.

The seasons in Australia and other countries in the Southern Hemisphere are reversed from those in the Northern Hemisphere. When it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and so forth. For example, the Australian summer starts in December, while winter begins in July.

The "correct" Australian slang term is strine.

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For Australia was created in 1915.

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Although Australia began as a British prison settlement, the fact that it was a young, free continent with no major religious or political prejudices was enough to encourage people from a variety of other countries to settle here. Germans and Prussians sought to escape the religious persecution in Germany in the 1840s. The Irish sought a better lifestyle after the potato famine wiped out their livelihood. Many other came because they saw opportunities in Australia that were simply unavailable to them elsewhere. True multiculturalism, that is, the bringing together of a number of diverse races within one country, arguably began with the goldrushes. All of a sudden, people from all cultures - including the Chinese - joined the influx to Australia, often coming in groups large enough to exert a cultural influence on the rest of society.

The largest hospital in Australia is currently the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, located in Herston, Brisbane. The original hospital was built in 1867, and the Women's Hospital was built at the same site in 1938. The two hospitals merged to become one in 2003.

Some famous Australian inventions include the electronic pacemaker, the black box flight recorder, spray-on skin, and the medical application of penicillin. Another invention is the electric drill, invented by Arthur James.

The "outback" of Australia is a vast, remote, very area. Only about 10% of the Australian population live in the outback. The last census in 2006 reported 690,000 citizens living in the outback.

Australia and also Indian Subcontinent

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Actually, the continent of Australia is not named after the country. The country is named after the continent. The name "Australia" comes from the Latin term Terra Australis meaning "land of the south". Often known as Terra Australis Incognita, i.e. "the unknown land of the South", it was the name given to the unknown continent believed to exist south of the equator. This unknown land was included on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century. Matthew Flinders, who was the first known European explorer to circumnavigate the Australian continent in 1802, is credited with assigning the name 'Australia' to this continent although it did not immediately receive universal approval. He first proposed the name "Terra Australis" be adopted instead of "New Holland", the name by which the Dutch knew Australia, or "New South Wales", which Cook had named the eastern half when he claimed it for England. In 1814 when Flinders published his work 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', he used the term 'Australia' within the book. Around 1818, Governor Lachlan Macquarie, arguably the most influential man in Australia at the time, also requested that the name "Australia" be officially ascribed. Australia as a country was not officially named until the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia at Federation in 1901.

There are 26,830 backyard pools in Austrailia.

To dial New Zealand from Australia, dial 001164, followed by the area code without the initial 0, followed by the local number.

For example, to dial Dunedin (03) 4939151, dial 001164 3 4939151.

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More desert. To the west of the Great Victoria Desert is semi-arid mallee of Western Australia, to the north are the Gibson desert and Little Sandy Desert, to the south is the Nullarbor Plain, a flat, almost treeless expanse of aridness, and to the east are the Tirari and Sturt's Stony Deserts.

to escape traffic, overcrowding, and enviromental problems in northern cities

Because major gold discoveries were made in Victoria, this newly separated state suddenly found itself very wealthy. Businesses boomed, together with the population, and more people settled further out from the established towns, sparking interest and enthusiasm in exploration. All of the colonies experienced wealth in some form as a result of the goldrushes, whether by more business or immigration.

Gold brought wealth to Australia, and with it, a new sense of identity, and the independence and confidence to push for Federation and the establishent of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Basically, Australia no longer needed to be "piggybacked" by England any more.