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Australia is the only continent that is also a country and an island.
Canberra is the capital of Australia. This is the Parliament house in Canberra.
Australia’s flag has the British Union Flag, five
stars for the Southern Cross
constellation, and a large star for
the commonwealth.
Australia’s Coats of Arm
It has a kangaroo and an emu; wattle blossoms; a shield with coats of arms of
the six states; and a star for the Commonwealth.
The Five States in Australia
Western Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
New South Wales
South Australia
Tasmania
The Look of the Land
These hills are considered mountains in Australia.
The Great Western Plateau
The plants here are mostly drought-resistant mulga scrub.
The Gibber Desert
This desert gets about 5 inches of rain a year.It is covered with wind polished
stones. Gibber is the aboriginal word for stones.
The Eastern Highlands
This is one of the many
water falls in Southern
Queensland that pours
into a mossy canyon.
City Life
This is a busy railroad station in Perth. Perth is a city on the southwest coast in Australia.
This is the city of
Melbourne. Almost
All of Australia’s people live in cities.
These cities have
shops, restaurants, and tall buildings just like those in the U.S.
This is the Sydney Opera House. It is one of the most famous buildings in Sydney.
Life on the Cattle and Sheep Station
The best-known job in Australia is farming. The wide, open spaces of the countryside are the perfect place for
raising animals such as cattle and sheep.
The Outback
It is mainly deserts and grasslands on which cattle and sheep graze.
Sheep and cows are raised by the ranchers in Australia.
This man has a sheep station in the Outback. A station is like a ranch. He has thousands of sheep on his station. His workers uses dogs to find his
sheep, and they often ride motorcycles to round up the sheep.
Aborigines have lived in Australia for thousands of years. Some of them work in the Outback and
have their own cattle stations.
Much of south and central Australia is very hot and dry. It is called the “Outback.” Alice Spring is the biggest town in the Outback.
Aborigines are descendants of Australia's first settlers. They
came to Australia thousands of
years ago. Their history is similar to the American
Indians. Most Aborigines live in rural areas. But recently more
young people are moving to the
cities.
Aborigine boys playing at corroborees just as you play at doing grown-up things. Corroborees are special tribal dances where the aborigines retell stories. The dancers chant and stamp their feet to the sound of pipes called didjeridooos.
Long ago, aborigines believe the earth was flat and empty. Then, their world of light and dark, rocks and plants, birds and animals was formed by the deeds of a race of mysterious creatures. This was the creation of Dreamtime. They drew these pictures on bark and cave walls.
A Bark Painting
This painting was done on the inside of the bark of a Eucalyptus
tree.
Can you find two
kangaroos, a marsupial rat, a goanna, an emu, a long
neck turtle,and a straw bag?
Aboriginal Bark Painting
The Ayer’s Rock belongs to the Aborigines. Their name for it is Uluru. The cave painting done by the Aborigines in the caves at Uluru are very famous.
The Ayers Rock is the largest one-piece rock in the world.
This is one of the cave drawing on the cave wall at Uluru (or Ayer’s Rock.)
Work
In
Australia The wool and meat from these animals will be
sold to people all over the world.
Cowboys from
Victoria
This is an opal miner in Cober
Pedy.
Barbeque in Australia-(Salad, steak, drink)
How does it compare to our cookouts?
Cattleman cooks outdoors in Victoria.
Australians eat many of the
same foods we do. Meat,
potatoes, and bread are all
favorite dishes. Fresh
vegetables and fruit are
popular, too. They also like
foods from other
countries.
Cooking Noodles at a market
in Darwin.
Pastimes
Yacht Race
Camel Race at Alice Springs
Lifeguards
Team sports are very popular. Rugby is very rough and dangerous. Cricket is a little like American baseball.The men below are playing football.
School in Australia
Australian
children start
school when
they are about five
years old. They learn math,
reading, science,
and writing just as you do.
Students in the outback live to far away to attend regular
schools. Instead,
they learn through
schools of the air. Students
receive and turn in their homework by mail. Teachers
and students
talk to each other on two–way radios.
Animals in
Australia
Marsupials give birth to tiny,
underdeveloped young. The young
continue to develop, often in
pouches, or folds of skin , on their
mother’s belly. Many of Australian mammals belong to
this group. Marsupials feed at
night.Mountain Possum
The Koalas eat eucalyptus leaves and sleep in the branches of eucalyptus trees.
With her baby safe in her lap,
the mother koala reaches for food. The
marsupials eat only the leaves
of the eucalyptus trees. The leaves give them all the water they need. They live in the
treetops of the eucalyptus
tree.
The “Wallaby
”
is part of the
kangaroo family,
but smaller.
This wallaby
is unusual. Do you know why?
During a quarrel –real
or just in play- one kangaroo uses it tail as a prop
while it tries to kick the
other. Kangaroos
usually lives together
peacefully.
The baby joey returns to its
mother’s pouch for food and
protection.
Kangaroos often get hit by cars on the roads, so cars have “roo” bars in front of their engines. This bar protects the engines and lights if a kangaroos
suddenly hop into the road.
Patches of white mark the thick woolly coat of a spotted cuscus. This round-faced
animal has a yellowish nose
and bulging yellow eyes. He
uses his tail as an extra hand. A
cuscus is a marsupial about the size of a cat.
Some people mistake them for
monkeys.
Built for burrowing, the wombat waddles on short, powerful legs. Wombats use
mostly their strong front legs to dig tunnels. The wombat is a marsupials.
The glider is a member of the
possum family. A glider stretches out flaps of skin that catch the air
the way wings do. It can travel the length of a
football field. It feeds at night on leaves, fruit, sap
and insects.
Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. Platypuses and
echidnas are the only monotremes.
A platypus,
is a strange animal
that has a bill and webbed
feet like a duck,fur
like a otter, and a tail like a beaver. It hatches it babies
from eggs.
A young echidna lies curled in a
flap of skin on its mother’s belly. It won’t be there much longer. Its
spines have begun to appear. Once they start
poking the mother, she will
put the your echidna in a hollow log or
among rocks and care for it there.
A flock of emus race through a field. These huge birds run fast- as fast as 30 miles an hour- and far. But they can’t
fly.
Moving gently, a male emu
tends a nest full of green eggs. After the female emu lays the eggs, the male
takes over. He hatches them and takes care
of the chicks
The female bowerbird watches the male. He decorates the nest with bits of
colored materials.
The
frilled lizard strikes a
scary pose atop a termite mound.
This reptile may grow
up to 3 feet long.
An angry frill-necked lizard ruffles its frills to frighten an enemy.
This is the Tasmanian devil. A disturbed Tasmanian devil snarls and will freeze in a threatening posture and stay that way
until the enemy goes away. They eat mostly dead animals.
The Great Barrier ReefIt is the world’s
largest coral reef. The
reef is about 1,250 miles.
Its beauty attracts many skin divers.
-Great Barrier Reef: This is what you might see
through a glass-bottom boat.
A female weedy sea dragon and her young drift through the water, pushed along by transparent fins.
Bye! I hope you liked your visit to Australia.