Geography : Australia trivia

Geography : Australia

» “Wet” means “simpleton” in Australian slang. The Wet is the rainy season in Northern Australia.

» About one fifth of Australia is covered by its eleven deserts.

» Arguably the largest state in the world, Western Australia covers one-third of the Australian continent. It spans over 2.5 million square kilometers (1 million square miles).

» Australia is divided into two territories and six states.

» Australia is the smallest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent in the World. It is the only country which is also a whole continent — 18.6 million people live here.

» Australia’s Ayers Rock is the largest rock in the world. It rises out of the middle of the country with a diameter of 5½ miles around its base and a height of 1,000 feet.

» Australia’s Great Barrier Reef stretches for 1,242 miles along the coast of Queensland. It is a chain of small islands and more than 2,500 reefs.

» Australia's city of Sydney began as a penal colony in 1788; for the next 60 years, it received the criminal and persecuted people of British society.