The land down under

Australia - the world’s smallest continent and the sixth largest country in the world. Common knowledge. Legends of Terra Australis Incognita. The flag's original design. Unusual Australian facts: history, convicts, natural environment. Aimed at friends.

Рубрика География и экономическая география
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Язык русский
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11. Cascades Female Factory was an Australian prison in South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The site comprises five yards, cemetery and outbuildings and is contained within a rectangular city block.

12. Australian Lyre Bird (Лирохвосты) - is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, that form the genus, Menura, and the family Menuridae.

13. Echidna (ехидна) - also known as spiny anteaters, belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals.

14. Purple wallaby (кенгуру-валлаби)- was first classified in 1924 by Albert Sherbourne Le Souef, then director of the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, who noted a strange purple colouration around the neck as well as skull differences separating it from other rock-wallaby species.

15. The Fierce Snake (Тайпан или Жестокая змея)- is native to Australia and is regarded as the most venomous land snake in the world based on LD50 values in mice.

16. The Wombats (Вомбаты) - are Australian marsupials; they are short-legged, muscular quadrupeds, approximately 1 metre (39 in) in length with a short, stubby tail.

17. Tasmanian Devil (Тасманийский дьявол)- is a carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae, now found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania.

18. Kangaroos (кенгуру)- is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning 'large foot').

19. Emus (страус Эму)- is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius.

20. Monotreme (Однопроходные)- are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria).

21. Platypus (утконос) - is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania.

22. Box Jelly fish (Кубомедузы)- are cnidarian invertebrates distinguished by their cube-shaped medusae.

23. Stonefish (Бородавчатка)- is a genus of fish of the family Synanceiidae whose members are venomous, dangerous, and even fatal to humans.

24. Sydney Funnelweb spiders (лейкопаутинный паук) - are venomous spiders of the family Hexathelidae

25. Lung fish (Двоякодышащие) - are freshwater fish belonging to the Subclass Dipnoi.

26. Triassic period (Триасовый период)- is a geologic period and system that extends from about 250 to 200 Mya (million years ago).

27. Gold Rush (золотая лихорадка)- is a period of feverish migration of workers to an area that has had a dramatic discovery of gold.

28. Don Bradman (Дональд Брэдмен) - (27 August 1908 - 25 February 2001), often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time.

29. IOC (Международный олимпийский комитет)- The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president.

30. The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race.

31. GDP (ВВП)- Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period.

32. Belangalo State Forest is a planted forest in the Australian state of New South Wales; its total area is about 3800 hectares.

33. Natalie Tran (Натали Тран)- (born 24 July 1986) is a video blogger on YouTube from Sydney, Australia, using the nickname communitychannel.

34. Chopper Reid (born 17 November 1954) is an Australian ex-criminal, who wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels.

35. Wowser (строгий пуританин)- was originally a slang expression, most commonly heard in Australian and New Zealand English.

36. Cascade Female Factory was an Australian prison in South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The site comprises five yards, cemetery and outbuildings and is contained within a rectangular city block.

37. The Gallipoli (Галлимпольский полуостров)- is located in Turkish Thrace (or East Thrace), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.

38. Pomes - Australians refer to English people as Poms or Pome. This is an acronym for Prisoners of Mother England.

39. Blue Mountains (Голубые горы)- is a mountainous region in New South Wales, Australia. It borders on Sydney's metropolitan area, its foothills starting approximately 50 kilometres west of the state capital.

40. Crocodile Dundee (Данди по прозвищу «Крокодил»)- is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City.

Sources

1. http://ru.wikipedia.org

2. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107296.html

3. http://australia-ru.com/

4. http://funfacter.hubpages.com/hub/Fun-Facts-About-Australia

5. http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/fun-facts-about-australia.html

6. http://wanttoknowit.com/interesting-facts-about-australia/

7. http://www.australianhistory.org/australian-facts

8. http://www.about-australia.com/facts/

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