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Apr 6, 2024 · 豪州、濠洲. 澳洲聯邦 （英語： Commonwealth of Australia [15] ），通稱 澳大利亞 、 澳洲 （ Australia [16] [17] ，縮寫為AU、AUS） [註 3] ，是一個位於 南半球 中北部、 東半球 東部的 議會制君主立憲制 、 聯邦制 國家 。. 全國整體屬於 大洋洲 （並非自成一洲），是該洲 ...
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [15] is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. [b] Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.
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Apr 6, 2024 · 豪州、濠洲. 澳大利亚联邦 （英语： Commonwealth of Australia [15] ），通称 澳大利亚 、 澳洲 （ Australia [16] [17] ，缩写为AU、AUS） [注 3] ，是一个位于 南半球 中北部、 东半球 东部的 议会制君主立宪制 、 联邦制 国家 。. 全国整体属于 大洋洲 （并非自成一洲），是 ...
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Australia's landmass of 7,617,930 square kilometres (2,941,300 sq mi) is on the Indo-Australian plate. The continent of Australia, including the island of Tasmania, was separated from the other continents of the world many millions of years ago. Because of this, many animals and plants live in Australia that do not live anywhere else. These include...
Aboriginal people
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people arrived in Australia about 60,000 years ago or maybe even earlier. Until the arrival of British settlers in 1788, the Aboriginal people lived by hunting and gathering food from the land. They lived in all sorts of climates and managed the land in different ways. An example of Aboriginal land management was the Cumberland Plain where Sydney is now. Every few years the Aboriginal people would burn the grass and small trees.This meant that a lot o...
Terra Australis
In the 1600s, Dutch merchants traded with the islands of Batavia (now Indonesia), to the north of Australia and several different Dutch ships touched on the coast of Australia. The Dutch governor, van Diemen, sent Abel Tasman on a voyage of discovery and he found Tasmania, which he named Van Diemen's Land. Its name was later changed to honour the man who discovered it. The British Government was sure that there must be a very large land in the south, that had not been explored. They sent Capt...
Settlement
In the 1700s, in England, laws were tough, many people were poor and gaols (jails) were full. A person could be sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread. Many people were hanged for small crimes. But usually they were just thrown in gaol. Often they were sent away to the British colonies in America. But by the 1770s, the colonies in America became the United States. They were free from British rule and would not take England's convicts any more, so England needed to find a new and less...
Australia is part of the Commonwealth of Nations. Australia is made up of six states, and two mainland territories. Each state and territory has its own Parliament and makes its own local laws. The Parliament of Australia sits in Canberra and makes laws for the whole country, also known as the Commonwealth or Federation. The Federal government is l...
Australia was colonised by people from Britain, but today people from all over the world live there. English is the main spoken language. Christianity is the main religion, though all religions are accepted and not everybody has a religion. Australia is multicultural: all its people are encouraged to keep their different languages, religions and wa...
Australia is home to many animals and plants that can be found nowhere else on Earth, except perhaps New Guinea. The platypus and the short-beaked echidna are unique, and are two of the only five surviving monotremes. Monotremes are only found in Australia and New Guinea. Koalas, kangaroos, wombats, numbats and many others others, are marsupials. M...
Australia travel informations Archived 2015-03-16 at the Wayback MachineUser generated guide to Australia.- None at federal level
The majority of Australians live in the eastern coastal mainland states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory, which collectively forms 79% of the entire population of Australia (more than three-quarters of all Australians).
The history of Australia is the history of the land and peoples of the continental land mass and offshore territories which now comprise the Commonwealth of Australia.The Commonwealth of Australia came into existence on 1 January 1901 as a federation of former British colonies, however the human history of Australia commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by ...
