Furthermore, 80% of the plants and animals found here exists nowhere else. It is believed that 80% of spiders and a third of the insects living here are totally unknown to science. Like if sharks, crocodiles, snakes, and cassowaries were not enough.Īnd still, a lot of the species which wonder this land are yet to be discovered. Introducing the funnel-web spider, the box jellyfish, the blue-ringed octopus, the paralysis tick and the stonefish, all of them having in common two things: being the most lethal creatures of their species and being found in Australia. Life here evolved in an extremely deadly way too. Kangaroo, the most representative australian animal, doesn’t run or canter as most of the animals do, but jumps instead. The Great Barrier Reef, the bigger living organism, dominates the north-east coast. Because of this, here life evolved in a way like nowhere else. Generally speaking, Australia remained long enough untouched by humans.
Thus Canberra was born.īeing so young, this on purpose built capital is of course relatively small compared to Sydney (~5 millions) it has less than 12 times inhabitants (~400.000) and it’s only the 8th Australian largest city, which is already quite funny for a capital! Simply, a new city was going to be built somewhere between Melbourne and Sydney and it was going to become the capital. Because of indecision and to make nobody angry (or maybe exactly with this intent) a compromise was reached. The dispute was between Melbourne and Sydney which were (and probably still are) the most important cities. Actually, it was planned and built only a bit more than 100 years ago, when Australia still didn’t have a capital and one had to be chosen. “Hell yeah! I know it was Syd…no wait, Can-what?”Ĭanberra is a city somewhere in the south-est, “not so far away” from Melbourne and Sidney. The major export of Aust….yeah ok, I’m getting bored of myself alread, let’s talk about some unusual things instead!įirst thing first! The capital of Australia is…*drumrolls*…Canberra! It consists of the mainland, the island of Tasmania and a huge amount of other small islands. So Australia, a big land somewhere in the south hemisphere. But today we are gonna learn something more about this awesome continent. That was more or less all the knowledge I had of Australia till a while ago. So actually, what do you know about Australia? Think about it, what do you know about this large, dry and hot continent? In fact, it barely makes it in the news excluding during new year’s eve, when as one of the first continent to enter the new year, its celebrations and fireworks are showed, I can’t reckon last time I heard news Australia related. Australia, the enormous island-continent that we all know.
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