Welcome to Australia
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Автор: Овсянникова И.В.
Australia is situated south of Asia,
between the Pacific and the Indian Oceans.
Australia is a continent, a country and
an island at the same time. Australia
is located in the southern hemisphere.
- OFFITIAL NAME : Commonwealth of Australia
- CAPITAL: Canberra
- TOTAL AREA: 7,700,000 sq.km
- POPULATION: 20 million people
- HEAD OF STATE: Queen Elizabeth II represented by Governor-General
- FORM OF GVERNMENT: Constitutional monarchy
- PORTS: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
- LONGEST RIVER: the Darling (2,740 km)
- HIGHEST POINT: Mount Kosciusko (2,230 m)
- NATURAL RESOURCES: coal, zink, nickel, gold, wool
- NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Australian Day , 16 January (1788)
- MONEY: basic unit – Australian dollar
- NATIONAL SYMBOLS: Kangaroo and Emu
- NATIONAL ANTHEM: “Waltzing Matilda”
Some facts
Captain James Cook discovered Australia in
1770. He was sent to discover the
huge land that many people believed was
south of the equator. He landed south
of present day Sydney in New South
Wales. He claimed this part of the
land for the King of England.
In 1851 gold was discovered about 300
km west of Sydney. People rushed to
the gold fields to find their fortunes.
This attracted robbers called bushrangers.
Aborigines
The Aborigines are the Australian natives
that had been living there for thousands
of years before the first Europeans came
to Australia in the 1600s.
Australia's coat of arms – the official
emblem of the Australian Government –
was granted by George V in 1912.
The arms consist of a shield containing
the badges of the six states. The
supporters are native Australian fauna –
a kangaroo and an emu. A yellow-flowered
native plant, wattle, also appears in
the design.
The flag of Australia is the only
one to fly over a whole continent.
The small Union Jack represents the historical
link with Britain, the large seven-pointed
star represents the six States and Territories,
and the small stars from the Southern
Cross – a prominent feature of the
southern hemisphere night sky.
Canberra is the capital of Australia. It is
very young city.
Population is about 310,000 people.
Canberra
Capitol Hill
Canberra Fountain
Capital of New South Wales. Leading industrial city. Population: 3,200,000 people.
Sydney
St. Maria Cathedral
The Harbour Bridge
Sydney
Sydney AMP Tower
Opera House
Capital of Victoria. The world’s most livable city. Population: 3.200.000
Train Station
Melbourne Bridge
Old House
Melbourne
Capital of Queensland. It is a year-round vocation place. Population is
about 1,400,000 people.
Brisbane Bridge
Brisbane Skyscrapers
Brisbane
Brisbane
Capital of South Australia. A pretty and industrial city. Population: 1,100,000 people.
Victoria Square Fountain
Gold Beach
Adelaide
Adelaide
Capital of Western Australia. One of the best climates in Australia. Population: 1.200.000 people.
Perth
King’s Park
Perth Skyscrapers
Capital of island-state Tasmania. Winters
are very cold. Population of about 200,000.
Hobart
Bay of Fires
Coles Bay
Remarkable Cave
Lavender Farm
Warumbungle NP
Crowdy Bay NP
Crowdy Bay NP
Cockatoo NP
Natinal Parks
It’s the world’s largest coral
reef (over 2000 km). It stretches along
the east coast of Queensland. It’s made up of over 2900 individual
reefs very close
to each other.
Great Barrier Reef
Australians really love nature. They try
to protect their nature and their animals.
How do you say it in Russian?
British
Australian
barbecue
barbie
kangaroo
roo
mosquito
mozzie
chicken
chook
candy
lollie
slippers
thongs
TV
tellie
girl
sheila
form
year
sheep
jumbuck
cinema
pictures
postbox
letterbox
trainers
runners
freeway
main road
The First people in Australia were Aborigines.
They arrived there about 12,000 years
before from southern Asia. They had very
rich forms of art, painting, song, poetry
and mythology. The lives of aborigines
stayed almost the same for thousands of
years until the Europeans came to live
in Australia in 1778.
In 1770 J. Cook landed in eastern
Australia and declared that it belonged
to Britain. In 1778, the British government
began sending the first prisoners to Australia.
Overtime many people arrived from Britain
and Europe. Life was difficult. There
was very little water and the climate
was very hard.
The Europeans suffered a lot in Australia
but the Aborigines suffered a lot more.
Europeans stole their land and killed
thousand of Aborigines. They also brought
new diseases with them. In parts of
Australia, not one Aborigine survived. Today
aborigines continue to live in Australia
but there culture in under threat. In
1770, there were about 300,000 Aborigines.
Now, there are 120,000. It is becoming
harder and harder for them to continue
their traditional way to live.
Today Australia is a modern, industrial
country, independent from Britain since 1931.
The Commonwealth of Australia consists of
6 states and two provinces. It is
the world’s biggest producer of wool,
bauxite and important producer of wheat,
meat, sugar and fruit.
The first Australians
The End