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Australia - Amazing Facts
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Australia is one of the most diverse places on earth, We have beaches, deserts, rainforests, snow fields, tropical paradises. With some of the most unusual animals and plant life...all which make this great continent a  wonderful place to visit.
 

Amazing Fact No.1

Being the sixth largest country on earth, Australia is around the same size of the 48 mainland states of the USA, in-fact its double the size of Europe and has the lowest population density found anywhere on earth- with the exception of Antarctica- not counting the seals and penguins.

 Amazing Fact No. 2

Australian's always tease their cousins the New Zealanders for being a bit too friendly to their sheep, but did you know Australia is the Sheep capital of the world?  There are over 140 million sheep, that's about 20 per person. Mostly fluffy merinos, which produce more than 70 percent of the world's wool. - that's nothing to baaaaa about!
 

 

 

 

The Kangaroo is on the Australian Coat of arms with the Emu. Both earned their place by being two Australian creatures which cant move backwards
 

 
 

 

Did you know?

So the story goes, the plans for a railway station in Bombay mixed up with Melbourne by a London architect to Melbourne's Flinders Street Station was built of Bombay's blueprints
 
 
Amazing Fact No. 3
Nothing to moo about either,,  Yes Australia is home not only to 140 million sheep it also has 24 million head of cattle.. think of all the burgers!. Australia is the worlds largest exporter of quality beef.
 
Amazing Fact No. 4
No room for Kangaroos,,, Well with that many sheep and cattle you wouldn't think there would be any room for the Australian Icon...the Kangaroo... Well it couldn't be further than the truth.. there are estimated to be 40 million of these fury marsupials jumping around our continent.. Many more than it was estimated being here when white settlement started way back in the 1780's
 
Amazing Fact No. 5.
How far is that straight  line? Well if you were in the Nullarbor. .'it's a bloody long way' in-fact the longest straight railway line in the world stretches the Nullarbor Plain from Watson in South Australia to Nurina in Western Australia and doesn't make a bend for 478 kilometers.
 
Amazing Fact No. 6.
Don't fence me in... well Australia you guessed it has the longest fence. It's known as the Dingo Fence and runs through central Queensland and is designed to keep sheep safe from our native dog the Dingo... the fence is about 6 feet high and stretches over 5500 kilometers.