On AUSTRALIA DAY I thought Id post 10 interesting facts about Australia you may not know :-) 1. The name Australia comes from the Latin Australis which means of the South 2. The Australian Alps receive more snow than Switzerland. 3. More than 85% of Australians live within 50km of the coast. 4. The word selfie originated in Australia 5. The first photos from the 1969 moon landing were beamed to the rest of the world from a tracking station near Canberra. 6. The world’s oldest fossil, which is about 3.4 billion years old, was found in Australia. 7. Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts. 8. Australia is one of the only countries where we eat the animals on our coat of arms. 9. In 1975, Australia had a government shutdown, which ended with the Queen firing everyone and the government starting again. 10. Despite sharing the same verbal language, Australian, British and American sign language are all completely different languages.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:24:14 +0000