Australia Facts You Might Not Know!
1 - The Australian Alps receive more snow than the Swiss Alps. ❄️🏔️
2 - 90% of Australians live on the coast. 🌊🏝️
3 - Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world. 🌿💨
4 - The Great Barrier Reef is the planet’s largest ecosystem. It includes around 3,000 reefs and can be seen from space! 🐠🐚
5 - Australia has over 60 wine regions. 🍷🍇
6 - Fraser Island in Queensland is the largest sand island in the world. 🏝️
7 - The Indian Pacific train covers the longest straight stretch of track in the world. 🚂
8 - The Great Ocean Road is the world’s largest war memorial. 🛣️
9 - 80% of Australian animals are endemic (found nowhere else). 🦘🦎
10 - Australia features the longest golf course globally — over 1,350 km in length. ⛳
11 - The country is home to 21 of the world’s 25 most venomous snakes. 🐍
12 - It would take about 29 years to visit a different Australian beach every day — there are 10,685 beaches total! 🏖️
13 - Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. 🌏
14 - 91% of Australia is covered by native vegetation. 🌿
15 - 33% of Australians were born overseas. 🌍
16 - Australia has no active volcanoes. 🌋❌
17 - The country has the longest fence in the world: the Dingo Fence, stretching 5,614 km, built to keep dingoes away from fertile land. 🏜️🐕
18- The Australian dollar is among the most advanced currencies — waterproof, made of polymer, and very difficult to counterfeit. 💰💳
19 - Australia is the largest country in Oceania. 🇦🇺
20 - The world’s oldest fossil, 3.4 billion years old, was discovered in Australia. 🦠
21 - Australia hosts over 1,500 species of spiders. 🕷️😱
22 - And perhaps most impressively… Australia is home to some of the world’s oldest continuous Indigenous cultures.
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