Téma: Australia
Predmet: Angličtina
Zaslal(a): terca.jakubova
Geography
-the smallest kontinent and the biggest island in the world
-situated between the Pacifik and the Indian Ocean
-two great deserts: the Great Sandy Desert, the Great Victoria Desert
-Ayres rock : the larges piece of rock in the world (335m high)
-two big rivers: Darling, Murray
-lakes: Eyre, Torrens, Gairdner
-highest mountain: Mount Kosciusko (2228 m)
-many different kinds of climate: tropical, continental, sub-tropical, temperate
-the south-east coast – warm summers and mild Winter
-Australian Alps – has snow almou full year
-The Great Divinig Range
Animals
-kangaroo, koala, emu, platypus
Population
-discovered by the Dutch in the 17th century
-James Cook explored the coasts of the island in 1770
-the settlement began in 1788
-first inhabitans =Australian Aborigines à lived as hunters using boomerangs for hunting à many of them died or lived in government reserves
-first colonist usually bought some sheep, hired a few men and buildt a house in thein landàthese early farmers were called squatters. In the sekond half of the 19th century many of them became rich and their farms were patrolled
– in Australan English a lot of words are made by shortening everyday words
-size is 8 mil square kilometres and 17 mil of inhabitans
-sheep and cattle farmeres live on isolated farms called stations
-the farmers don´t often go to torsàthey contact thein friends, partners and shopkeepers by means of radio
Political system
-indetendent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations
-the head is a British monarch represented by the Governon-Generak
-consist of six states and two territoriesà each state has own government and capital city
-official name is the Commonwealth of Australia
-established in 1901
-federal parliment is consist of the Senate and the House of Representatives
Economy
-rich country: iron ore, oil, natural gas, coal, gold, silver
-producer of pool
-export is wheat, beef, muttom, minerals
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