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Australia

  1. Australia was once called New Holland?
  2. In Australia light bulbs are called globes?
  3. Ayers Rock means meeting place in the Aboriginal language?
  4. Lonely Planet is based in Melbourne Australia?
  5. Australians have about 380,000 sq m of land/per person. Yet 91% live in urban areas?
  6. Australia has more than 1500 species of spiders?
  7. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth?
  8. 95 percent of the world's opals are mined in Australia?
  9. Australia has the biggest number of wild one humped camels in the world?
  10. The biggest pure-gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 156 pounds?
  11. Australia use to have stamps that actually look like gems?
  12. The first time South Africa beat Australia in a cricket game was in Adelaide in 1910-1911?
  13. The only continent occupied by only one nation is Australia?
  14. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth?
  15. Australia has more than 1500 species of spiders?
  16. There are 6000 species of flies in Australia?
  17. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest organic construction on earth?
  18. A billabong is a stagnant body of backwater attached to a river or a stream?
  19. QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territories Airline Service?
  20. Australia is the world's driest continent?
  21. In Australia a banana bender means that a person comes from Queensland?
  22. It was an Australian meteorologist who first began to give tropical storms women's names at the end of the 19th century?
  23. Melbourne in Australia has, after Athens, the largest Greek population in the world?