Interesting facts on sunny Australia

• Australia was once called New Holland
• In Australia light bulbs are called globes
• Ayers Rock means meeting place in the Aboriginal language
• Lonely Planet is based in Melbourne, Australia
• Perth is Australia's windiest city
• Australians have approximately 380,000 sq metres of land per person, yet 91% live in urban areas
• Australia has more than 1,500 species of spiders
• There are 6,000 species of flies in Australia
• Australia has the largest number of wild one humped camels in the world
• Australia has nine sheep for every one person
• The only continent occupied by only one nation is Australia
• Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth
• 95% of the world's opals are mined in Australia
• The biggest pure-gold nugget was found in Australia in 1869 and weighed 156 pounds
• The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest organic construction on earth
• The fingerprints of koala bears and humans are so similar they could be confused at a crime scene
  
  

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