Презентация на тему по теме Австралия

Pacific and the Indian Oceans. Australia is a continent,

a country and an island at the same time. Australia is located in the southern hemisphere.

7,700,000 sq.km
POPULATION: 20 million people
HEAD OF STATE: Queen Elizabeth

II represented by Governor-General
FORM OF GVERNMENT: Constitutional monarchy
PORTS: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
LONGEST RIVER: the Darling (2,740 km)
HIGHEST POINT: Mount Kosciusko (2,230 m)
NATURAL RESOURCES: coal, zink, nickel, gold, wool
NATIONAL HOLIDAY: Australian Day , 16 January (1788)
MONEY: basic unit – Australian dollar
NATIONAL SYMBOLS: Kangaroo and Emu
NATIONAL ANTHEM: “Waltzing Matilda”

Some facts

was sent to discover the huge land that many

people believed was south of the equator. He landed south of present day Sydney in New South Wales. He claimed this part of the land for the King of England.

In 1851 gold was discovered about 300 km west of Sydney. People rushed to the gold fields to find their fortunes. This attracted robbers called bushrangers.

had been living there for thousands of years before

the first Europeans came to Australia in the 1600s.

of the Australian Government – was granted by George

V in 1912. The arms consist of a shield containing the badges of the six states. The supporters are native Australian fauna – a kangaroo and an emu. A yellow-flowered native plant, wattle, also appears in the design.

The flag of Australia is the only one to fly over a whole continent. The small Union Jack represents the historical link with Britain, the large seven-pointed star represents the six States and Territories, and the small stars from the Southern Cross – a prominent feature of the southern hemisphere night sky.

very young city.
Population is about 310,000 people.
Canberra
Capitol Hill
Canberra

Fountain

Population: 3,200,000 people.

Sydney
St. Maria Cathedral
The Harbour Bridge
Sydney
Sydney AMP

Tower

Opera House

Population: 3.200.000
Train Station
Melbourne Bridge
Old House
Melbourne

place. Population is about 1,400,000 people.
Brisbane Bridge
Brisbane Skyscrapers
Brisbane
Brisbane

city. Population: 1,100,000 people.
Victoria Square Fountain
Gold Beach
Adelaide
Adelaide

climates in Australia. Population: 1.200.000 people.
Perth
King’s Park
Perth Skyscrapers

Population of about 200,000.
Hobart
Bay of Fires
Coles Bay
Remarkable Cave
Lavender

Farm

km). It stretches along the east coast of Queensland.

It’s made up of over 2900 individual
reefs very close
to each other.

Great Barrier Reef

their nature and their animals.

arrived there about 12,000 years before from southern Asia.

They had very rich forms of art, painting, song, poetry and mythology. The lives of aborigines stayed almost the same for thousands of years until the Europeans came to live in Australia in 1778.
In 1770 J. Cook landed in eastern Australia and declared that it belonged to Britain. In 1778, the British government began sending the first prisoners to Australia. Overtime many people arrived from Britain and Europe. Life was difficult. There was very little water and the climate was very hard.
The Europeans suffered a lot in Australia but the Aborigines suffered a lot more. Europeans stole their land and killed thousand of Aborigines. They also brought new diseases with them. In parts of Australia, not one Aborigine survived. Today aborigines continue to live in Australia but there culture in under threat. In 1770, there were about 300,000 Aborigines. Now, there are 120,000. It is becoming harder and harder for them to continue their traditional way to live.
Today Australia is a modern, industrial country, independent from Britain since 1931. The Commonwealth of Australia consists of 6 states and two provinces. It is the world’s biggest producer of wool, bauxite and important producer of wheat, meat, sugar and fruit.

The first Australians