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Interesting Facts about Australia

Trivia, oddities, and curious tidbits about Australia.

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22 curious facts about Australia.

When a child loses a tooth they put their tooth under thier pillow and wait for the Tooth Fairy to take their tooth and bring them money.
When an Aborigianl child loses a tooth thier family helps them put their tooth inside the shoot of a pandanus plant so that when the pandanus grows into a tree, their tooth will grow too. There are spirits in the pandanus leaves that will look after them while their tooth is growing.
The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world. It lies beneath the shallow ocean waters of Australia's east coast.
The roof of the Sydney Opera House looks like sails on a boat.

Ayers Rock rises from the desert in the middle of Australia. It is far from any large city.
Australia is a federation of six states (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia) and two territories (the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory, where Canberra is located).
The name of Canberra, Australia's capital, comes from the Aboriginal word for meeting place. It is located between Sydney and Melbourne.
An American architect, Walter Burley Griffin, won an international competition to design the city of Canberra.
The colourful coral of the Great Barrier Reef is made from a liquid emitted by trillions of tiny sea creatures called coral polyps. This liquid eventually hardens and becomes shell-like. There have been campaigns to preserve the Great Barrier Reef, since its popularity as a tourist sight has led to its deterioration.
The Trans-Australian railway line, the second longest in the world, was built between 1912 and 1917 to join Western and Southern Australia. The surveyors who mapped out the route used camels to travel across the harsh desert terrain of Southern Australia, including the Nullarbor Plain (nullarbor means no trees in Latin).