Interesting facts about Australia

Going on a trip to another country, it is necessary to study it from the inside, having learned the most basic and necessary. Awareness is the key to a good rest. If you are going to fly to Australia, then we propose to read our article, in which we will tell the most interesting facts and the most reliable information about Australia.

Interesting about mainland Australia

  1. In Australia, the largest number of poisonous animals, many of which can kill a person unnoticeably. And the most terrible thing is that antidotes from most animal poisons do not exist. Hence the moral - while in Australia, carefully look around and under your feet.
  2. We continue the theme of animals. In Australia, the number of local sheep is many times greater than the number of inhabitants of this country. Statistics show that the sheep number is about 150 million, while the population is only 20 million. Hence follows another interesting fact about Australia, relating to the records. To protect the sheep from dingo dogs, which in these places are very many, the Australians erected a wall called the "Dog Fence". This fence divided the entire land into two parts: one was given to the power of the dogs, the other to the sheep. It is noteworthy that today this fence is the longest such structure in the whole world. Its length even surpassed the Great Wall of China and today it is 5614 km.
  3. We pass to the rabbits. From the lessons of geography, we remember a little that Australia and rabbits are somehow connected. We tell how. More than 150 years ago, thanks to the colonists, the first rabbits arrived here, which were used in households for what purpose. But then something went wrong, and as a result, for more than 100 years, the local population has been struggling with these furry animals, which now even more than sheep, the bill is already billions.
  4. The animals talked about, now you can go to people. On average, local women, not from Aboriginal people, live about 82 years, men slightly less - only 77. Strangely, but the fact is: the native indigenous population lives 20 years less.
  5. Australia is a law-abiding country. World statistics show that local people know better than even the citizens of the rest of the world, even sometimes, sometimes absurd and ridiculous laws . For example, once in Australia, the law that prohibits swimming on public beaches. Laws are respected, but Australia remains a country whose residents are so passionate that they took their mainland to the top spot in poker costs. They are given as much as 20% of the cost of this game from the world piggy bank.
  6. Now go to the beautiful and talk about nature. In the absence of cloud cover, in the night sky of Australia anyone who wishes can see more than 5,500 stars without special devices. And the Australian Alps are so unique that they were struck by the fact that there are more snow on their territory from time to time than in Switzerland itself.

So we told everything that we would like to share with you. And the rest of the strangeness and features you already know yourself, being on the ground.