Victoria

 The garden state – huge botanic gardens

 Rainforests, nature, cliffs, deserts
 Cruise down the river Murray
 The oldest, the 1st colony, settlement
 Golden rush in 1850s

 Melbourne – cricket ground, royal botanic garden, large tram network

 12 Apostles – rocks – collection of limestones

 Gippsland lake - luminescence bacteria

  Melbourne – cricket ground, royal botanic garden, large tram network

 Great ocean road and war memorial

 Victoria

New south Wales

 Sheep breeding
 The biggest population – Sydney
 Mt. Kosciuszko
 The finest state, the premier state - nickname
 Top beaches
  Coper, zinc – the richest deposit of the world
 Ski resorts, snowfalls!

 Three sisters – rock formation in blue mountains

Queensland

 The sunshine state

 Opal mining
 Wet climate
 Dinosaur excavations
 Old forest – with panda – Daintree rainforest

 Giant kauri – big kauri tree and cathedral big tree

  Great barrier reef – UNESCO – more than 1200 islands – tourists, fishes

 Fraser island – sand island – UNESCO – the largest sand

land in the world

Sydney

 Opera house – 1973 – Jorn Utzon

o “boat with sailors”
o Different colours
o Harbor bridge – nickname the coat hanger -1932

o The wedding cake rock – in royal NP

  Bondi beach

South Australia

 Vineyards – Barossa valley

 Adelaide – city of parks, churches
o Festival – the biggest in the southern hemisphere  Fringe
o City of churches
 Dolphins
 Seal Bay – seals

 Lake Erie

 Kangaro island – NP Flinders chase – rocks

  Flinders chase national park – soaring cliffs and sandy beaches

 Adelaide - city of parks, churches

o Festival – the biggest in the southern hemisphere  Fringe
o City of churches

 Barossa valley – vine

Western Australia

 The largest, least populated

 Ancient woodlands
 The wildflower state
 The most biodiverse region
 Mining, uranium, minerals, gold, diamonds pearls

 The pinnacles – rock formations in the sand

 Ningaloo NP – beaches – Ningaloo reef

 Francois perron NP – red dunes and beach

 Hillier lake – pink colour

 Wave rock – specific shape like a wave

 Perth – the centre - modern

  Shark bay

 Valley of the giants - tree top walk – in the trees

Karri red triangle

 Wolfe creek crater – meteor – about 15 m dieameter

Northern Territory
 Crocodiles
 Aboriginal people
 Darwin 1974 – cyclone – 70% destroyed
o Japanese bombs WWII
o Cyclone Tracy
 Wet and dry season

 Kakadu NP - richest aboriginal culture, beautiful nature

 Kata Tjuta - Uluru – NP with mountain

 Alice Springs – town – to visit Uluru, Kata, Tjuta, Karlu-Karlu – city in the valley

 Arnhem – city, WW2 battle and mainly aboriginal embassy

  Devils marble – Karlu-Karlu – specific rocks

Tasmania

 The natural state, the apple state – apple agriculture, the island of inspiration
 Tasmanian devil
 Island, harbour
 Cobalt

 Porth Arthur – prison – the hardest prison on the world without water, dogs, closed 1877

 Tasselled pavement – by nature- subdivided into polygons

  Bay of fires – orange rocks

 NP walls of Jerusalem – lake, beautiful nature and famous hiking track

Canberra territory

 Former capital
 Tent embassy – rights for aboriginal people
  Canberra

Sports

 Surfing, snowboarding, skiing, tennis (Australian open), baseball, netball (girls)

 BBQ – national

History

 13th century – Marco Polo – first knowledge about the continent

 1606 – Willem Janzon (explorer) – first Dutch ship
 Abel Tasman – Tasmania
 1770 – James Cook – New south Wales landing
 1788 – first Fleet (flotilla) – 11 ships  26th January – Sydney – Australia Day
 1788-1823 – Penal Colony
 1999 – referendum – queen or not
 1856/1892 right to vote for all
 1890s – Queen Victoria – exploring and settling wester part of Australia + golden rush
 1901 – independence