Capital Canberra Largest city Sydney Other large cities Melbourne Brisbane National language English Area 7,617,930 km²

Canberra

Canberra – capital city of Austraila Population - 351,868 Established - 12 March 1913 Area km² Mean Max TempMean Min TempAnnual Rainfall 19.7 °C6.5 °C616.3 mm

Views of Canberra

Music in Australia

Kylie Minogue Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968 in Melbourne, Australia ) - Australian singer and actress, has released 11 studio albums, compilation Ultimate Kylie concerts and recordings and a large number of singles. November 26, 2007, she released her 10th X studio album, featured the single "2 Hearts", and July 5, 2010 was issued the latest, the eleventh album, "Aphrodite. " Her records have sold a circulation of 60 million copies worldwide.

AC / DC Australian hard rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. The team is considered to include as a pioneer of hard rock and heavy metal groups, including Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. Its members, however, have always classified their music as "rock & roll

Sport in Australia Athletics Athletics is a popular sport in Australia, with around 34,000 athletes, officials and coaches currently registered with the national association. Track and Field events at Stadium Australia during the2000 Summer Olympics

Australian rules football Australian rules football is played in all Australian states and territories. The game is referred to as football, "footy", "Aussie rules" or (erroneously) as "AFL". In 2008 AFL games had a cumulative attendance of 7,083,015, a record for the competition and an average attendance of 38,295. A match at Etihad Stadium, one of Melbourne's two major AFL venues.

Cricket Cricket has a long history in Australia, and is played on local, national and international levels. It is Australia's national summer sport and unlike the various football codes, enjoys consistent support from people in all parts of Australia. The Australia national cricket team was the winner of the first Test match, and is today regarded as the leading international team in world cricket, having been the unquestionably dominant team for most of the 2000s. Cricket crowd at the Boxing Day test in 2007

Animals in Australia

KOALA - SPECIES OF ARBOREAL MARSUPIAL HERBIVORE ANIMALS, LIVING IN EAST AUSTRALIA. KOALA DESCENDS TO EARTH IN ORDER TO MOVE TO ANOTHER TREE Kangaroo - Adult males reach a height of standing about two meters and a weight of 65 kg. It lives in dry scrub and woodland. It eats mainly grass and other herbaceous plants. Pregnancy lasts only 36 days and young remain in the bag for 9 months. Live in large groups where females predominate and young. Still very abundant in Australia, but rarely exhibited in European collections.

Dingo resides in Australia, New Guinea, and recently concluded that most probably belong to this subspecies is also wild dogs from the South-East Asia and the Philippines. On the basis of genetic testing found that the ancestor of the dingo arrived on the continent probably before 3.5 thousand years with one of the subsequent waves of settlers from South-East Asia. Dingo were originally domesticated human companions, but in Australia, re-run wild.

Landmarks in Australia

St Mary's Cathedral Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney Harbour Bridge

Uluru Mount Kosciuszko Queen Victoria Building

Parliment House M elbourne Cricket Ground