• Capital: Canberra• National Language: English• Goverment: Federal parliamentary constitutional

monarchy• Monarch: Isabel II

Australia has six states:•New South Wales• Queensland •South Australia •Tasmania •Victoria •Western AustraliaAnd two major mainland territories:•The Australian Capital Territory•The Northern Territory.

Opera house The bridge over the bay

The zoo The aquariumThe Blue Mountains

The Great Barrier Reef

The Kuranda cablewayPort Douglas

The Daintree National Park

Tasmania

Ayers Rock

WhitsundaysMagnetic Island

Gold CoastFraser Island

Australia's climate is characterized by:•Subtropical rain forests in the north-east,•Mountain ranges in the south-east, south-west and east areas,•Dry desert in its centre.

• Many Australian plants are evergreen and are adapted to fire and drought, including many species of eucalyptus and acacia.It is considered that the current predominance of flora predominates in desert and arid areasThere is a rich variety of endemic species of vegetables that thrive even in poor soil

• It is considered that the current predominance of flora predominates in desert and arid areasScientists from the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) also found 80 seamounts, including corals are 2 meters and 2000 years old.

• The Australian fauna is known for the presence of marsupials and monotremes striking.

• Besides these typical animals and famous, Australia characterizes the extraordinary abundance of venomous animals, many of them deadly to humans: sea wasp, octopus, sea snakes ...

• Another feature Australian: is the continent with the largest variety of lizards.

• Also prominent among these different species of kangaroos, koalas, wombats, the Tasmanian Devil ...

• Among placental mammals native beckon sugar gliders, the dingo was introduced by Asians who traded with Indigenous Australians by 4000 a. C.