Australia Flashcards

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New South Wales

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Sydney

  • Sydney is one of the scenic cities
  • Doesn’t have a lot of history since it is new
  • Melbourne is the sport’s capital
  • It was discovered by Captain Cook
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Tasmania

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Hobart

  • Pretty casual lifestyle on the island
  • # 1 industry is apple orchards
  • Australians cannot stand kangaroos
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Victoria

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Melbourne

  • Known for the sports country
  • They love the water, they like to swim
  • They have a basketball league that is rising
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Queensland

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Brisbane

  • This is where the Great Barrier Reef and Yorke Peninsula
  • Here where you would find gold
  • Goes very mediterranean in the south
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South Australia

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Adelaide

Car manufacturing is very big in the capital city

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Western Australia

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Perth

  • Least populated, because of the desert
  • Perth is the isolated major city in the world
  • Gold mining is very big in the outskirts
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Northern Territory

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Darwin

Darwin is the only city in Australia that has ever been bombed by Japan in World War 2

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New Zealand

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Willington

  • Became inhabited by people who esacped from Australia
  • Very comfortable climate to the north
  • As you go south, it gets very cold and where penguins live on the coastline
  • They are called kiwis
  • Northern island where the most of the population is
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