family camping tents australia image
kaykat21
What are some weird or amazing facts about Australia?
Answer
Newest Australian Fun Facts:
* Apparently the first European settlers in Australia drank more alcohol per person than any other community in the history of mankind.
* Australian mines (one of our most important industries, which accounts for 15% of Australia's GDP) cover 0.02% of Australia's land mass. More land is occupied by pubs. (Can't find any statistics on the GDP here. My guess is: substantial)
* In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia.
Fun Facts About Australia - The Latest Stories
Crocodile Slams Into Tree
Who do you think was more scared? The Australian family camping in Kakadu National Park who woke up when a three metre crocodile tried climbing up on their tent? Or the crocodile, when the family started screaming?
The poor croc turned straight around and raced back towards the water, unfortunately overlooking the tree in its way. The tree lost a fair bit of bark and there were two big wet circles where the croc's nose had slammed into the tree...
I Can't Find Uluru
A tourist from New South Wales had to stop another vehicle to ask for directions to Ayers Rock. Nothing strange or funny about it?
Well, Ayers Rock is huge (348 metres high), is the only significant feature along the only road in the area, and he was right in front of the rock with his headlights shining on it! You'd think you'd notice, wouldn't you?
Nope. He pulled over the next car coming along, to ask for directions. The car looked like a ranger's vehicle to him. Well, they were cops instead and they immediately whipped out their breathalyser... 0.116. Too bad...
Fun Facts About Australia - Animals
* There are 1500 hundred species of Australian spiders.
* If you read about our spiders you might not like this: the average person swallows three spiders a year.
* We have over 6000 species of flies, about 4000 species of ants, and there are about 350 species of termites in Australia.
* The combined mass of all termites in the world is more than ten times the mass of all people.
* Termites are also called white ants, but they're not ants, in fact not even closely related to ants.
* Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump.
* The Tasmanian Devil does exist, and it has the jaw strength of a crocodile.
* Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
* There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.
Fun Facts About Australia - Geography
* No part of Australia is more than 1000 km from the ocean and a beach. (The point in the world that's the furthest from any ocean would be in China.)
* Australia has the world's largest cattle station (ranch). At 30,028 km2 it is almost the same size as Belgium.
* Population density in Australia is usually calculated in km2 per person, not people per km2.
* Australians have 380,000 m2 per person available. Yet well over 90% are cramming into our coastal cities. (Don't ask me why, I sure prefer it here in the Outback.)
* We call Australian's from Queensland "banana benders", and people from Western Australia "sandgropers".
* Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
* The Great Barrier Reef has a mailbox. You can ferry out there and send a postcard, stamped with the only Great Barrier Reef stamp.
* The Australian Alps, or Snowy Mountains as they are also known, receive more snow than Switzerland.
* Melbourne has the second largest Greek population in the world, after Athens.
Other Miscellaneous Australian Fun Facts
* Imagine the fully welded rails of the Ghan train track weren't restrained properly: on a hot Outback desert day they would expand at 200km/hour and at the Darwin end they'd stick out 1.1 km into the ocean.
* Star gazing: under ideal viewing conditions, like in the Australian Outback, the naked eye can detect about 5,780 stars.
* The Sydney Opera House roof weighs more than 161,000 tons.
* The Great Barrier Reef is the largest organic construction on earth.
* Termite mounds are the tallest non-human constructions on earth.
* Yulara, the Aboriginal name of the Ayers Rock Resort, means "crying", "weeping". Nasty tongues say because that's what visitors do when they see their bill...
http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/fun-facts-about-australia.html
* Australia is considered to have one of the highest degrees of urban concentration in the world.
* Despite the urban concentration, Australia has an average of three people per square kilometre, making it one of the lowest population densities in the world.
* Australia's Parliament House in Canberra is one of the largest buildings in the southern hemisphere at over 300,000 cubic metres.
* The average Australian will consume 165,000 eggs in his or her lifetime.
* Melbourne's motto is Vires acquirit eundo (We gather strength as we grow)
* Melbourne has a public holiday for a horse race each year: The Melbourne Cup.
* Melbourne has the largest remaining tram public transport system in the world.
* Australia's first television station was Channel 9, which opened in Sydney in 1956.
* The most medals Australia has ever won at an Olympic Games was in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, a total of 58 medals.
* One in every four persons is either a first or second generation settler to Australia, a trend started after World War II.
* The average number of people per household in Australia in 1971 was 3.31, in 2006 this number has decreased to 2.6.
* The average family has 1.65 children.
* The average Australian will consume 18 beef cattle and 90 sheep in his or her lifetime.
* 22% of adults will never have children.
* 16.2% of adults will only have one child.
* 88% of Australians live in an urban area - this high concentration may be due to the arid conditions further inland.
* The first ever car to be mass produced in Australia was the FX Holden (model 48-215). This was produced at Fishermans Bend, Victoria in 1948.
* The median age for brides is 28.9 years of age (2006).
* The median age for grooms is 30.9 years of age (2006).
* 34% of men will never marry (2006).
* 32% of women will never marry (2006).
* The Great Barrier Reef is the longest reef in the world at over 2010 kilometres.
* Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is the largest electorate spanning 2,225,278 square kilometres.
* Australian women won the right to vote in 1902.
* Main source of immigrants to Australia is from the UK and Ireland totalling 6.35% of all immigrants.
* The second largest source of immigrants is from Australia's neighbour New Zealand; making 1.70% of all immigrants.
* Australia is known as the smallest continent in the world.
* Australia is three times larger than the largest island (Greenland) in the world.
* The oldest skeleton to ever be found in Australia was believed to be 60,000 years old. It was that of an Aboriginal male, traces of ochre (a ceremonial paint used by Aboriginals) were also found.
* The first ever meeting of the Australian Labor Party (also the first political party to form in 1891) was held under a gum tree at Barcaldine, Queensland.
* Uluru (Ayers Rock) is over 8 kilometres in circumference.
* Australia's first radio station was built in 1912.
* The average Australian will consume half a tonne of cheese, eight tonnes of fruit and ten tonnes of vegetables.
http://www.australianhistory.org/australian-facts.php
http://www.americangirl.com/travel/australia/facts.html
* Australia is the world's largest inhabited island and the smallest continent.
* Australia is the largest continent occupied by one nation and is the least populated.
* Australia is the only English-speaking country to have made voting compulsory in federal and state elections. It results in a voter turnout of 95 per cent.
* The world's largest electorate (2,255,278 square kilometres) is Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
* The secret ballot box, the most prized symbol of democracy, was pioneered in Victoria in 1856.
* Between the towns of Ooldia and Nurina in Western Australia, is the world's longest straight stretch of railway, 478.4 kilometres in length.
* From 1897 to 1905, Kings Cross, Sydney, was called Queen's Cross.
* The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world, extending over 2,012.5 kilometres.
* Tully, in Queensland, is the wettest town in Australia with an average annual rainfall of 355.6 centimetres (11 ft, 10 inches).
* Western Australia is three and a half times as big as Texas.
* Lake Eyre, 16 metres below sea level, has the lowest elevation. It is also the driest area.
* The oldest daily newspaper in the southern hemisphere is the Sydney Morning Herald (1831).
* The Australian coastline totals 36,735 kilometres.
* Marble Bar, Western Australia, recorded the longest period of extreme heat of above 37.7 C. for 160 days from October 1923 to April 1924.
* The average Australian can expect to eat during his or her lifetime: 17 beef cattle, 92 sheep, 406 loaves of bread, 165,000 eggs 8 tons of fruit, half a ton of cheese and ten tons of veggies.
* Australia's record 24-hour rainfall of 907 mm (36.28 inches) occurred at Crohamhurst, Queensland, in 1893.
* No part of Australia is further than 1000 kilometres from the sea.
* Between 1788 and 1856, 157,000 convicts were sent to Australia. This is only one-third of the total sent to the United States.
* Fifty percent of the continent has less than 300 milli
Newest Australian Fun Facts:
* Apparently the first European settlers in Australia drank more alcohol per person than any other community in the history of mankind.
* Australian mines (one of our most important industries, which accounts for 15% of Australia's GDP) cover 0.02% of Australia's land mass. More land is occupied by pubs. (Can't find any statistics on the GDP here. My guess is: substantial)
* In 1954 Bob Hawke made it into the Guinness Record Book: he sculled 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Bob Hawke went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia.
Fun Facts About Australia - The Latest Stories
Crocodile Slams Into Tree
Who do you think was more scared? The Australian family camping in Kakadu National Park who woke up when a three metre crocodile tried climbing up on their tent? Or the crocodile, when the family started screaming?
The poor croc turned straight around and raced back towards the water, unfortunately overlooking the tree in its way. The tree lost a fair bit of bark and there were two big wet circles where the croc's nose had slammed into the tree...
I Can't Find Uluru
A tourist from New South Wales had to stop another vehicle to ask for directions to Ayers Rock. Nothing strange or funny about it?
Well, Ayers Rock is huge (348 metres high), is the only significant feature along the only road in the area, and he was right in front of the rock with his headlights shining on it! You'd think you'd notice, wouldn't you?
Nope. He pulled over the next car coming along, to ask for directions. The car looked like a ranger's vehicle to him. Well, they were cops instead and they immediately whipped out their breathalyser... 0.116. Too bad...
Fun Facts About Australia - Animals
* There are 1500 hundred species of Australian spiders.
* If you read about our spiders you might not like this: the average person swallows three spiders a year.
* We have over 6000 species of flies, about 4000 species of ants, and there are about 350 species of termites in Australia.
* The combined mass of all termites in the world is more than ten times the mass of all people.
* Termites are also called white ants, but they're not ants, in fact not even closely related to ants.
* Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump.
* The Tasmanian Devil does exist, and it has the jaw strength of a crocodile.
* Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
* There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.
Fun Facts About Australia - Geography
* No part of Australia is more than 1000 km from the ocean and a beach. (The point in the world that's the furthest from any ocean would be in China.)
* Australia has the world's largest cattle station (ranch). At 30,028 km2 it is almost the same size as Belgium.
* Population density in Australia is usually calculated in km2 per person, not people per km2.
* Australians have 380,000 m2 per person available. Yet well over 90% are cramming into our coastal cities. (Don't ask me why, I sure prefer it here in the Outback.)
* We call Australian's from Queensland "banana benders", and people from Western Australia "sandgropers".
* Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
* The Great Barrier Reef has a mailbox. You can ferry out there and send a postcard, stamped with the only Great Barrier Reef stamp.
* The Australian Alps, or Snowy Mountains as they are also known, receive more snow than Switzerland.
* Melbourne has the second largest Greek population in the world, after Athens.
Other Miscellaneous Australian Fun Facts
* Imagine the fully welded rails of the Ghan train track weren't restrained properly: on a hot Outback desert day they would expand at 200km/hour and at the Darwin end they'd stick out 1.1 km into the ocean.
* Star gazing: under ideal viewing conditions, like in the Australian Outback, the naked eye can detect about 5,780 stars.
* The Sydney Opera House roof weighs more than 161,000 tons.
* The Great Barrier Reef is the largest organic construction on earth.
* Termite mounds are the tallest non-human constructions on earth.
* Yulara, the Aboriginal name of the Ayers Rock Resort, means "crying", "weeping". Nasty tongues say because that's what visitors do when they see their bill...
http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/fun-facts-about-australia.html
* Australia is considered to have one of the highest degrees of urban concentration in the world.
* Despite the urban concentration, Australia has an average of three people per square kilometre, making it one of the lowest population densities in the world.
* Australia's Parliament House in Canberra is one of the largest buildings in the southern hemisphere at over 300,000 cubic metres.
* The average Australian will consume 165,000 eggs in his or her lifetime.
* Melbourne's motto is Vires acquirit eundo (We gather strength as we grow)
* Melbourne has a public holiday for a horse race each year: The Melbourne Cup.
* Melbourne has the largest remaining tram public transport system in the world.
* Australia's first television station was Channel 9, which opened in Sydney in 1956.
* The most medals Australia has ever won at an Olympic Games was in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, a total of 58 medals.
* One in every four persons is either a first or second generation settler to Australia, a trend started after World War II.
* The average number of people per household in Australia in 1971 was 3.31, in 2006 this number has decreased to 2.6.
* The average family has 1.65 children.
* The average Australian will consume 18 beef cattle and 90 sheep in his or her lifetime.
* 22% of adults will never have children.
* 16.2% of adults will only have one child.
* 88% of Australians live in an urban area - this high concentration may be due to the arid conditions further inland.
* The first ever car to be mass produced in Australia was the FX Holden (model 48-215). This was produced at Fishermans Bend, Victoria in 1948.
* The median age for brides is 28.9 years of age (2006).
* The median age for grooms is 30.9 years of age (2006).
* 34% of men will never marry (2006).
* 32% of women will never marry (2006).
* The Great Barrier Reef is the longest reef in the world at over 2010 kilometres.
* Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is the largest electorate spanning 2,225,278 square kilometres.
* Australian women won the right to vote in 1902.
* Main source of immigrants to Australia is from the UK and Ireland totalling 6.35% of all immigrants.
* The second largest source of immigrants is from Australia's neighbour New Zealand; making 1.70% of all immigrants.
* Australia is known as the smallest continent in the world.
* Australia is three times larger than the largest island (Greenland) in the world.
* The oldest skeleton to ever be found in Australia was believed to be 60,000 years old. It was that of an Aboriginal male, traces of ochre (a ceremonial paint used by Aboriginals) were also found.
* The first ever meeting of the Australian Labor Party (also the first political party to form in 1891) was held under a gum tree at Barcaldine, Queensland.
* Uluru (Ayers Rock) is over 8 kilometres in circumference.
* Australia's first radio station was built in 1912.
* The average Australian will consume half a tonne of cheese, eight tonnes of fruit and ten tonnes of vegetables.
http://www.australianhistory.org/australian-facts.php
http://www.americangirl.com/travel/australia/facts.html
* Australia is the world's largest inhabited island and the smallest continent.
* Australia is the largest continent occupied by one nation and is the least populated.
* Australia is the only English-speaking country to have made voting compulsory in federal and state elections. It results in a voter turnout of 95 per cent.
* The world's largest electorate (2,255,278 square kilometres) is Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
* The secret ballot box, the most prized symbol of democracy, was pioneered in Victoria in 1856.
* Between the towns of Ooldia and Nurina in Western Australia, is the world's longest straight stretch of railway, 478.4 kilometres in length.
* From 1897 to 1905, Kings Cross, Sydney, was called Queen's Cross.
* The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world, extending over 2,012.5 kilometres.
* Tully, in Queensland, is the wettest town in Australia with an average annual rainfall of 355.6 centimetres (11 ft, 10 inches).
* Western Australia is three and a half times as big as Texas.
* Lake Eyre, 16 metres below sea level, has the lowest elevation. It is also the driest area.
* The oldest daily newspaper in the southern hemisphere is the Sydney Morning Herald (1831).
* The Australian coastline totals 36,735 kilometres.
* Marble Bar, Western Australia, recorded the longest period of extreme heat of above 37.7 C. for 160 days from October 1923 to April 1924.
* The average Australian can expect to eat during his or her lifetime: 17 beef cattle, 92 sheep, 406 loaves of bread, 165,000 eggs 8 tons of fruit, half a ton of cheese and ten tons of veggies.
* Australia's record 24-hour rainfall of 907 mm (36.28 inches) occurred at Crohamhurst, Queensland, in 1893.
* No part of Australia is further than 1000 kilometres from the sea.
* Between 1788 and 1856, 157,000 convicts were sent to Australia. This is only one-third of the total sent to the United States.
* Fifty percent of the continent has less than 300 milli
Is the marine corps as boring as some say?
bryan with
Ive heard that those who joined hated it and wanted to leave as soon as they hit those yellow footprints at boot camp. Many say that it sucks and its the worst decision they've ever made in their life? Wtf, this shit just makes me lose my motivation to join. How have your experiences been?
Answer
Like Alex said.. It's not like battlefield 2..
My drill instructor told me once that; "there will be days when you hate the Marine Corps and there are days that you will love it."
And its true, Im a Motor transport Operator. I love to drive so 90% of the time I love it, then I have my off days.
I've only been in for a little more than 2 years and I have travled to:
Hawaii (two times)
South Korea
Fuji
and Australia
And im currently stationed in Japan.
And I get to shoot a ton of weapons. I get paid to shoot weapons, Im talking about these rounds are the size of dry erase marker!!
There are days where I do get my ass handed to me. But never take it to heart, just fix yourself and move on.
The best and most important part I LOVE the most. Is feeling like you are part of something. Cause we are one big crazy family!! Sounds dumb.. but, when you're out in the pouring rain trying to keep your tent from flooding its nice to have someone who hates their life just as much. lol
The Marine corps isnt meant for everyone. Very few make it.
At times it is boring, and you wonder why you even joined.. But, then you think of that one thing... And you realize why you did and for me it goes all away.
I love my job and I love my Corps..
Hopefully this will help you out and motivate you!!
Like Alex said.. It's not like battlefield 2..
My drill instructor told me once that; "there will be days when you hate the Marine Corps and there are days that you will love it."
And its true, Im a Motor transport Operator. I love to drive so 90% of the time I love it, then I have my off days.
I've only been in for a little more than 2 years and I have travled to:
Hawaii (two times)
South Korea
Fuji
and Australia
And im currently stationed in Japan.
And I get to shoot a ton of weapons. I get paid to shoot weapons, Im talking about these rounds are the size of dry erase marker!!
There are days where I do get my ass handed to me. But never take it to heart, just fix yourself and move on.
The best and most important part I LOVE the most. Is feeling like you are part of something. Cause we are one big crazy family!! Sounds dumb.. but, when you're out in the pouring rain trying to keep your tent from flooding its nice to have someone who hates their life just as much. lol
The Marine corps isnt meant for everyone. Very few make it.
At times it is boring, and you wonder why you even joined.. But, then you think of that one thing... And you realize why you did and for me it goes all away.
I love my job and I love my Corps..
Hopefully this will help you out and motivate you!!
Powered by Yahoo! Answers
