Australia Top 10
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#1......... Physical Environment
Over 1 million wild camels roam the Australian dessert. They were originally brought to help with the construction of railroads.
#2 Physical Environment
The Dingo Fence in Australia is the longest fence in the world and is twice as long as The Great Wall of China.
#3 Physical Environment
Australia is the only continent without and active volcanoe.
#4 People
Eighty percent of Australians own a jar of a special yeast extract called "Vegemite".
#5 People
About 1.35 trillion bottles of wine or produced by Australians in a year making Australia the largest wine manufacturing country.
#6 Physical Environment
Australia is the only place in the world where you can still find a fossil of a Lung Fish from the Triassic period which was over 350 million years ago.
#7 People
Australia was the second country to give women the right to vote in 1902, right after the United States.
#8 Physical Environment
The world's largest reef system, The Great Barrier Reef, is on the northeastern coast of Australia.
#9 People
There are almost 100,000 more women than men in Australia! Talk about a man drought!
#10 People
Despite the large land area of this country, only about 21.13 million people live there!