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Some facts & fun ways to learn about Australia.
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Kangaroo gets a pouch - Legends - Animals Myths&Legends - Planet Ozkids - Explore Legends, Myths and Cultures
how the kangaroo got its pouch legend
100 Things You Can ONLY Do In Australia
90 Longest trekking route 91 World’s largest classroom 92 Giant Gippsland Earthworms 93 Darling Harbour swing bridge 94 Sleep on the Great Barrier Reef 95 Peer into the past at Riversleigh 96 Most poisonous mammal 97 Our own blue-ringed octopus 98 Laugh along with kookaburras 99 Heart and soul of Aussie cricket 100 World’s only white whale
100 Things You Can ONLY Do In Australia
71Biggest inner-city park 72Crown the Jacaranda Queen 73Tallest flowering plant 74Search for the Mahogany Ship 75Longest postal run 76Sleep in a wartime bunker 77Largest ever gold nugget 78Unique Fraser Island 79Flatback turtle birth 80Jack and Jillaroo school 81Fish where no-one has before 82Southern meets Indian Ocean 83Rare pink diamonds 84World’s largest reptile 85Two in the air for ANZACS 86Most stubby holders ever 87Midwinter Dinner in Antarctica
100 Things You Can ONLY Do In Australia
54World’s only numerical town 55Biggest gathering of Utes 56Our new national bird? 57World’s fastest boat 58Largest piece of lime 59Roam among the Big Things 60Largest gum forest on the Murray 61Unique whale museum 62Royal Flying Doctor Service 63Make a Mad Max pit stop 64Largest wooden structure 65Great Wall of Tasmania 66Unique dinosaur stampede 67Highest density of anemones 68Oldest materials on Earth 69Largest ever arts movement 70Play possum with a Leadbeater
100 Things You Can ONLY Do In Australia
36Largest barometer 37Race world’s heaviest roaches 38Smallest cathedral 39Biggest coffee machine 40Surf Wave Rock 41Australia’s unique mimic 42Coober Pedy spaceship 43Worship gods of the beach 44World’s longest heatwave 45Black opal fossils 46World’s biggest burrower 47Highest residential view 48World’s biggest geoglyph 49Stare at the biggest boobies 50The Great Artesian Basin 51World’s longest stock route 52Walk all over your leaders 53Reef meets Rainforest
100 Things You Can ONLY Do In Australia
19 Most ’roos under one roof 20 Gliding Morning Glory 21 Sail the James Craig 22 Dive with Dwarf Minke whales 23 Largest salt lake 24 Stromatolites at Shark Bay 25 Where Skylab crash landed 26 Ancient Wollemi Pines 27 Bundy Rum Rebellion 28 Largest straw stalactite 29 Most wild camels 30 World’s only blue-eyed koala 31 Unique heritage-listed honey 32 Rock’n’roll with a Northern Quoll 33 Keep pace with an emu 34 Play on the musical fence 35 Longest golf course
100 Things You Can ONLY Do In Australia
1Tallest ocean stack 2:40,000-yr-old health treatment 3Oldest on root vine 4Largest surfboard 5Deadliest spider 6Land Marlin from the rocks 7Camp by a billabong 8 Largest driveable war memorial 9Largest public VC collection 10Longest straight stretch of rail 11Endangered Corroboree Frog 12Beaconsfield greatest escape 13Surf a sacred wave 14Our unique boab tree 15Go to war with the toads 16Most venomous snake 17Highest steel arch bridge 18World’s first feature film