26 Fun Australian Facts
Who doesn’t love trivia? Here are some fun facts about Australia, read up and have fun! Don’t forget that if you are planning a vacation to Australia, contact a travel team agent today at 1-800-788-0829 to start planning your dream vacation! Read these 26 fun facts and have fun!
- Australia is one of the few countries that eats their national animal (kangaroo) if not just in dog food.
- The Emu and the Kangaroo are on the Australian crest because neither animal can walk backwards.
- Per capita, Australians read more newspapers than any other nation.
- The ‘dingo fence’ is the longest fence in the world (5,530km). It is about twice as long as the Great Wall of China.
- The largest Greek population outside of Athens is found in Melbourne.
- 750,000 camels roam Australian deserts, the largest number of purebred camels in the world.
- Adelaide’s Botanic Gardens are home to the oldest glasshouses in the Southern Hemisphere.
- The Australian Alps receive more snow than Switzerland.
- Glenelg (in Adelaide), Tumut (in NSW) and Parap (in Darwin) are all palindromes.
- Australia has 20% of the world’s poker machines, but only .33% of the world’s population.
- Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its CBD.
- Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
- The Seekers were named joint Australians of the Year in 1967.
- Crocodile Dundee is the highest grossing Australian film to date.
- It is illegal to walk on the right hand side of the footpath.
- If all of the shells on the roof of the Sydney Opera House were combined, they would create a perfect sphere.
- Fraser Island is the world’s largest sand island.
- Cathy Freeman is the only person to have been awarded both Young Australian of the Year and Australian of the Year.
- Australians hold the world record for the most number of Christmas lights on a house. Over half a million lights were placed on a Canberra house last Christmas.
- The average Australian will consume 165,000 eggs in his or her lifetime.
- No native Australian animals have hooves.
- When the English settlers first saw a platypus they thought Australians were trolling them by sewing a duck bill on a rat.
- In 1838 it was declared illegal to swim at public beaches during the day. This law remained in force until 1902.
- Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is the largest electorate, spanning 2,225,278 square kilometers.
- Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s performance at the 2000 Olympics was pre-recorded by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
- The wine cask is an Australian invention.
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