1、Australia has many characteristics that made it unique. For example, it’s flora and fauna, it’s nature resources, it’s landform, it’s river systems and it’s human characteristics.
The reason why there are many physical features is because the continent was isolated from others millions of years ago.
Australia has unique plants and animals. 80% of plants there cannot be seen anywhere else around the world naturally. They’ve got wet and dry sclerophyll forests, bush lands, rainforests and so on. There are special types of animals here like the marsupials and monotremes. It’s because their predators and competitors do not exist there. Other animals like reptiles, amphibians, birds are very different there too. They all developed features that suits the Australia environment.
Australia hasn’t got a lot of water resources but there are other resources like mineral and energy which they’ve got a lot. The most important mineral exports are iron ore, bauxite and so on. Most of them can be found in the western plateau region. Energy like fuel are from swamps buried millions of years ago.
Australia has unique landform. It’s the flattest and lowest continent on the earth. The highest mountain there (Mt. Kosciusko) is 2228 meters high.
The biggest drainage basin here is the Murry-Daring drainage basin. It holds the Murry River and the Daring River and flow to the Great Australia Bright.
People in Australia are very unique as well. Australia is a multi-culture country which have people from many culture backgrounds. It has the most culture diversity in the world.
So as we can see, Australia is a very unique country with unique physical and human characteristics.

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澳大利亞詳細(xì)介紹 1

General Facts 一般常識(shí)
Australian Icons 澳大利亞概況
History 歷史
Government 政府
Aussie Culture 澳洲文化

Some Information in this section taken from: NICHOLSON, Margaret. The Pocket Aussie Fact Book. Penguin Books Australia, Ringwood (Victoria), Australia, 1999.

這里的一些信息來自： NICHOLSON,Margaret. 澳洲常識(shí)小冊(cè)子，澳大利亞企鵝出版社，維多利亞，澳大利亞，1999。

General Facts 一般常識(shí)
Australia is a land of contrasts and diversity. Its landscape ranges from desert and bushland in the central areas, to rainforest in the North, to snowfields in the South East. Australia's nearest neighbour is Papua New Guinea, 200km north. Australia lies 1920km west of New Zealand, and 2000km to the north of Antarctica.

澳大利亞是一個(gè)多元化的大陸，她的地域有沙漠、中部地區(qū)未開墾的地區(qū)、北方的熱帶雨林和東南部的廣袤雪原。澳大利亞最近的鄰國是其北部200km 的巴布亞新幾內(nèi)亞，澳大利亞位于新西蘭以西1920千米，南極洲以北2000千米。

(The following information is based on data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics)

以下數(shù)據(jù)來自澳大利亞統(tǒng)計(jì)署

Some facts on Australians you may not be aware of...

一些你可能沒有注意過的澳大利亞知識(shí)：

About one in four Australians were born in another country
Roughly one in four Australians have one or both parents born overseas
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make up approximately 2% of the population
Approximately 17% of Australians speak a language other than English at home
There are 170 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages
There are more than 100 different ethnic groups
Approximately 70% of 'Aussies' live in one of the eight major cities.
四分之一的澳大利亞人出生在其他國家。
幾乎四分之一的澳大利亞人的父母一個(gè)或兩個(gè)出生在其他國家。
土著和托雷斯海峽島民占澳大利亞人口的近2%。
近17%的澳大利亞人在家說英文以外的語言。
有170種土著和托雷斯海峽島民的語言。
有超過100個(gè)以上的異教團(tuán)體。
近70%的澳洲人居住在八個(gè)主要的城市
Some facts on South Australia you may not know...

南澳大利亞你可能不知道的事情

Most South Australians (around 75 per cent) live in and around Adelaide
The indigenous people of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people
大部分南澳大利亞人（大約75%）居住在阿德萊德或其附近。
阿德萊德區(qū)的土著居民是Kaurna族。