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*Obsah
*Basic facts
*Flag & the Government
*Landscape
*Historical facts
*Wildlife
*Cities
*Indigenous Australians
*Basic facts
*Terra Australis – the land of the south
*The Commonwealth of Australia
*over 23,000,000 inhabitants
*6 states (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia)
*2 territories (the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory)
*sheep stations
*Flag & the Government
*flag – the Union Jack flag + the Commonwealth star + the Southern Cross
*constitutional monarchy
*head of the state – Queen Elizabeth II
*represented by the Governor General
*parliamentary system, Prime Minister
*compulsory voting
*Landscape*huge central desert + semi-desert zone = the outback
*the Great Dividing Range – Mt. Kosciuszko (2,228m)
*subtropical rainforests in the north-east
*the Great Barrier Reef (NE) – 2,000km long
*temperate climate SE + SW corners
*the Darling, the Murray
*Historical facts
*40,000BC the Aborigines arrived from Asia
*17th century – Dutch navigators – New Holland
*1770 – James Cook (Great Britain)
*penal colony
*1850s – a gold rush – many immigrants
*1901 – the Commonwealth of Australia
*Wildlife
*a great number of reptiles
*Tasmania – Tasmanian devil
*Kangaroo Island – unique species
*koala + eucalyptus tree
*bilby, platypus
*Cities
*Canberra – built around an artificial lake
*Sydney – Opera House, “Paris of the Pacific”
*Perth – very isolated
*Adelaide, Brisbane
*Indigenous Australians
*didgeridoo
*boomerangs
*Uluru (Ayers Rock) – sandstone, sacred to some aboriginal tribes
*Seznam použitých zdrojů
*Flag of Australia. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-01]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia
*Australia. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
*Photos* POT. Sheep shearing. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA):
Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sheep_shearing.jpg
* Flag of Australia. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Australia.svg
* BRAXMEIER. Reliefmap of Australia. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reliefmap_of_Australia.png
* BASEDOW. Showing method of attack with boomerang. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Showing_method_of_attack_with_boomerang_-_NMA-15147.jpg
* DCOETZEE. Bilby at Sydney Wildlife World. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bilby_at_Sydney_Wildlife_World.jpg
* Sydney Skyline. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney_Skyline.jpg
* LEONARD G. Uluru. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-05-21]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UluruClip3ArtC1941.jpg