AUSTRALIA

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• It is a sovereign country of Oceania whose government form is the monarchy constitutional federal parliamentarian. The country occupies the main continental mass of the called platform Sahul, besides some islands in the oceans Pacific,Indian and Antarctic.

• Australia is the sixth bigger country of the world. Their capital, Canberra, is in the Territory of the Australian Capital. concentrated mainly in the big coastal cities: Sídney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaida and the capital Canberra.

• Australia has been inhabited for but of forty and two thousand years for the Australian aborigines . after the sporadic visits of the Portuguese, followed by Dutch fishermen and of browsers and European merchants begun in the century XVII.

FLORA AND FAUNA

• Although great part of Australia is desert or semi-arid, a great diversity of habitats exists in her, from alpine heaths to tropical forests.

• Most of the plants woody Australians is perennifolias and they are adapted to the fire and the drought, including many species of eucalyptuses and acacias. It exists a very rich variety of endemic species of vegetables that you/they still prosper in poor floors in nutritious thanks to their symbiosis with the bacteria Rhizobia, and mushrooms that make possible the micorriza.

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CULTURE

• The primary basis of the Australian culture was Celtic until Anglo culture arrived in the middle of the twentieth century, although the Australians have been acquired characteristic features of the environment and of the aboriginal culture.

CULTURE

• During the last 50 years, the Australian culture has been strongly influenced by the American popular culture (particularly in television and cinema), for the immigration to great scale of countries non Anglo speakers and for the countries Asian neighbors

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