Australia
A short fact file- Sam Clift

• Australia is the 6th largest country in the world, occupying an entire continent of some 7.6 million square kilometers. • Australia has the largest Greek population in the world beside Athens in Greece and the Greek people can be found in Melbourne Victoria, which has a population of just over 2,000,000 million people. • Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902 and in 2012 the first female prime minister was elected and her name was Julia Gillard. • Australia is the sports capital of the world and has about 70 percent of its total population participating at least once a week in a particular recreational activity or sport, such as going to a gymnasium to work-out or playing in one of the many sports Australians enjoy. • Approximately 1.35 trillion bottles of wine are produced by Australia and Australia is the maker of some of the finest wines in the world. • It is thought that the Aboriginal people have called Australia home for between 40,000 and 80,000 years, and there have been some discoveries to verify this is true, such as foot prints being found that date back 60,000 years. • The first people to migrate to Australia were convicts or criminals from England and there were 162,000 and they were transported by around 800 different boats. • Australia is estimated to be 7,692,024 square Kilometers and the sixth largest nation after Russia, Canada, China , the United States of America and Brazil. It has, however, a relatively small population of around 23,000,000 people. • Australia’s interior land has one of the lowest rainfalls in the world and about three-quarters of the land is dessert and there can be no water or signs of humans found for hundreds of kilometers. Special features about the country- 85% of Australia’s population live within 100km of the coast, Australia has