Lucie Syrová

*Australia

*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