Wildlife Wonders
This hopping animal is a national symbol of Australia.
What is a kangaroo?
This famous rock formation in the desert is sacred to Aboriginal people.
What is Uluru? (или What is Ayers Rock?)
This world-famous opera house is located in Sydney Harbour.
What is the Sydney Opera House?
For a long time, Britain sent criminals to settle these in Australia.
What are penal colonies?
Aussie word for "friend" or "mate".
What is a "mate"?
This carnivorous marsupial, now extinct, was nicknamed the "Tasmanian tiger".
What is the thylacine?
The largest coral reef system in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
A traditional Aboriginal wind instrument, famous for its deep, droning sound.
What is a didgeridoo?
The indigenous people of Australia, with a history spanning over 50,000 years.
Who are the Aboriginal Australians? (или Who are the Indigenous Australians?)
If an Aussie invites you for a "barbie", they mean this.
What is a barbecue?
This cute, tree-dwelling bear eats mostly eucalyptus leaves.
What is a koala?
The vast, arid, red desert region in the heart of Australia.
What is the Outback?
The popular nickname for the Australian national cricket team.
What are the Baggy Greens?
In 1851, a major discovery of this precious metal caused a huge "rush" to Victoria.
What is gold?
What "G'day" means.
What is "Hello" or "Good day"?
This is the only mammal in the world that lays eggs.
What is the platypus?
The strait that separates mainland Australia from Tasmania.
What is the Bass Strait?
This annual horse race in Melbourne is known as "the race that stops a nation".
What is the Melbourne Cup?
The name of the fleet of British ships that arrived in 1788, starting the first European colony.
What is the First Fleet?
If something is "fair dinkum", it is this.
What is genuine or true?
The world's deadliest snake, found in Australia, shares its name with a continent.
What is the inland taipan? (или What is a taipan?)
The mountain range running along the east coast, from Queensland to Victoria.
What are the Great Dividing Range?
This 1986 film, starring Paul Hogan, featured the famous line "That's not a knife..."
What is "Crocodile Dundee"?
The name of the policy that aimed to assimilate Aboriginal children into white society, a dark chapter in history.
What was the Stolen Generations policy?
"Arvo", "brekkie", and "sunnies" are short for these three things.
What are afternoon, breakfast, and sunglasses?