10 Interesting Facts about Australia

1. Kangaroo and emu are used in several government logos both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards for this reason the australian army features the animals on their uniforms.

2. Australia has a high life expectancy  women in australia can expect to live an average of 85.4 years and men can expect to live 81.6 years this averages out to a life expectancy of 83.496 years for australia.

3. Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano  even without an active volcano australia still has other threats because it is inhabited by many species of poisonous snakes and spiders.

4. Australia has a huge wine round australia is not the first country that springs to mind when you're looking to explore lush wine lands yet the country boasts over 60 separate wine growing regions.

5. The sydney opera house took 14 years to build  the sydney opera house gets 10.9 million visitors every year builders expected the construction of the sydney opera house to take four years but it eventually took 14 years to build with 10 000 construction workers.

6. There are more camels than koalas in australia  one surprising fact australia is home to one of the largest herds of wild camels in the world.

7. There are 150 million sheep in australia there are 150 million sheep in australia with 20 million people that's around eight sheep for every person how about the kangaroos australia has 25 million kangaroos.

8. Unexpectedly it turns out that there is snow in australia  australia is famous for its record-breaking high temperatures but if you visit the australian alps in winter you'll see a different side of the country.

9. The world's largest reef ecosystem  the great barrier reef sweeps along the western shore of australia and boasts over 3000 individual reefs it's the only living thing on earth visible from space.  

10. Australia is a spacious country if we are going to scatter all the people in australia there will only be three people for every 100 hectares all around the country.

10. Australia is a spacious country if we are going to scatter all the people in australia there will only be three people for every 100 hectares all around the country.