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AUSTRALIAC l a s s 8 E

A PUPIL MADE MAGAZINE ABOUT AUSTRALIA

The content:

• Life in a big city (Sidney, Canberra and

Melbourne)

• Life on a cattle station

• Ayers Rock and The Great Barrier Reef

• Geography and climate 

• Food, sports and culture

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MELBOURNE

The million city Melbourne offers exceptional

natural areas, a bustling city life and a multi-

cultural history, spanning hundreds of years back

in time. The city as it looks today is a result of a

melting pot of people, a successful shipping and

unbeatable nature. Facts about Melbourne.

Melbourne is a port city. The river Yarra flow thought melbourne. Melbourne have fast change of climate because the dry and the wet climate. Melbourne is colder then other Australian big cities. Melbourne was founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.

Melbourne is the second biggest city in Australia

• Complacently 3,9 millions people live there.

• The climate is tropical and in January is

it around 25 degrees and in July is it around 13 degrees.

• Melbourne is in the New South Whales,

int the south Australia.• Melbourne are like other big city, it has

all kinds of works.

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SYDNEY

FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Events and festivals you can attend in Sydney is for instance

” Hard Rock Cafe Darling Harbour Sydney ” , is holding

an open mic night every Monday.

All the sound, lighting and instruments such as drums,

bass and guitars are provided but musicians are welcome to bring their own. It´s a great place for musicians to meet, network and jam with other musicians. There are drink

specials all night.

SYDNEY THE CITY OF AUSTRALIA

Sydney is in the south part of Australia, and is the capital of the state New South Wales. Sydney is Australias oldest city, and has got

3,8 millions residents.

Sydney has warm summers and cool winters, with some rainfalls through the year, a very nice climate. A temperature between nine and sixteen degrees Celsius.

SPORTS IN SYDNEY• Cricket

• Football

• Basketball

• Tennis

• Team Training

• Surfing

Those sports are very popular in

sydney. You can go

and do them in

Alexandria

park.

In Sydney there is a lot of people who works with

computers and internet. Or the ones who has their own companies.

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CLIMATE

ClimateIn Australia there are six different climatic zones - Tropical, subtropical, desert, temperately, rainforest and grassland climate.

TROPICAL CLIMATEIf you like to be in tropical climates, then you should go to the northern part of Australia. The tropical climate in Australia has a constant temperature mainly above 18 degrees. Australia is well-known for the hot season because Australia is situated south of the equator. In the tropical climate you can find big rain forests. The rainforest covers 4,2 million hectares of Australia’s landmass.

DESERT CLIMATEIf you want to be in desert-climate you should go to the middle of Australia therefore there it is a lot of desert. The deserts of Australia cover 18% of the Australian mainland. It’s extremely warm in the Australian desert areas. It’s one of the most difficult places for survival for human, animals and plants. Here are some famous Australian deserts: Great Victoria Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Western Desert, Tanami Desert, Gibson Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Simpson Desert and Strzelecki Desert among others. The sixth larges desert in the world (in terms of area) and the biggest desert in Australia is Great Victorian Desert.

TEMPERATE CLIMATEIn the southern part of

Australia it is temperate climate. The temperate climate

has cool winters and mild to warm summers. The need for

summer cooling is smaller than the need for winter heating.

SUBTROPICAL CLIMATEAlong the southwest and

northeast cost it is subtropical climate. The subtropic climate

is the most comfortable climate. The subtropical climate zone has

usually short, mild and wet winters. Long, dry and hot summers with a very short

transition between the seasons. (Autumn and spring). This

climate zone is during summer influenced by tropical air

masses. Through the winter months the formation of snow

cover is absolutely possible.

SOURCES: http://www.touristmaker.com/climate/subtropical.htmlhttp://www.australiaonnet.com/tourism/deserts.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Australia

http://www.travel-australia.org/darwin/tropical_climate.html

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Pictures

GREAT BARRIER REEF

The Great barrier reef is in the coast of Australia and expands more than 2000 km and is a paradise full of colorful reefs, corals, fishes and other marine animals. it is the only living organism that you can see from space. 15 to 70 km of the coast of Queensland, it is a composition of 2900 smaller reefs with 300 stepping stone islands. The Great Barrier Reef is recognized as an important ecological spot and also a World Heritage site by UNESCO for its 500 different species of colorful hard and soft corals, 1500 different fishes, and 4000 types of molluscs. There is a lot of activities like scuba diving, snorkeling, cruising and a lot more activities that you can do in the Great Barrier Reef. It costs about $208 per person to visit the reef with special turist boats if you are an adult. and about $168 per person for children. The great barrier reef has about 900 island, 2900 coral reefs 133.000 Squares of underwather paradise. A great place to have an under wather adventure is the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. This part of the Great Barrier reef is protected from harvesting any coral or seashells and fishing. By Alva 8E

Scuba Help ~ Tips and resources for a safe scuba dive adventure

Outer Barrier Reef - Prices - Great Adventures

Great Barrier Reef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ayers Rock Its a famous sandstone. It is also called Uluru. Is 600 million years old. Uluru is in the middle of Australian. In the mountains hidden crevices it´s a rich plant and animal life. Uluru it´s a very unique area that takes time to discover through the day. I think there is something for older children. You can hike, bike, watch the sun go up and down its very beautiful there.

Research suggest that Aborigines have lived in Uluru for at least 10 000 years. William Gosse was also the first European to climb ayers rock. When you approach Ayers rock / Uluru can you see the sandstone change colours to red purple, orange, grey and yellow, depending on weather conditions and your distance from it. Most of the mountain is under ground

Uluru is:

862.5 meters above the sea.3.6 km long (2.2) miles Flights to Ayers Rock depart daily from every major airport in Australia.

You can see why the Aboriginal owners call the Uluru climbers "ants".

Ayers Rock - Uluru

There is much kangaroos in Australian.

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GEOGRAPHY

The Great Barrier Reef is 201 mil long and eight mil wide at the widest part. The reef stretches from Papua New Guinea to Gladstone along the entire east coast of australia. It consists of approx. 2600 separate reefs. Most of the reef is about two million years old, but some of the reef is around eighteen million years old.

The geography varies greatly. They say that Australia is on average the lowest continent.

There is a mountain range in the north called Australia alps. It is about as high as our mountains of Lapland. In the middle of the country there Macdonnel and Musgrave with peaks up to 1500m. Far to the south is the highest mountain called Mount Kosciuski. It is about 2230 meters high and covered in snow year om.

The largest lake called Eyre is 12 meters below sea level. Many lakes are completely white from the salt during the dry season. The longest river is the river Darling (2800 km). It is a tributary of the Murray River which is 1700 km long. This has water year unlike most other.

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LIFE AT A CATTLE STATION

Australia

What it’s about to work on a cattle station.If your working on a cattle station you are far away from your home. Every day you must sleep on the ground and under the sky. It can sometimes even go 5 mounts before you come home.

The cattle are so big that they need horses and now sometimes they need helicopters and motor trucks to go round the cattle meanwhile they are running.

The days are long for the worker, it’s always hot and the sun big on the sky.

Sometimes animals dies whiteout water. It’s a hard job but people.

Some of the cattle stations can be big as a small country in europe.

In Australia it lives nearly 23.348.568 people but it’s hard to now exactly because not everybody gets sign up in a paper that you get in sweden.

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SPORTS AND FOOD

Sports

Rugby is one of the most popular sports in Australia. Many

people Calls rugby for ``Footy´´ In rugby there are two teams

that try to put a ball Into a goal. Rugby is a real hard sport and

in rugby there are many fights. The reason for the fights is that

they run over and tackle each other hard.

In Australia they also like to go and surf.

They start to surf in the 1900´s. It is prohibited to be in the sea

between 06:00 in the morning and 20:00 in the evening. Because

people have ben attacked by sharks. In Australia they have many

other sports like: Cricket, Golf, Soccer, Rowing, Sailing, Bowls,

Martial Arts, Volley Ball, Basket Ball, Swim and Spear Fishing

Pictures.

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Food

In Australia peoples eat a lot of fish and lamb. They do not have much wild meat, basically nothing, they eat only cow and sheep meat. Some people eat birds and actually crocodiles. But many people use their gardens for themselves! They eat local fruits for especially the biff and lamb meat. Shrimps and fish are very common in Australia. They are not so sporty but keeps active pretty much. If you compare with americans, so they are sporty!