Tuesday, April 19, 2011

ODD FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALASIA

 

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  • New Zealand means 'Land of the long white cloud'
  • Australia's first police force was a band of 12 of the most well behaved convicts
  • The box jellyfish is considered the world's most venomous marine creature. The box jellyfish has killed more people in Australia than stonefish, sharks and crocodiles combined
  • Because Sydney and Melbourne kept bickering over which city should be the capital of Australia, it was decided that neither of them would be and instead, a new capital would be built in the middle of them both - Canberra - capital from 1908.
  • Kiwi fruit is internationally well known and marketed from New Zealand. Interestingly it was itself introduced to the country in 1959. The fruit origins from China and was called at the beginning Chinese gooseberry
  • With less than 1% of the world's population, Australia has more than 20% of its poker machines

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