Thursday, June 23, 2011

TRIVIA … AUSTRALIA

 

1. Flinders Island is warmer than Melbourne in the winter

2. Flinders Island has more sunny days than the Gold Coast

3. Portland is the oldest European settlement in Victoria

4. Hamilton was the original home of the Ansett company

5. The first Ansett flight took place in 1936

6. Adelaide was the first Australian city legalize nude swimming

7. Melbourne’s tramway system is the largest outside Europe and the fourth largest in the world

8. Melbourne has 450 trams that travel on 244 kilometres of track

9. The traditional owners of the area around Portland, the Gunditjmara, were the only settled Aboriginal people in Australia, living in small circular stone huts

10. The Adelaide Hills are home to one of Australia’s ‘Big’ tourist attractions – the Big Rocking Horse at Gumeracha

bigrockinghorse

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