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Australian Fun Facts

Fun Facts About Australia - Animals

• There are 1500 hundred species of Australian spiders.
• If you read about our spiders you might not like this: the average person swallows three spiders a year.
• We have over 6000 species of flies, about 4000 species of ants, and there are about 350 species of termites in Australia.
• The combined mass of all termites in the world is more than ten times the mass of all people.
• Termites are also called white ants, but they're not ants, in fact not even closely related to ants.
• Australia has the world's largest population of wild camels with one hump.
• The Tasmanian Devil does exist, and it has the jaw strength of a crocodile.
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
• There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only some 20 million people.

Fun Facts About Australia - Geography

• No part of Australia is more than 1000 km from the ocean and a beach. (The point in the world that's the furthest from any ocean would be in China.)
• Australia has the world's largest cattle station (ranch). At 30,028 km² it is almost the same size as Belgium.
• Population density in Australia is usually calculated in km² per person, not people per km².
• Australians have 380,000 m² per person available. Yet well over 90% are cramming into our coastal cities. (Don't ask me why, I sure prefer it here in the Outback.)
• We call Australian's from Queensland "banana benders", and people from Western Australia "sandgropers".
• Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
• The Great Barrier Reef has a mailbox. You can ferry out there and send a postcard, stamped with the only Great Barrier Reef stamp.
• The Australian Alps, or Snowy Mountains as they are also known, receive more snow than Switzerland.
• Melbourne has the second largest Greek population in the world, after Athens.

Taken from: http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/fun-facts-about-australia.html#ixzz0WPPTDQBS

Map of Panama Canal

Traveling Through the Canal

How can it be that to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific you travel east? Or from the Pacific to the Atlantic you travel west? Take a look at the maps and you can see that when the canal was constructed over the narrowest portion of Panama, the route taken was just that! The closeup shows the area by the canal clearly. Click on the link in the title and watch the Miraflores Locks LIVE!

Panama Canal In Action!

Take a look at what's currently traveling through the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal!

Did you know that when traveling through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, you actually travel EAST?

During our studies of water forms, we viewed both cruise ships and container ships traveling through the Panama Canal. The canal is a twenty-four hour a day operation. The picture to the above shows container ships traveling at night.


Click on the picture to the left and you'll see a cruise ship travel through the canal via time lapse photography.

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