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FactDiet: The average Australian will eat 17 beef cattle, 92 sheep, 4005 loaves of bread, 165,000 eggs, half a tonne of cheese, 8 tonnes of fruit and 10 tonnes of vegetables in their lifetime!
FactGeography: 50% of the continent has less than 300mm annual rainfall.
FactGeography: Cocklebiddy Cave, WA, contains the world's longest underwater passages.
FactGeography: No part of Australia is further than 1000km from the sea.
FactHistory: Timber from the Satinay tree from Fraser Island was shipped to Egypt in 1925 to prop up the walls of the Suez Canal.
FactEnvironment: A single, mature Karri tree from WA can yield more than 250kg of honey from blossom.
FactEnvironment: There are 2987 wildlife reserves in Australia, covering 3.9% of the area of the continent.
FactGeography: Sydney Harbour, (Port Jackson) is over 55 sq kilometres.
FactEnvironment: The platypus and the echidna are the world's only egg-laying mammals.
FactHistory: Don Bradman was the first living Australian to have his face appear on a postage stamp.
FactHistory: Australia's first radio transmitting and receiving station was built near Pennant Hills, Sydney in 1912.
FactHistory: Sydney International Airport is named after the famous Brisbane-born aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who pionered air routes from Australia across the world.
FactGeography: Lake Eyre, 16 metres below sea level, is the lowest elevation in Australia. It is the driest area, receiving only 8-2mm average annual rainfall.
FactGeography: Uluru (Ayers Rock) stands 860m above sea-level in the centre of Australia.
FactGeography: Lake St Clair in Tasmania is over 200m deep and occupies a basin once gouged out by 2 glaciers more than 20 000 years ago.
FactGeography: Wolf Creek, WA has the largest meteorite crater in Australia, 853.44m diameter and 61m deep.
FactGeography: Western Australia is three and half times bigger than Texas.
FactWeather: Tully in Queensland is the wettest town in Australia with an average annual rainfall of 355.6 cm.
FactEnvironment: The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world, extending over 2012.5km.
FactMining: Australia's 3 main opal fields are in Quiilpie (Qld), Lightning Ridge (NSW) and Coober Pedy (SA).
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