{"id":85566,"date":"2022-01-31T05:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T05:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=85566"},"modified":"2022-01-31T05:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T05:33:49","slug":"the-land-down-under-by-des-kelly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-land-down-under-by-des-kelly-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;THE LAND DOWN UNDER&#8221; \u2013 by Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;THE LAND DOWN UNDER&#8221; \u2013 by Des Kelly<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85567\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/THE-LAND-DOWN-UNDER-\u2013-by-Des-Kelly.jpg\" alt=\"THE LAND DOWN UNDER \u2013 by Des Kelly\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It does happen to be the Country that most Sri Lankans migrated to, when things began to get tough in our Motherland. Australia thus became our Stepmother Country, this vast brown Continent, our move from a tiny Island that many did NOT want to leave, but had to, because of circumstances that began in Ceylon of the early 1950&#8217;s, circumstances that seemed to get more difficult with each passing year.Of course, I cannot speak for any other migrants, but I migrated to Melbourne with a very young family, only to make certain that my children would not be discriminated against, because of our Burgher ancestry. We decided on Australia because I already had some Uncles, Aunts, &amp; Cousins who were resident here, and couldn&#8217;t praise this Country enough, even though those who did come here initially found that life was not easy at all, to begin with, but carried on regardless and most succeeded in their new Country. Although Australia is so huge, this is a really beautiful Country, and Keith Bennet has sent in this fascinating list on things that many of us were unaware of, so thank you for this, Keith. e&#8217;Lanka really appreciates information that is both interesting and amazing. Enough said, so let&#8217;s go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>50 Facts about Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Check out these fun and interesting facts about Australia. How many did you know?<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alps.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">90% of Australians live on the coast.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Great Barrier Reef is the largest ecosystem in the world. It is made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and can be seen from space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia has over 60 separate wine regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Indian Pacific train has the longest straight section of train track in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Great Ocean Road is the world\u2019s largest war memorial.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">80% of Australian animals are unique to Australia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">5 km of Uluru is underground.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia has the world\u2019s longest golf course measuring more than 1,350kms long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is home to 21 of the world\u2019s 25 most venomous snakes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its CBD.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is bigger than we realise, it\u2019s almost the same size as mainland USA.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The largest cattle station in the world is located in Australia, Anna Creek Ranch in South Australia, and it\u2019s bigger than Israel.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The first Police Force in Australia was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day \u2013 there are 10,685 of them!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">AFL invented to keep cricketers fit in the off season, there are claims that the game may have been influenced by Indigenous Australians.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The world\u2019s largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia, and is actually twice the size of Uluru.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is the 6th largest country in the world<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There are 1 million camels that roam wild in Australia\u2019s deserts, the largest number of purebred camels in the world, they are exported to the Middle East.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">You can fly from Perth to Melbourne faster than you can fly from one end of Western Australia to the other.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There are over 60 different types of kangaroos, and a baby kangaroo when born is only about 2 centimetres long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Aboriginal culture is the oldest on Earth \u2013\u00a0 it is estimated that the continent\u2019s original inhabitants, the aboriginal people, have been in Australia for between 40,000-60,000 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia has 19 World Heritage Listed sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">91% of the country is covered by native vegetation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">33% of Australians were born in another country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Over 300 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages. In fact, 21% of Australians don\u2019t speak English at home!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">WA is home to what is believed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth \u2013 the Stromatolites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In Australia, sheep out number people 2.5 to 1 (in 2020).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation, with over 80 percent of Australian adults engaging in gambling of some kind.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Canberra was selected as the capital because Sydney and Melbourne could not stop arguing which city should be the capital.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is home to the longest fence in the world, the Dingo Fence. Originally built to keep dingos away from fertile land, the fence is now 5,614 km long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Australian dollar is considered to be the most advanced currency in the world \u2013 it\u2019s waterproof, made of polymer and notoriously hard to counterfeit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is the only continent covered by a single country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The world\u2019s oldest fossil was discovered in Australia \u2013 3.4 billion years old.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia has around 600 varieties of eucalypt trees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Stonemasons in Australia instituted the 8-hour working day back in 1856.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In Aboriginal culture women are not allowed to play to the didgeridoo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The venom of the elusive platypus can kill a small dog.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia\u2019s most deadly marine animal is the Box Jellyfish, and is responsible for more deaths per year than snakes, sharks and saltwater crocodiles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The only two mammals in the world that lay eggs are found in Australia \u2013 the echidna and platypus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to megafauna, three-metre tall kangaroos, seven-metre long goanna\u2019s, horse-sized ducks, and a marsupial lion the size of a leopard.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Both kangaroos and emus lack the ability to walk backwards. This was the reason they were chosen for Australia\u2019s coat of arms \u2013 to symbolise a country always moving forward.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The termite mounds that can be found in Australia are the tallest animal-made structures on earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Australia is home to more than 1,500 species of spiders.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Great Victoria Desert is bigger than the whole of the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75857 size-thumbnail alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Desmond-Kelly160-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Desmond Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>(Editor-in-Chief) e\u2019Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;THE LAND DOWN UNDER&#8221; \u2013 by Des Kelly It does happen to be the Country that most Sri Lankans migrated to, when things began to get tough in our Motherland. 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