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Here we have a few fun and interesting facts from Australia – I’ll add more of these every now and then, sure makes for an interesting read!

• Australia is the worlds biggest island and also the smallest continent (bizarre right?!).
• The largest organic construction on earth is in Australia and is known as the Great Barrier Reef (been there, must visit!).
• Tasmania is know to have the cleanest air in the world (who knew?).
• In 1954 Bob Hawke (former Prime Minister) made it into the Guinness Book of Records – why? He drank 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds (he was a bit of a larrikin wasn’t he?).
• There are 1500 hundred species of Australian spiders (eek!).
• There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, and only 21.8 million people (as of june 2009).
• Australia has the biggest number of wild one humped camels in the world (i don’t really know what to say about that).
• The city of Melbourne in Australia has the largest Greek population in the world outside of Athens Greece (not surprising).

No wonder they call Australia the land of wonders – this is just a drop in the ocean of fun facts available for our great land.