Australia and New Zealand

Come to Australia!

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Australia at a glance!

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Aussies vs New Zealand

Haka

100% Pure New Zealand

The first British person to see Darwin harbour (Australia) appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ship’s captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle.

A stalactite (from the Greek stalasso, (σταλάσσω), “to drip” and meaning “that which drips”) is a type of speleothem (secondary mineral) that hangs from the ceiling of limestone caves. It is a type of dripstone.
A stalagmite (from the Greek stalagma (“Σταλαγμίτης”), “drop” or “drip”) is a type of speleothem that rises from the floor of a limestone cave due to the dripping of mineralized solutions and the deposition of calcium carbonate. The corresponding formation on the ceiling of a cave is known as a stalactite. If these formations grow together, the result is known as a column.

metre noun (MEASUREMENT)
UK (US meter) /ˈmiː.tər/US pronunciation symbol/-t ̬ɚ/ n [C](written abbreviation m) a unit of measurement equal to 100 centimetres

Australia (pronounced /əˈstreɪljə/ ə-STRAYL-yə or /ɒˈstreɪljə/ o-STRAYL-yə,[7] or /ɔːˈstreɪliə/ aw-STRAY-lee-ə), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent (the world’s smallest),[8][9] the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The nation’s capital city is Canberra, located in the Australian Capital Territory.

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