10 interesting things about Aussie

1. Australia is the smallest , flattest , driest inhabited continent in the world

2. Captain James Cook from Middlebrough, North Yorkshire explored the east coast of Australia in the 1770s by mapping some of the coastline and setting foot in Botany Bay

3. A few days after the "First Fleet" arrived in January 1788, a French expedition arrived at what is now Sydney

4. In 1840's England began sending convicts making the east coast big penal colony

5. Not all Aboriginies could vote until 1971

6. The wombat deposits SQUARE POOS on logs ,rocks even upright sticks to mark its territory

7. The box Jelly fish is known as the worlds most venomous marine creature and has killed more Australians then sharks , crocodiles , and stone fish combined

8. Melbourne once was the capital before they made Canberra

9. Queensland has the largest and most profitable narrow-gauge railway system in the world

10. It has been said that the Maori of New Zealand knew there was land to the west because they had seen smoke from Australian bushfires blowing eastwards