Australia: History Facts for Students

Australia History Powerpoints for Kids and Teachers

Australian Government Culture Portal: Find out about Australia's history and heritage, Indigenous culture, the arts and recreation.

Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Complete facts about Australia and its people, Australia and the world, Australia's society and culture, and visiting Australia

Australian History: Traces Australian history back to the ancient times of Gwondaland, the dinosaurs, the Aborigines right through to the colonization of the country by the English, the World Wars and the modern era.

Facts about Australia

Project Gutenberg Australia: A comprehensive listing of resources relating to Australian history with links to the specific resources

Wikipedia: History of Australia: Complete facts and descriptions

Australian Government: The Australian connection to Australian government

Department of Immigration and Border Protection

Parliament of Australia

National Museum of Australia: Find out about the History of Australia and it people

*Australia, a country and the smallest continent in the world, is located southeast of Asia.

"Australia is often referred to "the land down under" because its location falls below the equator, and is officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia.

*Canberra is the capital of Australia.

*Sydney is the largest city in Australia, and is home to one of the most unique buildings in the word, the Sydne Opera House.

*Tasmania, an Australian island, is the twenty-sixth largest island in the world, and home to beautiful waterfalls, mountains, rivers and lakes.

*The very first people to inhabit Australia were the aborigines, a people considered to be native to Australia.

*One of the seven wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef which is 80,000 square miles, is located in the water surrounding Australia, and is home to the world's largest deposit of coral.

*The Australian Outback, a very sandy and dry place, is located in the middle of the country.

*Australia's climate has four seasons, but those seasons are opposite to those in the United States.

*The Australian Outback is home to a wide variety of animals.

*Australia's spiders are scary to look at, and their bites are often poisonous!

The History Channel: Each month the History Channel takes new explorations into the past and puts them on display for you, utilizing state-of-the-art interactive technology; listen to speeches drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the Twentieth Century. The History Channel Time Machine brings you to a different speech every day; trivia quiz; fact of the day; games

The Biographic Dictionary: Covers more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day- SEARCHABLE by keyword

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Encyclopedia Smithsonian features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources from A to Z

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