Australia Holiday Destinations
 

States of Australia

  


Canberra - Australian Capital Territory

Ten facts about Australia

  • Australia is approx. 37 times the area of Gt. Britain

  • Population of Australia is approx 21,260,000

  • Aboriginal & Torres Strait people have lived in Australia for 60,000 years

  • There are around 455,000 aboriginal people in Australia

  • Australia comes from Latin for Southern "Australis"

  • Deserts cover 1,300,000 square miles of Australia

  • New Zealand is 1250 miles away across the Tasman sea

  • Dutchman, Willem Janszoon, was the first European to sight the Australian mainland

  • Australia is the world's flattest continent

  • 60% of the population live in 4 cities i.e. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide

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  Along the of coastline of Western Australia, the visitor is spoilt for choice with regards to many activities that are available.  Whilst the outback provides the visitor with a chance to get back to nature and see wildlife that the aboriginal people have known about and lived with for many thousands of years. There is much else to see here - Read more
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory and being tropical has an all year round temperature of about 32º C.  Darwin is an excellent base from which to explore the coastline of the Timor sea, the states national parks and the outback.  The vast majority of the area is desert and, as such, is only sparsely populated. Most of the population are located along the Stuart Highway, the road that links Darwin to South Australia. Read more
Queensland is known as the sunshine state due to it's warm tropical climate, with minimum annual mean temperatures ranging from 14ºC in Brisbane in the south west  to 20ºC in Cairns in the north east.  The state is home to many coastal attractions that includes the Great Barrier Reef - reason enough to visit Australia. Read more.

The capital city of New South Wales is Sydney, famous, amongst other things, for it's harbour bridge and it's opera house.  Tourism is becoming increasingly important to the state with a growing number of visitors sampling the delights of the North Coast of the state as well as of Sydney itself.  Read more
Victoria is the most densely populated state of Australia, the capital of which is Melbourne.  There's lots to see and do in this state. As well as the many attractions of Melbourne there are former gold fields, mountains and beaches to explore and, for the activist a multitude of sporting activities available to take part in or watch.  Read more.
Across the Bass Strait from the Australian mainland lies that state of Tasmania one of the islands of which has the same name.  The state now has a booming tourist industry based on Tasmania Island's largely unspoilt, natural environment that has given rise to a number of nature reserves, national parks and World Heritage sites. Read more.
South Australia is a wild life extravaganza as well as a paradise for people who love their wine and food.  The scenery ranges from rugged cliffs at the coast to thge wide flat salt pans of the interior.  The traveller may well elect to choose Adelaide for a base but the more adventurous may prefer to get back to nature in a luxury outback camp. Read more