Australia (2)

Harrison Nguyen

• GDP in billions $1,100
• GDP per capita $46,600
• Australia was nicknamed the “lucky country” because of the

resources and the vast mineral deposits
• 60% of the exports go to Asian nations
• The currency in Australia is the Australian dollar

• The official language spoken in Australia is English

• Colloquialisms and idioms make Australian English distinct from
English spoken from other places

• 61 percent of Australians are Christians, divided among 17%
Anglican, and 25% Roman Catholic

• Aboriginal beliefs are all based on legends of dreamtime

• zircon

• bauxite
• iron ore
• limonite
• alumina
• gold
• lithium
• manganese ore
• lead
• zinc
• uranium
• silver
• nickel
• black coal
• In every state in Australia, coal mining is carried out. However, the major producers are

Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales. Out of the total coal mined, as much as
60% is exported. A major part of it goes to countries in East Asia.

• The world’s second largest producer of gold is Australia, after China. Gold resources
are found in all the states as well as the Northern Territory, but the major deposits are in
South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales.

• Sydney, capital of New • Queensland is an Australian
South Wales and one of state covering the continent’s
Australia's largest cities, is northeast, with a coastline
best known for its harbor
front opera house, a stretching about 7,000km. Its
massive harbor, and an
arched harbor bridge offshore Great Barrier Reef,
the world’s largest coral reef
system

• Flag Bearers. 2008. Photograph. Collection of CultureGrams.
ProQuest, 2016. Web. 13 Apr 2016.

• World Youth Day Celebrations. Photography. Encyclopedia Britannica
ImageQuest. Web. 16 Apr 2016.

• Yorkshire Bank. Photography. Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 16 Apr
2016.

• AUSTRALIA: GOLD MINE, 1900. - A gold mine at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia,
c1900.. Fine Art. Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 17 Apr 2016.

• AUSTRALIA: GOLD MINE. - A gold mine photographed during the gold rush in
New South Wales in the 1870s.. Fine Art. Encyclopedia Britannica

• Harbour Sydney, Opera and Harbour Bridge in Sydney, New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia. Photography. Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 17
Apr 2016.

• Queensland, Australia.. Photography. Encyclopedia Britannica ImageQuest.
Web. 17 Apr 2016.