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  2. INTRODUCTION.

    Australia, nationally speaking, will be a hundred years old on the 20th of January, 1888. This, therefore, is our Centennial year, and in the midst of our ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  3. AUSTRALIA.

    Australia, including Tasmania, lies between 10 and 45 degrees of latitude and 110 and 158 degrees E. longitude. The continent extends 2400 miles east and west, and 1971 miles north and south. It area is about ...

    Article : 1,083 words
  4. EXPLORATIONS.

    After the visits of the early navigators the first real attempts at exploration and discovery were made by Bass and Flinders, Flinders made a chart of his discoveries, and wrote an account of his voyages. In ...

    Article : 881 words
  5. THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF AUSTRALIA.

    The animals which constitute the fauna of Australia comprise species which are amongst the oldest mammals known, and which cannot be met with in other portions of the world. Including carnivorous, ...

    Article : 2,143 words
  6. CLIMATE.

    No climate is so much misunderstood as that of Australia. Because it is in the Southern Hemisphere people-are apt to-make the mistake of supposing that our climate is fitter for Hottentots than for Europeans. In ...

    Article : 573 words
  7. THE ABORIGINES.

    The Australian race, which is rapidly di[?]ing with the progress of European settlement, is probably of great antiquity. Its origin is a question which is keenly debated amongst ethnologists. In certain ...

    Article : 1,967 words
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