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Australia - Indigenous, Multicultural, Immigration: Today the population of Australia consists of more than 270 ethnic groups. Until the mid-20th century, however, Australian society was, with some accuracy, regarded in the wider world as essentially British—or at any rate Anglo-Celtic. The ties to Britain and Ireland were scarcely affected by immigration from other sources until then.
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Australia - Geologic History: The earliest known manifestations of the geologic record of the Australian continent are 4.4-billion-year-old detrital grains of zircon in metasedimentary rocks that were deposited from 3.7 to 3.3 billion years ago. Based on that and other findings, the Precambrian rocks in Australia have been determined to range in age from about 3.7 billion to 541 million years ...
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Australia - Culture, Diversity, Indigenous: Australia's isolation as an island continent has done much to shape—and inhibit—its culture. The Aboriginal peoples developed their accommodation with the environment over a period of at least 40,000 years, during which time they had little contact with the outside world. When Britain settled New South Wales as a penal colony in 1788, it did so ...
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Canberra, federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia. It occupies part of the Australian Capital Territory, in southern Australia, and is about 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Sydney. Canberra lies astride the Molonglo River, which is a tributary of the Murrumbidgee River.
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Australia, officially Commonwealth of Australia , Smallest continent and sixth largest country (in area) on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans. ... Capital: Canberra. Most Australians are descendants of Europeans. The largest nonwhite minority is the Australian Aborigine population. The Asian portion of the population has grown ...
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National flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the Union Jack in the canton and six white stars. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.Thought was given to an all-Australian flag long before confederation was achieved on January 1, 1901. For example, in 1823 a National Colonial Flag
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There are eight capital cities in Australia, each of which functions as the seat of government for the state or territory in which it is located. One of these, Canberra, is also the national capital. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australia specified that the seat of the national government, that is, the national capital, would be in its ...
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country.Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils.
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Canberra is the capital of the Federation of Australia and has been in place since 1913. The 100th anniversary of Canberra as the capital was held on May 12, 2013, celebrating the developments of the city. Initially, the capital was Melbourne until 1927 when it was transferred to Canberra. Australia is the smallest continent and the sixth ...
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Australia contains six states—New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and Tasmania—and two internal territories—the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, which contains Canberra.
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