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Tour to Australia - is an opportunity to see the unique natural world and landscapes, relax on golden sand beaches. The main resorts in Australia are on the east coast

Australia is washed by the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the largest island continent. The Great Dividing Range - мountain Range stretching from north to south along the east coast of the country, separates plains of the east coast from dry inlands in the west. A pearl of the country - Great Barrier Reef is located in 50-300 km from the mainland, and extends for nearly 2000 km from the Torres Strait in the south to the port of Gladstone in the north. Australia is famous for its unique flora and fauna.It has a rich variety of endemic legume species that thrive in nutrient-poor soils because of their symbiosis with rhizobia bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi. Among well-known Australian fauna are the monotremes (the platypus and the echidna); a host of marsupials, including the kangaroo, the koala, and the wombat; the saltwater and freshwater crocodiles; and birds such as the emu and the kookaburra. Australia is home to many dangerous animals including some of the most venomous snakes in the world. The dingo was introduced by Austronesian people who traded with Indigenous Australians around 3000 BC. Many plant and animal species, including the Australian megafauna, became extinct soon after first human settlement; others have become extinct since European settlement, among them the thylacine. Everything in Australia surprises tourists - from ostriches to local marine and river crocodiles. The Australians carefully protect their nature –there are about 500 national parks in the country. Tour to Australia provides an opportunity to move from winter to summer and vice versa. The country is in the Southern Hemisphere and the seasons are opposite to the northern latitudes. Aboriginal Australians - indigenous people of Australia retained the longest and most continuous cultural tradition in the world, which began almost 100 000 years ago. According to most scientists human beings began to colonize the continent about 70000 years ago. The first people arrived here from Asia through the Indonesian archipelago. Archeologists call them "robust” for their large core. Only after 20000 years, they were replaced by ancestors of modern Australian aborigines with more "elegant" constitution. Europeans discovered Australia in the XVI century. The Portuguese, Dutch and then British replaced each other. Captain James Cook described the entire east coast in 1770. During a stop in Botany Bay, he declared Australia to be a territory of Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. For a long time the country became a place for links convicts from England and its colonies, and later – for immigrants from all over the world, who have assimilated its open spaces, making the country one of the leading suppliers of agricultural products, raw materials and industrial products. Holidays in Australia are for individual travelers. They travel to Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Darwin, to inner districts of the country - the Red rocks and places of Aboriginal residence, and then relax on the beaches of the Gold Coast. Australia - a paradise for surfers, a real Mecca for divers, golf fans from all over the world. Travel lovers can go along almost untouched by civilization ways of first settlers, discoverers of the continent. Australia - is a feast for gourmets. They may try the pride of local cuisine - crocodile and ostrich meat, incredible sea food delights, and enjoy local wines

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