If you walk around a certain rock in Australia, you really go on a hike---a five-mile (8-kilometer) hike. This great rock is a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) long and a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide....
AUSTRALIA’S MEETING PLACE
Less than a hundred years ago, Australia was made up of six separate colonies. These colonies were ruled by the British. Then, in 1901, the colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Moomba!
Moomba Festival Moomba means \"get together and have fun." And that's just what the people of Melbourne, Australia, do at the yearly Moomba Festival. The Moomba Festival gets its name from the...
Australia celebrates
Australia Day January 26 Clink-clank-clink. Barefoot prisoners in chains trudge along the road. All around them are guards with rifles, ready to shoot to kill. But these people aren't really...
The first sea voyagers
For prehistoric people, the sea was a place where plenty of food could be found. They could wade in shallow water along the shore to gather clams and other shellfish. But they must certainly have...