澳大利亚国家概况(地理和人文)TheLandandthePeoplesoftheDreaming(终)资料.ppt

The land and the Peoples of dreaming Distinctive（独特的） features of the land The continent of Australia lies between equatorial（赤道附近的） South East Asia and the Antarctic（南极附近的） The area is 7682300k㎡ which equals that of the United States. The largest island in the world It is also the smallest, flattest, driest continent in the world the Great dividing Ganging the Great Barrier Reef The platypus(鸭嘴兽) 1. the world’s most unusual animal 2.small;web-footed; egg-laying mammal（哺乳动物）with a bill like a duck and can stay under water for as long as 14 minutes Unique animals in Australia the kangaroo（袋鼠） 1. it sits upright on its extremely powerful back legs and moves by jumping 2.it is a marsupial （有袋动物）;the baby lives in the mother’s pouch until they are ready to fend for themselves Unique animals in Australia the koala（树袋熊） 1. anther marsupial but one which looks like a small, woolly, grey and white bear 2.it lives mainly in the branches of trees, especially the eucalyptus （桉树） Unique animals in Australia the wombat（毛鼻袋熊） 1.a squat, round, bear-like, burrowing （挖地洞）marsupial, about one meter in length, 2.with short legs, small ears and eyes and a thick, coarse（粗糙的） fur of brown or grey In the north: tropical（热带的） rainforests In the southeast: snowfields occupy the plateau（平原） landscapes In the center and the western: two thirds of the lands is dessert or semi dessert The landscape of the country The people The people of the dreaming belonged to over 500 different groups or nations with different language and culture but they were bound together by their beliefs in the Dreaming （梦创时代） The earliest discovered site of occupation is about 47000 years old ,18500 generation There were somewhere between 200 to 250 different language spoken on the continent ,about 20 of them are still exist and very strong. In 1770, British navigator （航海家）James Cook arrived in the east coast of Australia ,proclaimed that UK possessed the land . Since the First