Australia1112 澳大利亚英语简介PPT概要1.ppt

formative arts * * As a result of colonial history, the culture in Aus is…… 500 tribes does not place the human species apart from or on a higher level than nature AUSTRALIA Numbers: Introduction/History Government/Economy Environment/Famous places 3 2 1 The people/Culture 4 PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE PART FOUR Introduction History Name : Student Number: 1 ◆ Mountain ranges run from north to south along the east coast, reaching their highest point in Mount Kosciusko (7,308 ft; 2,228 m). The western half of the continent is occupied by a desert plateau that rises into barren, rolling hills near the west coast. ◆ Australia, The Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. ◆ The Great Barrier Reef, extending about 1,245 mi (2,000 km), lies along the northeast coast. The island of Tasmania (26,178 sq mi; 67,800 sq km) is off the southeast coast. Introduction History At about 40000 years ago, the first in habitants Aborigines ,from Southeast Asia, migrated here. Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish ships sighted Australia in the 17th cuntury. Autralia had various gold rushes and minerals, which attracted settlers The settlers established six colonies: New South Wales (1786), Tasmania (then Van Diemens Land) (1825), Western Australia (1829), South Australia (1834), Victoria (1851), and Queensland (1859). The Dutch landed at the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1606. In 1616 the territory became known as New Holland. The British arrived in 1688, but it was not until Captain James Cooks voyage in 1770 that Great Britain claimed possession of the vast island, calling it New South Wales. A British penal colony was set up at Port Jackson (what is now Sydney) in 1788, and about 161,000 transported English convicts were settled there until the system was suspended in 1839. In 1901 the six colonies became states and fede