This Is Why Australia Is A Sacred Country

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Terra Australis Incognita - Unknown southern land. It is here, in Australia, that one of the most mysterious countries on Earth is located.

What is on the other side of the globe? Or on the back of a flat disc? Now you will see that Australia is not just very far away, but also very seditious.

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Let's start with cute animals. Only in Australia, and nowhere else, marsupial species of animals, for example, koalas, live. An interesting fact is that koalas, like humans and primates, have a papillary pattern on their fingertips. Koalas' fingerprints are so similar to human fingerprints that they are difficult to distinguish even under an electron microscope. Maybe they were once human?

Marsupial wolves lived in Australia, they are also Tasmanian tigers. But they were quickly given the end of the world. Who and why? More on this later. There is also a wombat - a marsupial comrade similar to a bear cub.

Well, the most famous type of marsupial, which, unlike the Tasmanian tigers, is lucky to survive to this day, is the kangaroo. Why marsupials live only in Australia, write in the comments to this video, for us this is a mystery of nature.

And these are kookabars. When they scream, it feels like someone is laughing out loud somewhere.

And this is the famous Australian lira or lyrebird. You can give it a second name - copy-paste bird. She is able to copy absolutely any sound that she hears. Just listen to this and believe me - this is not editing, but real sound:

Only in Australia lives the platypus, which is both oviparous and mammal. Imagine hatched chicks sucking milk. This is not some kind of psychedelic, it looks like the procreation of platypuses.

Well, here's another fairly well-known fact: only this continent is home to the largest number of poisonous snakes and spiders in the world. Therefore, there is an unusual censorship here: in cartoons and children's programs, spiders cannot be positive or neutral characters so that children from childhood understand the danger they pose.

And in Australia it sometimes happens like this: … This is just the so-called invasion of spiders. However, knowledgeable people who have lived in Australia for a long time say that bees there are much more dangerous than spiders.

And then there are fire ants that were introduced completely by accident. Or a poisonous centipede, up to 30 centimeters long, or a stingray stingray, which is also life-threatening. The green kingdom is also not very friendly. Imagine that nettles have become a whole tree - in Australia, this is real.

Gympie-gimpy - grows in the Australian jungle and its burn is called the most painful. The terrifying plant contains one of the most persistent toxins known to man, so the burning sensation can last up to two years after contact! There is even a known story of a man who, due to inexperience, used a gimpi-gimpi sheet as toilet paper, but after contact with such a burdock, a fatal outcome occurred.

In general, this can be finished. It would seem that Australia is now the world champion of disgusting and dangerous creatures of medium and small sizes.

But in fact, in the history of the continent there were characters and more terrible than spiders with snakes.

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250 years ago, the British expedition of James Cook aboard the ship Endeavor explored and mapped the east coast of Australia.

But it was not eaten in Australia, more about it some other time. A fleet of 11 sailing ships sailed from the coast of Britain and arrived on the shores of Australia, bringing mainly exiled convicts.

This fleet marked the beginning of both the transport of prisoners from England to Australia, and the development and settlement of Australia.

Thus, the Aboriginal people of Australia are "lucky", in quotation marks. Their neighbors were mainly British criminals, whom they decided to get rid of in the Old World. In addition, these were young men without a corresponding number of women.

In 1801, French ships under the command of Admiral Nicolas Boden explored the southern and western parts of Australia. After which the British decided to proclaim their formal possession of Tasmania and began to create new settlements in Australia.

In 1826, the Governor of New South Wales announced the extension of the British king's power to the entire continent. New lands were actively developed by Europeans.

Where did the indigenous people of Australia and Tasmania go?

By 1788, the indigenous population of Australia was, according to various estimates, from 300 thousand to 1 million people, united in more than 500 tribes, the dialect of each tribe was not melodiously similar to any of the African, European or Asian languages.