Australia. Guide to Australia

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Australian Open, tournament "Grand Slam" - the Australian Open tennis in Melbourne started 17 January. Australian Open - one of the biggest sporting events held in Australia and the 99th time.

On the center court, "Melbourne Park", before the tournament, was performed revealing a mini-tournament, in order to raise money for the flood victims in Australia. In the mini-tournament, получившем название Rally for Relief, attended by world tennis superstar Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Samantha Stosur and Kim Clijsters.

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Australian echidna ( Tachyglossus aculeatus) - Egg-laying mammal of the family of echidnas, is found in Australia, on Tasmania, in New Guinea and the islands in Bass Strait. Australian echidna is the only representative of this kind of echidnas, its length - 30-45 cm, weight from 2,5 before 5 kg. The head is covered with coarse hair of vipers, neck is short, almost invisible from the outside, ears are not visible, echidna snout elongated into a narrow "beak" in length 75 mm, straight or slightly curved.

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Сидней. The Australian city of Sydney (Sydney) - Capital SydneyNew South Wales and the largest city in Australia with an area of 12144.6 km2 and a population of 4,50 million people.

Sydney was the site of the first colonial European settlement in Australia and is located on the southeast coast of Avstralii.Poselenie built on the shore of a beautiful little coves round - Sydney Cove ( Sydney cove), located in the middle of the bay unique extended Sydney Harbour - the southern branch of the Bay of Port Jackson, separated by a narrow strait from the Tasman Sea.

In what city was built south of the Sydney Harbor Bay, and then around, that was the reason, that Sydney is often called "near Bay City» ( The Harbour City).
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