- Australia is the driest of any continent on earth other than Antarctica
- The Great Barrier Reef is regarded as the world’s largest living organism, and is often listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World
- Australia is the only continent covered by a single country
- The highest mountain in Australia is Mt Kosciuszko, which stands 2228m high. Australia as a whole is a fairly flat country, with relatively few mountain ranges given its size.
- The Daintree Rainforest, found in tropical north Queensland, is the country’s largest and covers around 1,200 square kilometres
- The Aussie state of Tasmania has the world’s cleanest air
- While mining is one of Australia’s biggest industries, more land is covered by pubs than mines
- Uluru (Ayers Rock) is known as the largest monolith in the world and is over 8km wide at its widest point
- Australia is home to the world’s largest cattle ranch – which is bigger than the entire country of Belgium
- Australia is the 6th largest country in the world in terms of land area
- Australia’s dingo fence is longer than the Great Wall of China
- The Nullarbor Plain is home to the longest straight road in the world, at 146km long
- Australia is the only continent in the world without an active volcano
- The termite mounds that can be found in Australia are the tallest animal-made structures on Earth
- Melbourne has the largest public tram system in the world
- The Gold Coast has the world’s largest canal system, which is larger than those of both Venice and Amsterdam combined
- Canberra was built specifically to be Australia’s capital city as both Sydney and Melbourne had reasons for being denied