1. There are a mere 20 million people in Australia comparison to the 150 million sheep.

2. Did you know that the Great Barrier Reef has its own mailbox? If you’re prepared to take a ferry ride out there, you can send a postcard to your loved ones and get the exclusive stamp!

3. Originally, Australia was a British penal colony, a remote location used to exile prisoners away from the rest of the population. In fact, Australia Day - January 26 - is the anniversary of ships arriving in Sydney carrying lots of British convicts!

4. Melbourne and Sydney couldn’t decide which city should be the capital of Australia, so it was agreed neither of them should be. Instead, a new capital called Canberra would be built in the middle, probably decided over a beer!

5. The world’s longest fence is known as The Dingo Fence is approximately 5,614 kilometres long, starting in Queensland at Jimbour and carrying on to the Great Australian Bight in South Australia.

6. The largest cattle station in the world is Anna Creek Station in South Australia. The ranch is approximately 6,000,000 acres which is slightly larger than Israel and eight times the size of the United States biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 825,000 acres.

7. If the fully welded rails of the Ghan railway weren't restrained properly, on a hot day in the outback desert they would expand at 200km/hour and at the Darwin end they'd stick out 1.1 km into the ocean.

8. There are around 1500 species of Australian spiders and on average, each person swallows three spiders a year.

9. Australia is the biggest island yet the smallest continent in the world. It is the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands. The mainland island being both the largest island and the smallest, flattest continent on Earth.

10. In land area, Australia is the world’s sixth-largest country after Russia, Canada, China, the United States of America and Brazil. However, it’s surprising that in relations it has quite a small population.

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