Hotels in Australia
Tourists often want to stay at hotels in the nation of Australia. So they can have short term accommodation. Some tourists may want to stay at cheap hotels or luxury hotels. Some tourists may want to stay at hotels that have good reputation. Many tourists may want to stay at a large hotels or small hotels.
Hotels in the nation of Australia are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation in the nation. Some may want to stay at hotels that are a large or small. Some may want to stay at hotels that are luxury or cheap. Some may want to stay at hotels that have a good design. Some may want to stay at hotels that have new or classic designs. Some may want to stay at hotels that have a good access to parking.
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north east, and New Zealand to the sout east.
The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, lies a short distance off the north-east coast and extends for over 2,000 kilometres. Mount Augustus, claimed to be the world's largest monolith, is located in Western Australia. At 2,228 metres, Mount Kosciuszko on the Great Dividing Range is the highest mountain on the Australian mainland, although Mawson Peak on the remote Australian territory of Heard Island is taller at 2,745 metres.
These first Australians may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians; they may have arrived via land bridges and short sea crossings from what is now South-East Asia. Most of these people were hunter-gatherers, with a complex oral culture and spiritual values based on reverence for the land and a belief in the Dreamtime. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, inhabited the Torres Strait Islands and parts of far north Queensland; their cultural practices were and remain distinct from those of the Aborigines.
On 1 January 1901, the six colonies became a federation, and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Since Federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and remains a Commonwealth realm.
The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland was made by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, who sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in 1606. During the 17th century, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines of what they called New Holland, but they made no attempt at settlement. In 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast of Australia, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain.
Cook's discoveries prepared
the way for establishment of a new penal colony. The British Crown Colony of New
South Wales began a settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26
January 1788. This date was later to become Australia's national day, Australia
Day. Van Diemen's Land, now known as Tasmania, was settled in 1803 and became
a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the western part
of Australia in 1829. Separate colonies were created from parts of New South Wales:
South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, and Queensland in 1859. The Northern
Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia. South
Australia was founded as a, free province, that is, it was never a penal colony.
Victoria and Western Australia were also founded "free" but later accepted
transported convicts. The transportation of convicts to the colony of New South
Wales ceased in 1848 after a campaign by the settlers.
A gold rush began in Australia in the early 1850s, and the Eureka Stockade rebellion against mining licence fees in 1854 was an early expression of civil disobedience. Between 1855 and 1890, the six colonies individually gained responsible government, managing most of their own affairs while remaining part of the British Empire. The Colonial Office in London retained control of some matters, notably foreign affairs, defence, and international shipping. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies was achieved after a decade of planning, consultation, and voting. The Commonwealth of Australia was born as a dominion of the British Empire. The Federal Capital Territory (later renamed the Australian Capital Territory) was formed from a part of New South Wales in 1911 to provide a location for the proposed new federal capital of Canberra. (Melbourne was the temporary seat of government from 1901 to 1927 while Canberra was being constructed.) The Northern Territory was transferred from the control of the South Australian government to the Commonwealth in 1911. Australia willingly participated in World War I. Many Australians regard the defeat of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) at Gallipoli as the birth of the nation, its first major military action. The Kokoda Track Campaign is regarded by many as an analogous nation-defining event during World War II.
States
and territories of Australia
States and mainland territories
Australian
Capital Territory · New South Wales · Northern Territory ·
Queensland · South Australia · Tasmania · Victoria ·
Western Australia · Jervis Bay Territory
External territories Ashmore
and Cartier Islands · Australian Antarctic Territory · Christmas
Island · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · Coral Sea Islands · Heard
Island and McDonald Islands · Norfolk Island
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia.
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