你认为你很了解澳洲吗？看看下面的12件事再说。

1. 澳洲有7550万只羊，6000万只袋鼠。羊数为人数的3.3倍。

2. 澳洲最大的地产比以色列还大。南澳的Anna Creek Station 占地24,000平方公里，是世界上最大的牧牛场。

3. 澳洲人每年吃掉2.7亿个肉馅饼。

4. 在1828至1902年间，白天在海滩游泳是非法的，直到Manly海滩的一个游泳者对此法律表示蔑视才使得此最受欢迎的休闲活动成为可能。

5. 澳洲有世界上20%的老虎机，澳洲有世界上0.33%的人口。

6. 1880年代墨尔本由于黄金成为世界上最富有的城市之一，也是矿业和农业殖民地的中心。

7. 澳式足球本来的目的是要板球员在非赛季保持体能，但是现在成了澳洲最大规模的足球运动。

8. 澳洲的野生骆驼问题得到了沙特的帮助。沙特进口澳洲的骆驼的肉和奶制品。

9. 澳洲有1万处海滩。每天去一处海滩要27年才能走完。

10. 澳洲最大的选区是西澳的Durack，2905公里长，占160万平方公里，相当于从伦敦到伊斯坦布尔。

11. 澳洲国徽选择袋鼠和鸸鹋是因为他们不会后退，象征着澳洲勇往直前。我们也是为数不多吃国徽上动物的国家。

12. 2010年澳洲大选的吉拉德和艾伯特的电视辩论不得不为Masterchef的决赛播出让路。

How much do you really know about Australia?

THINK you know all there is about our vast, sunburnt land? Think again. Australia is full of unusual facts that are bound to surprise you. Here are 12 things you need to know.

1. There are around 75.5 million sheep and 60 million kangaroos in Australia. That’s 3.3 times as many sheep as there are people.

2. The largest property in Australia is bigger than Israel. Anna Creek Station in South Australia covers almost 24,000 square kilometres, making it the largest cattle station in the world.

3. Australians eat 270 million pies per year.

4. From 1828 to 1902 it was illegal to swim at a beach during daylight hours until a swimmer at Manly Beach defied the law paving the way for our favourite national pastime.

5. We have 20 per cent of the world’s poker machines but only 0.33 per cent of the world’s population.

6. In the 1880s Melbourne was one of the richest cities in the world due to its commercial production of gold. It was also the centre for the rich mining and agricultural colonies.

7. The AFL was originally started as a way to keep cricketers fit in the off-season and has now developed into our biggest national footy code.

8. Australia’s feral camel problem has been given a helping hand by Saudi Arabia who now import our camels for meat and milk production.

9. There are more than 10,000 beaches in Australia. Visiting a new one every day would take you around 27 years.

10. The biggest electorate in Australia is Durack in Western Australia. Stretching 2,905 kilometres and covering almost 1.6 million square kilometres its like driving from London to Istanbul.

11. The kangaroo and emu were chosen for our coat of arms as neither of them can walk backwards, symbolising a nation that moves forward. We are also one of the few countries to actually eat their coat of arms.

12. The 2010 Australian election television debate between Gillard and Abbott had to be rescheduled so that it didn’t conflict with the finale of hugely popular reality cooking show Masterchef.