Topic – Australia
people gradually brought an end to the traditional Aboriginal way of life. Nowadays there are about half a
million aborigines living in Australia.
9 . Plants
The west of the continent give place to savannahs and further west the trees disappear and give place to
bushlands. The real desert occupies the center of the Western Plateau. In the very southwest there are
thin forests of evergreen trees. Most of the Australian trees are various kinds of eucalyptus and accacia.
Some eucalyptuses are small bushes in the semideserts, some are the main trees in the savannah but the
biggest grow as tall as a hundred metres and form forests in the east. Eucalyptus trees give people timber
and eucalyptus oil. Of six hundred kinds of acacias the golden wattle, the national flower of Australia, is
the best known.
10 . Culture
The modern culture of Australia draws from many sources including native Australians, the United
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