Australia.
Australia with Captain Phillip. They landed in Port Jackson on January 26th in 1788 and that
day is now called Australia Day. It is the biggest day of celebration in the country and in
observed as a public holiday in all the states and territories of Australia.
During the 1850s, settlement was boosted by gold rushes. Gold was first found at
Bayhurst in 1851.
The idea of unifying all the states first came to Earl Grey in 1847. On the 1st of
January, in1901, Australian colonies federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia had declared independence from the federation of UK colonies.
As neither Sydney nor Melbourne was an acceptable new capital, a new city
Canberra was built as a result of an architectural competition.
Geographical position:
Australia is located in the Southern Hemisphere and it's the smallest continent in the
world
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