Australia

Australia ( /əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. 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 south-east.

Satilite image of Australia (top right)

Australian female, designed to bring down fast-moving prey on the ground, so does not compete with the Koala for a tree-dwelling existence (middle right)

Koala, a type of tree-dwelling wombat, that is not threatened by the invasive primates, as Australia's great apes are ground-dwelling predators (see middle right), and so the Koala can continue to live live like a marsupial "Monkey" (bottom right)



Slide Show of Oz
All of the photos in this slide show where photographed in Australia and depict a range of habitats, animals and plants of Oz.