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>At 3,000,000 square miles, roughly 80% of the US, Australia is the world’s largest inhabited island and smallest continent. It is also the oldest landmass on earth.
>Australia is home to 20 million people and more than 150 million sheep.
>The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world, extending 1250 miles.
>European settlers first brought grapevines to Australia in 1788. Viticulturist James Busby planted the country’s first serious vineyard in the 1830s. Today, there are 1900+ wineries scattered along the temperate southern and southwestern coastal regions of the country.
>Australia has 62 wine regions, broken into more than 100 sub-appellations totaling 170,000 hecatres.
>Australia’s most important wine regions are located in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. Tasmania, a small island 150 miles south of Victoria, shows intriguing potential.
>Australia is the world’s sixth largest producer and fourth-largest exporter of wine. Currently, Australian wineries export to 100 different countries.
>In 2006, Australia sold 24.5 million cases (one quarter of all wine exports) to the United States.
>Australians consume 2.5 times as much wine per capita as Americans.
>The modern era of winemaking began in the 1960s when the wine industry eschewed the sweet, alcoholic wines of the past and embraced the clean, lush table wines of today.
>The adult male Kangaroo is called a buck, boomer or jack. An adult female is a doe, flyer or jill. Young kangaroos are joeys. A group of kangaroos is mob. A full-grown Red Kangaroo can be six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds. It has been clocked at nearly 40 mph and can jump 10 feet in the air.
>Australia is known for its many innovations in viticulture, enology and marketing. A number of California’s current farming, winemaking, marketing and sales techniques were developed and refined in Australia.
>The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a thickset arboreal marsupial herbivore native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae. It is not a Bear.
>Eucalyptus (From Greek, ευκάλυπτος meaning "well covered") is a diverse genus of trees (and a few shrubs), the members of which dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are more than seven hundred species of Eucalyptus, mostly native to Australia. Members of the genus can be found in almost every region of the Australian continent, because they have adapted to all of its climatic conditions; in fact no other continent is so characterised by a single genus of tree as Australia is by its eucalyptus. Many, but far from all, are known as gum trees in reference to the habit of many species to exude copious sap from any break in the bark (e.g. Scribbly Gum).
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