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Camille and Alice tell us about New South Wales in Australia

New South Wales

Official information

Name: New South Wales

Where is it ? In the east of Australia.

Language: English

Money: Australian dollars

Capital: Sydney

Queen: Elizabeth II


Activities and nature

If you go to New South Wales, you’ll see kangaroos, koalas, crocodiles, sea stars, dauphins, whales and a lot of fishes in the ocean. But don’t forget… the kookaburra !

Do you like sports ? In New South Wales you can dive, surf or do water sports. But if you prefer to have a rest, you can go to beaches or concerts and visit Sydney and parks.

Sydney

Sydney is the New South Wales’s capital. It’s a very famous, big and wonderful town. How many beaches do you think are there in Sydney ? 70 beaches ! Very many ! In Sydney you can see the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge, the most famous monuments of the town.

Facts

Sydney is home to people of 140 cultures, who speak more than 80 languages.

In September, 1993, Sydney was announced as host city of the year 2000 Olympic Games. Homebush Bay is the site of Olympic Park and the athletes’ village.

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New South Wales is a beautiful region. You can discover the nature, the history, the culture of the Aborigines… You can do all the sports, make excursions, camp… Australia is a very famous continent and you can visit it and meet its inhabitants. It’s a mysterious, wonderful and interesting country.

The 2008 Olympics

The Olympic Games

The olympic Games were founded by the Greek in 776 BC but they stopped. The Olympic Games were reinvented again by a Frenchman, Pierre de Coubertin. The goal of the Olympic movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world.

In 2008 the Olympic Games were in Bejiing (China). The winners were the Chinese with 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 28 bronze medals (a total of 100 medals). They were good in gymnastics. The second was the USA with 36 gold medals and a total of 110 medals. They won lots of medals in swimming. Third was the Russians with 72 medals and the fourth was Great-Britain (47 medals). In these Olympic Games there were 204 countries.

The next Olympic Games will be held in London in 2012 – see you there!

Loïc HERMANN

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

http://www.olympic.org/uk/passion/studies/index_uk.asp

About Australian Aborigines

The Australian Aborigines

The first aborigines came from Asia 40 000 years ago. There were 750 000 before colonisation (18th century), and there are 400 000 today (250 tribes)they live on reserves today .They’re good painters and they painted the dreamtime .They speak an aboriginal langage.

In 1967 the aborigines were given voting rights.


Text written by Anne-Michèle Heinrich.