Born in 1973, Cathy Freeman became an Australian sports legend and most famously represented the country during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She is a former sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres dash event at the Olympics. She did sometimes compete in other types of track events, but her main focus was the 400-metre dash …
Kakadu National Park is the most extensive national parkland in all of Australia. The park is packed with ancient, natural landscapes that give tourists a glimpse of the world before human encroachment. It has many massive waterfalls, dense rainforests, luscious wetlands, as well as Aboriginal rock are and exotic native wildlife. The parkland covers roughly …
Uluru is a natural sandstone formation that exists very close to the geographical centre point of the Australian continent. Uluru is a sacred site for the local Aboriginal people of that area in central Australia. It is also listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was named Ayres Rock in honour of the …
The Three Sisters are a rock formation in the Jamison Valley, located in the Blue Mountains regions of New South Wales in Australia. They are called The Three Sisters because of an Aboriginal legend that suggests the 3 distinct rock formations were once people. Each rock is named (Meehni, Wimlah, and Gunnedoo). Meehni is the …
The Twelve Apostle is a series of majestic limestone stacks that exist just off the shoreline of the Port Campbell National Park. They exist near the Great Ocean Road that is located in Victoria in Australia. The proximity of the limestone stacks to one another made them noteworthy, and they quickly became a popular tourist …
