Australia is the world's sixth largest country and the largest island. It is an island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a countr. It is also the only nation that began as a prison.
Australia is the home of the largest living thing on earth- the Great Barrier Reef. It also has more things that will kill you than anywhere else. The world's ten most poisonous snakes are all from Australia. Five of its creatures- the funnel web spider, box jellyfish, blue-ringed octopus, paralysis tick and stonefish are the most dangerous of their type 8n the world. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can have a poisonous bite, and where seashells will not just sting you but will actually try to attack you sometimes.
It's a tough place, but there is no place in the world like it. There still isn't. Eighty percent of all the plants and animals that live in Australia cannot be found anywhere else- a fact even more astonishing considering the harsh climate in the continent. Australia is the driest, flattest, hottest, most climatically aggressive of all the continents. And yet it teems with life in numbers that are still uncounted. For insects alone, scientists have no idea whether the total number of species is 100,000 or double that number. As many as a third of those species remain completely unknown to science.
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