Australia’s

Must-see
Places
Plan
1. Sydney Opera House
2. Sydney Harbour Bridge
3. Melbourne
4. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
5. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
6. Blue Mountains National Park
7. Conclusions
Sydney Opera House
More than 10.9 million people visit the Opera
House every year.

233 designs were submitted for the Opera House

international design competition held in 1956.
Jørn Utzon from Denmark was announced the
winner, receiving ₤5000 for his design
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
The construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge began
on 28 July 1923, using the labour of 1,400 workers
and was completed eight years later. Approximately
six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of
steel were used in the construction, and 272,000
litres of paint were used.
 Melbourne

Between 1901 and

1927 Melbourne was
Australia’s capital city.

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Great Barrier Reef
Marine Park
Over 2,000 species of animals call the reef
home, including over 1,500 species of fish,
over 200 species of birds, 6 species of sea
turtles and over 30 species of
whales and dolphins

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Google offers an 'underwater street view' of the Great
Barrier Reef where you can virtually swim around th
e reefs for a first-hand point of view
Uluru-Kata Tjuta
National Park
Uluru is big, but most of its mass is
buried under the surrounding desert.
Uluru as we see it today was created by
millions of years of erosion of the softer
surrounding rock. Beneath the surface,
Uluru extends at least another 2.5kms.
Blue Mountains
National Park
The Blue Mountains is the site of the
steepest funicular railway in the world –
the Scenic Railway in Katoomba
(originally a mining tramway
constructed between 1878 and 1900 to
transport coal). The cable train has a
maximum gradient of 52 degrees as it
descends through rock cliffs for 415
metres.
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