Iconic landmarks

ICONIC LANDMARKS
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 Uluru-Kata
• It’s located in Northern Australia.
• It is a 600 million-year-old rock formation – it’s
even older than the dinossaurs!
 The Grand Canyon
• It’s located in Arizona, in the USA.
• This huge rock formation has got 1.2 billion-year-old fossils!
• Right now, the most dangerous living species there is a
squirrel!
 Stonehenge
• It’s located in Salisbury, in the UK.
• This man-made stone circle is one of the biggest
secrets in the world… No one knows how or why it
was built!
 The Cradle of Humankind
• It’s located in Maropeng, in South Africa.
• It has got some of the oldest human fossils.
• The oldest fossil is 2.3 million years old!
 Hadrian’s Wall
• It’s located in Brampton, in the UK.
• It was built for protection almost 2000 years ago.
• It inspired The Wall in Game of Thrones.
 The Great Barrier Reef
• It’s located off the coast of Queensland, in
Australia.
• This reef is the biggest living thing on Earth. It’s so
big that you can even see it from space!
 The Jurassic Coast
• It’s located along the English Channel, in the UK.
• Lots of ancient marine fossils were found in caves
along this coast.
• Many are from the Jurassic period!
 The Voortrekker Monument
• It’s located in Pretoria, in South Africa.
• The shape of the building is so weird that people
say it looks like a wedding cake or a radio!
 The Statue of Liberty
• It’s located in New York, in the USA.
• This famous statue is as tall as Big Ben and weighs
as much as two blue whales!
• It was a present from France!
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60 thousand
100 million
600 million
6 billion
Uluru-Kata is over … years old.

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600 million
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lions
squirrels
snakes
crocodiles
The most dangerous species
in the Grand Canyon are ... .

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squirrels
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The Grand Canyon

Stonehenge
The Statue of Liberty
Hadrian’s Wall
To this day, no one knows
why or how they built … .

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Stonehenge
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The Cradle of
Humankind
The Grand Canyon
The Statue of Liberty
Hadrian’s Wall
The oldest human fossils can be found in
... .

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The Cradle of Humankind
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The Jurassic Coast

Hadrian’s Wall
The Grand Canyon
Stonehenge
… was the inspiration for the
famous wall in Game of Thrones.

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Hadrian’s Wall
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The Great Barrier Reef

The Statue of Liberty
The Jurassic Coast
Uluru-Kata
You can see … all the way up from space!

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The Great Barrier Reef
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human fossils
bacteria fossils
plant fossils
marine fossils
In the Jurassic Coast caves
you can find lots of ancient … .

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marine fossils
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birthday cake
slice of bread
wedding cake
slice of cake
Lots of people say that the
Voortrekker Monument looks like a … .

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wedding cake
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one airplane
two blue whales
four sharks
three houses
The Statue of Liberty is as heavy as … .

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two blue whales