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Uluru-Kata Tjuta is a national park in the Northern Territory of Australia. The park was founded in 1987 and is owned by the Aborigines. It is named after the two most sensational attractions, Uluru and Kata Tjuta.
Ayers Rock, also known by its Aboriginal name Uluru, is a sandstone mountain with a high height of 869 m. With his its red appearance, it is one of the most famous rocks of in the world. The color of the rock can changed from a fascinating blue to violet and glowing red. Because of his look Due to this many tourist visit and actually climb Ayers Rock. But the indigenous people of Australia doesn’t like don't like it when tourists climb the mountain because it is one of their sanctuaries. sanctuary of the Aborigines.
The Kata Tjuta are located in the national park, too. They are 1069 m high and large rock formations.
Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, which is a world cultural heritage site/area since 1987, is visited by 400.000 tourists every year. The National Park is also the home of a lot of plants and animals like emus, dingos and kangaroos.

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Kangaroo

The most exceptional animals in Australia are the kangaroos. They are a emblem and every tourist want to see one of it. This is not a problem. Because on the island live about 20 million kangaroos. You recognise them by their big ears, their short forelegs, their large powerful hind legs and of course by their bag, which is important for the young animal. The little kangaroo has neither hairs nor can it see or hear anything. That is why the newborne rest after a for 33 days gestation period in the bag till it is nine months old. In the bag are mammary glands. Without the mother it can not survive.
Big kangaroos can jump till 12 m and get a tempo of 70 km in a hour.
They are plant eater and subsist on grasses and leaves.
In Australia the hunt of kangaroos is a very popular sport and every year hundreds of kangaroos gonna killed because of their soft fleecy skin and their flesh.



The Aborigines

The Aborigines, the australian indigenous people, belongs to the oldest nations of the world. They are a fascinating culture, which is only develop for 200 years. Before the first europeans come in the 18th century live here nothing but the indigenous people. They make sure not to destroy the nature and take only that from the earth what they really want to survive. 200 years ago the Aborigines were effectively pulled from the Stone Age into the modern age. Therefore the culture is unfortunately faced with the ruin. The tourists see frequently the negative side from the dilemma. You see only these indigenous people who can not manage the civilised life, are homeless and live on the street in the city.


Koala

Koalas are found all along in the woods of Australians east cost and the before lying isles (es soll heißen: bevor liegenden Inseln). In the meantime there are 80,000 free-living koala bears. Such a koala have a weight from 4 kilos through to 15 kilos. They live in groups and colonies. They have a big head with a big black nose. Their ears are very hairy. Because of the grey, soft and thick skin they act (ist act das richtige verb für wirken in diesem fall ich habe kein besseres gefunden) squat. Due the fact that koala bears have not a tail their long claws are especially important. Koalas eat till to one kilo eucalyptus per day. They have not drink additional water because eucalyptus contains a lot of it. However, they prefer to sleep. They spend daily about 16 hours with it. Koala bears belongs to the marsupials. Only the female have a bag. To drink the mother’s milk the young animal goes back into the bag from their mother. If is the little koala to big for the bag it eat on the mothers belly. The koala was hunted in the 20th century for its fur.



Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital of the federal state Victoria. With a population of about 3.7 million it is the second largest town in Australia after Sydney. Melbourne was founded in 1835 is called after the previous Prime Minister Lord Melbourne. The town is Victoria’s most important economical, cultural and political centre. To the population of the town belongs a lot of chinese, italian, british and vietnam immigrants. The city which is chequered arranged, is the location from industrial concern, banks and insurances. The view of the city dominate various sights and a lot of skyscrapers. The top attraction is Melbourne’s Observation Deck. With 253 meters it is the southern hemisphere‘s highest office building.
The way with the elevator to the observation deck lasts 38 seconds. Many robot washing machines clean all its 13,000 windows.
Melbourne is also called „The Shopping Capital“. Because there you can find Australians biggest shopping centre – Myers.
It is very sporty town. A lot of events happen in the capital of Victoria like Formel 1, tennis and equestrian sport.